Butcher Billy’s Stranger Tales: The Second Season

by Old School Gamer | Jul 3, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Press Release

If you are a Stranger Things fan, then you’ll know the artwork from Brazilian designer/illustrator, Butcher Billy, is stunningly amazing! The timeline of Stranger Things is perfectly suited for us nostalgia seekers with nods to everything retro that we loved from the...

Donkey Kong 3 – Another classic Game & Watch title gets a BASIC conversion for the ZX Spectrum!

by Indie Retro News | Jul 1, 2022 | 1980s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Another day and another Game and Watch mention, as the previous one was called ‘Octopus’ which was ported over to multiple Amstrad systems, and this latest release called ‘Donkey Kong 3’ has been released for the ZX Spectrum and developed using...

Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair and Dragon’s Lair II available for the Apple IIgs!

by Indie Retro News | Jun 30, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Apple 2, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Now 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...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Air Raiders?

by Derek Slaton | Jun 29, 2022 | 1980s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Release Date: 1982 Publisher: M Network Controller: Joystick Players: 1 Genre: Shoot’em Up Alternate Title: N/A Model #: MT5861 Rarity: 3 Programmer: Larry Zwick Strap into the cockpit and take flight to engage in a not so thrilling dogfight against an entire enemy...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Commando?

by Derek Slaton | Jun 26, 2022 | 1980s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Publisher: Activision Release: 1988 Controller: Joystick Players: 1 – 2 Genre: Arcade Alternate Title: N/A Model # AK-043 Rarity: 3 Programmer: Mike Reidel Your mission is to infiltrate enemy territory, kill every soldier you find and blow up each of their eight...

Space Invaders – The all time classic game ‘Space Invaders’ arrives on the ZX Spectrum NEXT

by Indie Retro News | Jun 25, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Yet another Space Invaders game has appeared in our Indie Retro News inbox, as we’ve recently informed through Facebook, that the classic game of Space Invaders which was previously in development by SplinterGU for the ZX Spectrum NEXT, has now been released....