Pitfall II as an adaptation of the Arcade game over to the Amstrad CPC!

by Indie Retro News | Nov 13, 2025 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

In 1985 Sega released the sequel of Pitfall II: The Lost Caverns for the Arcade, which in itself was based upon Activision’s two home console games Pitfall! (1982) and Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (1984) for the Atari 2600. It was a scrolling platformer that also...

OUT NOW: TAITO Alpha Bartop Arcade

by Todd Friedman | Nov 12, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s

library of cartridgesOUT NOW: TAITO Alpha Bartop Arcade!  The newest member of the Alpha family joins the award-winning Street Fighter and Mega Man Bartop arcades… The TAITO Alpha Bartop Arcade is here, featuring 10 classic TAITO games, including BUBBLE BOBBLE,...

How I love the GameBoy – by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi

by Old School Gamer | Nov 10, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, Stern

The first time I encountered a Game Boy was not long after it came out. My family lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1989. Our friends were mostly Americans who attended an international school with us. Although video game systems and handhelds were not easily...

Elite – David Braben’s 8bit space combat trading simulator of Elite gets an Atari XL/XE port demo by reifsnyderb

by Indie Retro News | Nov 10, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Only just recently I was talking to a few friends about the original David Braben’s 8-bit space combat trading simulator of Elite, and how we’ve seen a few fan based remakes appear as well as improvements and ports to different 8bit systems. But this...

The Most Influential Basketball Games of All Time

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Nov 2, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

With basketball season officially underway, we here at Old School Gamer Magazine down the most influential roundball games of all time. From the first basketball game of all time on the Atari 2600 in 1978 to today, dozens of developers have tried their hand at the...

Geo’s Quest III part 2 – Final chapter of a graphic adventure game for the Amiga

by Indie Retro News | Oct 30, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you remember playing GWI’s adventure series of both Geo’s Quest Gateway to Nowhere, and Geo’s Quest 2 In Search of Queen Lorraine. Then you’ll be pleased to know that the developer has released the latest and final chapter in the series...