Paper Dreams: A History of Play-by-Mail Gaming

by Old School Gamer | May 8, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Press Release

Do you like cheering for the underdog? Do you like classic and retro gaming? Then you’ll love this book. Just like the young student decades ago who had to be cut off because he was using his lunch money for play-by-mail (PBM) games, some people are obsessed with...

Nightmare Busters Rebirth: Kickstarter Launch Date Revealed

by Todd Friedman | May 7, 2025 | 1980s, 2020s, Press Release

NIGHTMARE BUSTERS REBIRTH is coming to Kickstarter on May 13! From dream to reality Pix’n Love Games and Aurora Game Studio are proud to announce the upcoming Kickstarter launch of Nightmare Busters Rebirth, scheduled for May 13, 2025. This modern reimagining of the...

Empire Strikes Back – A C64 fan version by Megastyle has been released and it looks mighty impressive

by Indie Retro News | May 4, 2025 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Well, it’s that time of year again when we all suddenly become sci-fi nerds and amusingly misquote Star Wars for 24 hours, so to celebrate the geek in-joke turned global holiday that is Star Wars Day, we present you a brand new game for the C64 which is sure to excite...

Mike Mech 2 – Another high quality Arcade C64 game you should play from LC-Games

by Indie Retro News | May 2, 2025 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

In August of 2022, I announced the release of LC-Games high quality title of ‘Mike Mech’ for the Commodore 64. A game in which you had to battle aliens that have invaded your spaceship. Well fast forward to this week however, and I’ve just found out,...

The First Ever Stern Pinball Factory Tour Video?

by Knapp Arcade | Apr 27, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, KnappArcade, Pinball

Earlier today I thought to myself, I wonder what would happen if I scrolled back to Stern Pinball’s first Facebook post. Yes, these are the sorts of things that go through my mind lol.   So I figured out to go back in time…all the way back to...

Burger Time – An Arcade like conversion for the Commodore Amiga 500 by JOTD

by Indie Retro News | Apr 26, 2025 | 1980s, 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Some more Amiga news for you all, as we’ve just been given the heads up, that JOTD who was behind great conversions such as Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, Super Bagman, Galaxian500, Pooyan, Super Xevious, and the upcoming Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja, has now turned his...