Atari 2600 Starmaster: Activision’s Take on an Atari’s First-Person Space Shooter

by GenX Grownup | Jun 17, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, GenX Grownup

Starmaster is a video game written for the Atari 2600 by Alan Miller and published in June 1982 by Activision. The game is similar to Atari 8-bit family game Star Raiders. Starmaster was not ported to other systems, but has been re-released in collections such as...

Reading the Classics – From Back in the Day to Today – By Leonard Herman, the Father of Video Game History

by Leonard Herman | Jun 16, 2024 | 1980s, Columns, Magazine Preview

  Ever since the world’s first two videogame magazines, Great Britain’s Computer and Video Games and the United States’ Electronic Games, debuted two weeks apart in November 1981, printed videogame magazines have basically come in four flavors. General: The...

Skald: Against the Black Priory – A dark fantasy game inspired by classic RPG’s available now!

by Indie Retro News | Jun 15, 2024 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

In the 80’s many of us had the pleasure of playing Ultima IV on the C64, it was arguably one of the best RPG’s ever released which featured a top down playing field with lush landscapes, dungeons to explore, characters to traverse with and many enemies to...

Genesis – A rather cool Arcade Shoot ’em up for the ZX Spectrum by Retroworks

by Indie Retro News | Jun 12, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Retroworks are a group of very talented European programmers who make some excellent games for some of our favourite retro computers including the Spectrum, Msx and Amstrad cpc. The Arcade Shoot ’em up ‘Genesis’ for the ZX Spectrum 128k is certainly...

Popeye VBXE – An arcade port, but this time for the Atari XL/XE with VBXE! (RC1)

by Indie Retro News | Jun 5, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Now here’s a blast from the past, as we’ve just been informed by Liqmatrix, that the classic Arcade game of ‘Popeye’, has been released as an RC1 build for the Atari XL/XE with a VBXE as an Arcade conversion by woj. In a similar vein to Donkey...

Heroes of Gaming Podcast

by Todd Friedman | Jun 4, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Podcast of the Week

Welcome to the International Award Winning Podcast Series The Heroes of Gaming Podcast!   Conversations with the REAL HEROES of Gaming! From Indie to AAA, every genre, and across cultures we speak  with the Creators, Concept Artists, Composers, Programmers, and...