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...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Ikari Warriors?

by Derek Slaton | Mar 1, 2022 | 1980s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Release Date: 1989 Publisher: Atari Controller: Joystick Players: 1 – 2 Genre: Arcade Alternate Title: N/A Model #: CX26177 Rarity: 5 Programmer: N/A This port of the arcade title is an admirable attempt at bringing it to the 2600. You are an Ikari Warrior, a...

Green Beret(Rush’n Attack) – Highly challenging retro classic finally arrives on the Amiga as an Arcade(ish) conversion!

by Indie Retro News | Feb 28, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Columns, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Green Beret was an action arcade game released by Konami in 1985. It is remembered for its Cold War setting and its reliance on the player using mainly a knife to dispatch enemies, although you were able to collect many different weapons including the flame thrower....

Old Towers – A great game by RetroSouls arrives on the Atari ST as a port by Andy Noble

by Indie Retro News | Feb 24, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, AtariST, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you’ve been following RetroSouls through the last couple of years, you would’ve known that they have released great games such as GLUF, Old Tower, Twinlight, Alter Ego, and even Tourmaline for the ZX Spectrum. Well if you remember one of those games as...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Mark Moore

by Todd Friedman | Feb 22, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Pinball

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Mark Moore, who currently is displayed on card number 3566, from the Superstars of 2021 Collection.  Mark has pinball in his blood. He has played since he was a little child. His favorite pinball of all time is Kiss. Growing up...

Tetris dotBAS – A new Tetris clone in development for the Amstrad CPC!

by Indie Retro News | Feb 20, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you loved the 1984 game of Tetris or the 1989 game of Columns , you’ll be pleased to know a brand new puzzle game inspired by those games has been teased for the Amstrad CPC developed by Francesc Alcaucer. This game as a heads up by XeNoMoRPH and named as...