Dragon’s Lair II Time Warp: Amiga Intro Animation redone frame by frame in Personal Paint by Hache

by Indie Retro News | Jul 25, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

I remember Dragon’s Lair very well, from the Amstrad version with the jumping of platforms or trying to stay on the spinning disk without being blown off, or the interactive animated version which appeared as a laserdisc in which you needed to press a specific...

Five Retro Game Industry Standards We’d Love to See Come Back

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jul 22, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Lists

The video game industry sure has changed since the ‘70s and ‘80s right? With micro-transactions and DLC, games change throughout development and release- a far cry from the old days. In this exclusive list, we old birds at Old School Gamer share five things we’d love...

Super Mario Bros. S – A collaborative fan game available as a download or browser play

by Indie Retro News | Jul 21, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

I have always had a soft spot for Super Mario Bros, ever since I first played it as a kid all those years ago in America on the NES. Its one of those timeless games that you never can get tired of. Its super simple to learn and control for new players and the gameplay...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Chase the Chuckwagon?

by Derek Slaton | Jul 19, 2022 | 1980s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Release Date: 1983 Publisher: Spectravision Controller: Joystick Players: 1 Genre: Arcade – Maze Alternate Title: N/A Model #: N/A Rarity: 8 Programmer: Mike Schwartz This is quite possibly the first (and only) example of a video game being based on a television...

1942 – Arcade quality port is still coming to the Amiga with new shown!

by Indie Retro News | Jul 18, 2022 | 1980s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

In 1984 a great shoot ’em up was released for the Arcades by Capcom and that game was 1942. A game in which you not only had to shoot down enemy planes including bombers, but you could also perform awesome rolls while collecting power ups. Thankfully this game...

1980’s “Spy Hunter’ is coming to the Amiga and it looks great!

by Indie Retro News | Jul 8, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you remember the 1983 game of ‘Spy Hunter’; An Arcade top down Action vehicle game that drew its inspiration from James Bond and was released on the Amstrad CPC, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, C64, Apple II, ColecoVision, IBM PC and...