Looking Back at Dossun! Ganseki Battle

by William Schwartz | Feb 24, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Gaming

  For almost as long as there have been puzzle games, there have been puzzle fighters. The two-player version of games like Tetris and Puyo Puyo generally work by having garbage pieces added to the other player’s screen whenever one player clears a lot of...

Lock’n’Chase – An Arcade port of the 1981 Data East Corporation game for the ZX Spectrum (Now Free!)

by Indie Retro News | Feb 23, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Here we are with another great conversion, because if you remember playing the 1981 Arcade game called Lock ‘n Chase, then you may be interested to learn that while the game was unofficially converted over to the Atari 5200, Amiga, and C64 throughout the last...

JAWS Retro Edition

by Todd Friedman | Feb 22, 2026 | 1990s, 2020s, Reviews

A re-release of the 1987 NES Jaws game with modern quality-of-life upgrades (save anywhere, rewind, music player, trophies/achievements, gallery). Includes two modes: Retro Edition – faithfully plays the original 2D action with enhancements. Enhanced Edition – a...

Pjusk – A puzzler from Zooperdan for the Commodore Amiga [UPDATE]

by Indie Retro News | Feb 22, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

While many of you are looking forward to playing the finished version of ‘RallyXSE’, there’s another game that’s worth checking out by the same developer, especially if you like puzzle games, is Zooperdan’s Amiga game of...

Mega M.I.L.V – Bullet hell Amiga shooter by GoldenCode gets new gameplay footage

by Indie Retro News | Feb 19, 2026 | 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Throughout 2024 I’ve been keeping you up to date about Golden Code’s awesome looking Danmaku shooter of ‘MEGA MILV’. A game that doesn’t just feature decent graphics, but more bullets and lasers than you can handle all running on a stock...

Sega on NEC: Arcade Classics on the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16

by Marcus Albers | Feb 18, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Console/Handheld

During my college years, I transitioned from exclusively gaming on computers like the Commodore 64 and Amiga. In so doing, I found myself drifting toward the underdog systems of the time, like the Sega Master System and, eventually, the Atari Jaguar. Another underdog...