Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Greg Sakundiak

by Todd Friedman | Mar 10, 2022 | 1980s, 2010s, 2020s, Interviews

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Greg Sakundiak who is displayed on card number 84, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection.  Greg is also on trading card number 3359. Greg was a member of the 1984 U.S. National Video Game Team and broke many records back then...

Angels – Another amazing release for the ZX Spectrum by ZOSYA entertainment

by Indie Retro News | Mar 8, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

ZOSYA entertainment (team) have made some great games throughout the years, games such as Drift!, Valley of Rains and even Travel Through Time Volume 1 which have all been featured on Indie Retro News. Well it looks as if they haven’t finished with the speccy...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Spy Hunter?

by Derek Slaton | Mar 7, 2022 | 1980s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Publisher: Sega Release: 1984 Controller: Joystick Players: 1 Genre: Shoot’em Up Alternate Title: N/A Model: # 011-01 Rarity: 6 Programmer: Jeff Lorenz Dual Controller Module, basically a piece of plastic This port of the arcade classic is scaled down, but passable....

Knightmare – HOT NEWS as an Amiga port of a classic MSX game by Konami gets a release!

by Indie Retro News | Mar 5, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you remember the 1986 MSX game of Knightmare, then you might like this hot news story that has just reached our inbox, as we’ve recently been informed by a good friend of ours on Facebook, that Hoffman finally has finally released the Amiga port of that...

Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection (Switch/PS4) Pre-order

by Old School Gamer | Mar 3, 2022 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Press Release

Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection in Limited Boxed Editions! Six games – 21 versions – In one collection Stuttgart, March 3rd 2022 – Publisher Strictly Limited Games is looking forward to the pre-order start for the Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection...

PETSCII Portal – An inspiration to Valve’s Portable arrives on the C64 and Commodore PET

by Indie Retro News | Mar 2, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

For those of you who have played Valve’s hit game of Portal might like this early hour news story, as we’ve recently been informed via CSDb, that if you head on over to the itch page below, you can  download either the Commodore PET or C64 version of...