Hyper Sports – An arcade Olympic themed sports game appears on the Amiga (AGA/ECS)

by Indie Retro News | May 8, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you haven’t broken your joystick just yet, with this latest release that is very possible! As after releasing the joystick and button bashing game called Track’N’Field, JOTD has now made available the first downloadable version of Konami’s...

Spider Maze 2 – Collect Diamonds and avoid Spiders in this new C64 game by The New Dimension in co-op with Blazon

by Indie Retro News | May 6, 2026 | 1980s, 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Saberman is on the ball again for the retro gaming video community, as just recently he’s uploaded a new gameplay video of a Commodore 64 game called ‘ Spider Maze 2 ‘ which was created by The New Dimension in co-op with Blazon. This game developed...

Empire Strikes Back – A C64 fan version by Megastyle has been released and it looks mighty impressive

by Indie Retro News | May 4, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Well, it’s that time of year again when we all suddenly become sci-fi nerds and amusingly misquote Star Wars for 24 hours, so to celebrate the geek in-joke turned global holiday that is Star Wars Day, we present you a brand new game for the C64 which is sure to excite...

Celeste – Rage inducing platformer for the Amiga by Paweł Juen Nowak

by Indie Retro News | May 3, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Developer Paweł Juen Nowak has began porting the challenging Pico8 platformer Celeste to the Commodore Amiga, designed to display using C2P techniques which necessitate a higher-powered processor for smooth gameplay. While running well on a 50MHz 060, the port...

Micro Karting – A work in progress nod to Super Mario Kart for the Amiga [UPDATE]

by Indie Retro News | May 2, 2026 | 1990s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you’ve never heard of Super Mario Kart, then I guess you were living in a cave, as this game series which first appeared in 1992 on the SNES, was one of the most addictive arcade style racing games ever to appear on a TV screen. So to see someone try to...

Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Dan Kingdom Talks GRIDbeat!

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | May 1, 2026 | 2020s, Gaming, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Interviews

Old School Gamer Magazine chats with GRIDbeat! Creative Director Dan Kingdom, who discusses the process to make the game a reality and what it is like to work with Acclaim. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was GRIDbeat! born? Dan Kingdom: GRIDbeat! grew out of a very...