Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Heikki Repo Talks Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jul 1, 2025 | Gaming, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Indy Tools By Platform, Interviews

Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Heikki Repo, creative director and co-founder of Cornfox & Brothers and the creator behind Oceanhorn to find out what makes this new dungeon explorer a special one. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was this game born? Heikki...

Frogger RX – This Arcade-like version of Frogger for the ZX Spectrum is looking good! (+Demo)

by Indie Retro News | May 19, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Indy Tools By Platform

When I was growing up I really loved playing the 1981 Arcade game of Frogger by Konami. It had loads of charm, great gameplay for kids and it really made you feel for the safety of those little green frogs as they hopped their way across a busy road, then across a...

S.C.I.O.N – SausageWareGames is set to release another great ZX Spectrum game via BitmapSoft

by Indie Retro News | May 16, 2025 | 1980s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Indy Tools By Platform

It felt like it was only just yesterday, that I spoke about SausageWareGames awesome reimagining of Knightmare for the ZX Spectrum.  A much deserved and more enjoyable Knightmare game, which in itself is based around a kids TV show from the 1980’s. Well this...

Street Fighter II 128K – The REAL CPC Edition shown off in this gameplay footage [2021 UPDATE]

by Indie Retro News | May 13, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Indy Tools By Platform

This year has just been fantastic for the Amstrad CPC with a ton of Amstrad homebrew games to spoil us, but even though we had the incredible Amiga to Amstrad port of Pinball Dreams, we haven’t finished with the Amstrad yet. Now you may remember our big...

Atari 2600 Keystone Kapers from Activision | The Third Time REALLY IS the Charm!

by GenX Grownup | Feb 27, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, GenX Grownup, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform, Stern

Atari 2600 Keystone Kapers from Activision | The Third Time REALLY IS the Charm! Kitchen designed the game after working on Atari 2600 games Space Jockey and a port of Donkey Kong. He wanted to develop a game similar to the latter game, and began developing what would...

Atari’s Yars Rising: Where’s All the FAN HATE Coming From?

by GenX Grownup | Feb 16, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform, Stern

Fan reaction to the recently-announced Yars Rising has been surprisingly divisive. It’s been accused of being too talky, too different, and “not Yars” at all. In this editorial, Jon shares his thoughts on Yars Rising and the negative fan feedback. From the renowned...