Old School Gamer Celebrates 5 Years and Wants to Raise It’s Game

by Old School Gamer | Sep 8, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Console/Handheld

Press Release About Kickstarter Old School Gamer has been publishing it’s retro gaming magazine for the last five years.  Covering video gaming from its beginnings in the 1970s until the late 1990s, Old School had published 29 issues and is due for it’s 30th issue to...

Freeway – An Atari 2600 to Atari XL/XE port by Glurk gets a release

by Indie Retro News | Sep 7, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

We’ve featured many Atari 2600 to C64 and Atari XL/XE conversions and ports throughout the years, from Spider Fighter, to Keystone Kapers and even our personal favorite Frostbite. Well here’s some more good news to get us through this Tuesday which has...

Retro Games Values are Increasing by the hundreds of dollars – Do you have one?

by Old School Gamer | Sep 3, 2022 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview

Have you ever wondered how retro games compare to modern games of today? Gaming has come a long way and in light of this, gaming experts at Crucial.com have looked compared data around retro vs modern games to find out, the value of retro consoles over time, the...

Tutankham – A C64 port of Tutankham, an arcade game developed by Konami in 1982.

by Indie Retro News | Aug 30, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Even more retro games to get through now, as thanks to a late hour heads up from Saberman, we’ve just been told LC-Games has released the new C64 game of ‘Tutankham’; A C64 port of Tutankham which was originally an Arcade game developed by Konami in...

Ambermoon.net – Open source remake of a fantastic CRPG gets a brand new 1.5.0 release!

by Indie Retro News | Aug 12, 2022 | 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Originally released in 1993 for the Amiga by Thalion Software, Ambermoon was the second part of an unfinished trilogy and sequel to Amberstar that was only released in Germany. In was an incredible RPG for its time, and featured 3D graphics that were considered...

Knights & Slimes – An in dev Arcade platformer for the C64 by Monte Boyd gets another tease

by Indie Retro News | Aug 6, 2022 | 1980s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Another C64 news story for you all, and one I think many will still be interested in playing when it gets an eventual release, is the upcoming game of Knights & Slimes for the C64 by Monte Boyd. Yes indeed thanks to another shout out on Twitter, not only is Monte...