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...

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

by Indie Retro News | Jul 16, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie, 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...

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...