Batter Up! Backyard Baseball is Available Now on Steam

by Old School Gamer | Jul 10, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Grab Your Gloves! It’s Game Time! The neighborhood baseball classic is back in action! Backyard Baseballis now available on Steam with more ways to play than ever before. Mega Cat Studios and Playground Productions invite you to take the field in 11 remastered...

Steel Ranger 2 – Hessian creators Covert Bitops are working on another fantastic C64 game!

by Indie Retro News | Jul 8, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you’ve ever heard of Covert Bitops then you would’ve known they released the fantastic action adventure game ‘ Hessian ‘ for the C64 in 2016. A game which blew us away with over 667 screens with specialized AI enemies found throughout that...

Germany’s Video Game Preservation Project Loses Public Funding

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jul 7, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Gaming

Germany-based, Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), whose goal was to assemble the world’s largest publicly accessible video game archive, has lost its public funding, leaving the future of the program in jeopardy, according to the Gameswirtschaft...

Thrilling Machine – by Noah LaPointe

by Old School Gamer | Jul 7, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview

When imagining the environmental sounds George Gomez must be used to, it may explain why he doesn’t rest: the erratic flicking of a pinball table’s flippers, the raucous ricocheting of a metal ball desperately trying to escape its containment, and electronic...

Brett’s Bargain Bin – by Brett Weiss

by Brett Weiss | Jul 5, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview

When it comes to cheap yet worthwhile Atari 2600 games, the usual suspects like Asteroids, Missile Command, and Space Invaders tend to dominate the conversation. And for good reason: they’re iconic, easy to find, and still offer plenty of arcade fun. In fact, many of...

Video Game of the Day – July 4th – Independence Day

by Todd Friedman | Jul 4, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld

Hello and welcome! My name is Katosepe and I’ll be your host for today’s Video Game of the Day! If I had more forethought, I would have recorded today’s episode yesterday so you could all hear it on July 4th but oh well. At least I’m recording this on the 4th so happy...