Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Andreas Koch Talks Dustwind: Resistance

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | May 14, 2025 | 2020s, Gaming, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Interviews

Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Z Software’s Andreas Koch, who discusses the upcoming release of Dustwind: Resistance. Check out the game on Steam Here or on the PlayStation Store Here and the new DLC of the original, here! About Dustwind: Resistance: Dustwind:...

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

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...

Grind – An epic first person shooter for Amiga 500 (512k CHIP and 1mb OTHER ram) gets another update! *wip*

by Indie Retro News | May 12, 2025 | 1980s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you’re looking for more gaming news on this upcoming first person shooter of ‘Grind’ for the Commodore Amiga 500 and above. Then we have just been informed by Saberman, that not only does this work in progress game have a brand new DevArena map...

A Beat ’em up platformer is in the works by Basement Ape for the Amiga

by Indie Retro News | May 6, 2025 | 2000s, 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

A bit of a short news story for this one, as trawling through Facebook, we’ve found out through Earok who created the Scorpion Engine, that Basement Ape is working on what looks to be a new beat ’em up platformer for the Commodore Amiga, using yes you...

Mike Mech 2 – Another high quality Arcade C64 game you should play from LC-Games

by Indie Retro News | May 2, 2025 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

In August of 2022, I announced the release of LC-Games high quality title of ‘Mike Mech’ for the Commodore 64. A game in which you had to battle aliens that have invaded your spaceship. Well fast forward to this week however, and I’ve just found out,...

A review of Chantey for the Chromatic

by William Schwartz | May 1, 2025 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Reviews

  I’ve never been a fan of open world game design. The reason is simple- I get lost very easily. This is probably why I tend to prefer retro games over modern ones in the first place, open world design being better facilitated by more advanced hardware....