Black Dawn TechnoMage – The next Amiga AGA game in the Black Dawn Saga gets a demo!

by Indie Retro News | Feb 7, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

We’ve featured many Dungeon Crawlers on Indie Retro News, from Black Dawn Rebirth which is a high grade crawler as the 7th episode of the Black Dawn Dungeon Crawler/RPG series by Colin Vella, Shaun Watters, Ten Shu and Mike Richmond. To ‘ The Shadows of...

PAC-MAN – Another ZX Spectrum version of Pac Man appears!

by Indie Retro News | Feb 5, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

There have been many Pac-Man games mentioned on Indie Retro News, from Jr. Pac-Man on the Intellivision, a Pac-Man game on the Pico-8, and even the latest Pac-Hack on the ZX Spectrum (All of these vary in style to the 1980’s hit classic that can still be found...

Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon – a book review by Ryan Burger

by Ryan Burger | Feb 4, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Reviews

Over the last ten years I have accumulated around 150 books and nearly that many magazine issues (many of which we have the rights to make available to you with your account at OldSchoolGamer.Com) all about retro video gaming. In that time, I have NEVER seen a single...

HOT News as ‘L’abbaye Des Morts’ NES port is available as a digital download!

by Indie Retro News | Feb 1, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you’ve been following Indie Retro News through these last few years, you would’ve known about Locomalito’s awesome retro styled platformer ‘L’Abbaye des Morts’; a game which not only appeared on the PC, but as a release on the ZX...

Amidar500 – A 1980’s Arcade and 2600 game gets an Amiga conversion by JOTD

by Indie Retro News | Feb 1, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

JOTD is certainly making a name for himself here on Indie Retro News, creating awesome Arcade like conversions of games such as Ms Pacman and Pacman 500, and even the rebuilt & adapted to Amiga AGA ripped from Supercars International 1996 as Supercars 2 AGA. Well...

VIV SAVAGE: By the author formerly known as THE JADED GAMER

by Old School Gamer | Jan 29, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview

Gee, I can’t play Guitar Hero… or Rock Band… or any other guitar game. Why? Because I’ve played guitar in real rock bands for about 50 years and, to be honest, it’s a miracle I’m still alive. The one thing I always noticed about guitar games is that they leave out a...