Nothing – The speed and performance are unprecedented on a ZX Spectrum 128k in this new game demo!

by Indie Retro News | Feb 10, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

We’ve been flooded with awesome news today, from Sonic on the C64 to the latest Battle City on the ZX Spectrum. Well once again we are going back to the ZX Spectrum for some more awesome news, as thanks to Saberman contacting us recently, he has told us that...

Target Renegade Remix – A classic beat ’em up coming to the Commodore Amiga gets a new tease

by Indie Retro News | Feb 8, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

In 1988 Ocean Software ( Imagine Label ) released a fine beat em up for the Amstrad CPC, C64 and ZX Spectrum. It was a great title that featured both single player and two player fighting with you playing as street fighters known only as Renegade in a revenge against...

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...