Five Retro Football Games That Still Rock

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Sep 7, 2022 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

With NFL season almost here, Old School Gamer counts down five pigskin games over 20 years old that still play great. NFL Gameday 98: The first game to truly dethrone the Madden series, those polygon graphics and awesome AI set a high standard for all the games that...

Freeway – An Atari 2600 to Atari XL/XE port by Glurk gets a release

by Indie Retro News | Sep 7, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

We’ve featured many Atari 2600 to C64 and Atari XL/XE conversions and ports throughout the years, from Spider Fighter, to Keystone Kapers and even our personal favorite Frostbite. Well here’s some more good news to get us through this Tuesday which has...

Karate Champ – A 1980’s Arcade fighting game by JOTD for the Commodore Amiga gets an update!

by Indie Retro News | Sep 6, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you remember the 1980’s game of ‘Karate Champ; An Arcade fighting game that was released in the Arcades and later the Apple II, C64, NES, Virtual Console, iOS via Data East, then you might like this latest Amiga news story. As Jotd has released a new...

RiverRaid Reloaded v1.1 – An updated River Raid clone for the Amiga 500 and up!

by Indie Retro News | Sep 5, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

While many of you have already played Project R3D’s River Raid style game of ‘ Bridge Strike ‘, you might also interested to know that as of today, Matze1887 has released an update to his previously released River Raid clone of ‘ RiverRaid...

Retro Games Values are Increasing by the hundreds of dollars – Do you have one?

by Old School Gamer | Sep 3, 2022 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview

Have you ever wondered how retro games compare to modern games of today? Gaming has come a long way and in light of this, gaming experts at Crucial.com have looked compared data around retro vs modern games to find out, the value of retro consoles over time, the...

Lemmings – Deater has released a proof of concept of Lemmings for the Apple II!

by Indie Retro News | Sep 3, 2022 | 1980s, 1990s, Apple 2, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Lemmings was a game published by Psygnosis way back in the early 90’s for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC and regarded by many as one of the greatest games ever, especially as it featured many blue, green haired Lemmings that could be blown up, ripped apart and...