Holy Heroes – Coming soon to Steam

by Old School Gamer | Jul 30, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Press Release

The game Holy Heroes was conceived out of a passion for Dungeon Master (MSX), 1986, ASCII – Eiichi Saida. The production of Holy Heroes was meticulously crafted to stay true to the DM niche, preserving excellent gameplay as much as possible. However, various...

Ami-H.E.R.O – An Amiga game inspired by Activision’s 8bit game H.E.R.O gets a much needed update

by Indie Retro News | Jul 24, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Ask anyone about H.E.R.O, and I’m sure many would share their memories about this great game. A game which was released way back in the 1980’s for the Atari 800/2600, 7800, ColecoVision, C64, C128 and ZX Spectrum! Well if you do remember it and would like...

Antstream Arcade Retro Gaming History II: The Super Game Boy

by Antstream Blog | Jul 22, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Antstream

It seemed like the perfect gaming idea – take the hugely popular Nintendo Game Boy and enable gamers to combine its games with the also-hugely popular Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Antstream Arcade digs into the archives to unearth the history of Nintendo’s...

A Look Back at Earthworm Jim 2

by William Schwartz | Jul 17, 2024 | 1990s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Reviews

A lot of what resonates about retro video games is their degree of nonsense- weird design quirks that might have made sense to the original programmers, but certainly not to anyone else, and are only slightly more bizarre in retrospect than they were in their original...

2005 Mobile game ‘Doom RPG’ comes over to the Amiga 1200 and above

by Indie Retro News | Jul 16, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Here we are with another special announcement, as if any of you remember the 2005 mobile phone game of ‘Doom RPG’; a game developed by Fountainhead Entertainment combining the Doom first-person shooter franchise with role-playing video game elements. Then...

Desolator & One Arrive On Antstream

by Antstream Blog | Jul 15, 2024 | 1990s, Antstream, Console/Handheld

Shoot down alien craft or fire an arm-cannon in this week’s two new titles. Two more new titles come to the Antstream library this week. Defend the Energiser and shoot down alien craft in Desolator (MSX) and find out just what is going on, while firing an arm-cannon,...