X-Out: Resurfaced – A 90’s Shoot ’em up is getting a modern overhaul this Feb 20th!

by Indie Retro News | Mar 8, 2025 | 1970s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Shoot em ups have never gone out of fashion, there’s something to be said about blasting waves of enemies on screen, while collecting wicked power ups and listening to that thumping soundtrack. Thankfully one such team likes to keep the shoot em up goodness...

Docsters Digger – A Bonus C64 game released with Mancave in 2019 gets a Plus/4 port by 220 Volt Team (220V)

by Indie Retro News | Mar 7, 2025 | 1970s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

During 2019 Psytronik Software released(link) a C64 game by Megastyle called ‘ Mancave ‘; a game which follows the hilarious adventures of Richard Morningwood who has the unfortunate task of gathering up the pages of some rather naughty magazines that have...

ROLAND RETIRES – Arnold’s return with an adventure to the “Old School” for the Amstrad CPC!

by Indie Retro News | Mar 5, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you owned an Amstrad CPC back in the day, you would’ve played at least one Roland game from the Amsoft pack. Either Roland Ahoy, Roland on the Ropes, Roland in the Caves or even one of the rarer titles in my personal collection, Roland on the Run. So named...

Tetris Championship Edition – A brilliant MOD of the classic Tetris 2 on the ZX Spectrum [UPDATE]

by Indie Retro News | Mar 2, 2025 | 1970s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Oh joy of joys, if you loved the 1984 game of Tetris or the 1989 game of Columns , you’ll be pleased to know a brand new puzzle overhaul of Tetris 2 by František Fuka has been released for the ZX Spectrum. This excellent game that was originally released for the...

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, GenX Grownup, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, 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...

Plyuk – Another unique ZX Spectrum 128k game from RetroSouls

by Indie Retro News | Feb 24, 2025 | 1980s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

While RetroSouls has released many games such as GLUF, Old Tower and Alter Ego, one of the more unique games they released, was a game called Ringo. What made this game unique was the fact that it was one of the first games to use their new ‘experimental...