Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Paul E. Niemeyer

by Todd Friedman | Jul 11, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Paul E. Niemeyer, who currently is displayed on card number 4113, from the Superstars of 2022 Collection.  Paul’s career started back in 1982 at Bally/Midway. Paul displayed his artwork talent on dozens of games like Tapper,...

Binary Battle – A unique take on the Dungeon Crawler experience for the C64/Plus4!

by Indie Retro News | Jul 10, 2024 | 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

We’ve featured many Dungeon Crawlers over the years, from ones such as Eye of the Beholder, with its first person grid based movement, to the top down turn based ones such as Descending Dungeons. This game however called ‘Binary Battle’ by Haplo and...

This Week’s New Games: Stone Protectors & Solaris

by Antstream Blog | Jul 8, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Antstream, Console/Handheld

Fight reptilian aliens in Stone Protectors and search for the legendary planet in Solaris. Two new titles once again join the Antstream library this week. Retro gamers can enjoy some beat ‘em up action with a quirky cast of rock musicians in Stone Protectors...

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

by Old School Gamer | Jul 4, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade

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...

An interview with Dustin Hubbard of Gaming Alexandria

by William Schwartz | Jul 2, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Interviews, Retro Computing, The Story Of...

The history of retro gaming isn’t an especially long one, only going back maybe fifty years, at least if we limit ourselves to retro games as being computers rather than just complex machines. Preservation of this material can be challenging and thankless. All...

Gridlock – A recommended game by Megastyle for your Commodore 64

by Indie Retro News | Jun 24, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Night Mission Pinball Extended wasn’t the only game to grace our Commodore 64 screens this weekend, as looking through my emails earlier today, I saw that Megastyle had released the C64 sliding puzzle styled game of Gridlock. A game in which the object of each...