Grinding: Mindless Filler, or A Different Kind of Fun?

by William Schwartz | Jan 27, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Console/Handheld, Early IBM DOS, Gaming, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

  With the appearance of the role-playing game on video consoles, a genre less about actual role-playing and more about navigating enemy dungeons via numbers rather than reflexes, we also saw the appearance of grinding. How grinding works is simple enough. If...

Intellivision Thunder Castle | Swords & Sorcery in an Ever-Changing Maze!

by GenX Grownup | Jan 25, 2025 | 1970s, 1980s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Stern

Thunder Castle is a 1986 maze video game for the Intellivision. The player controls a knight navigating three mazes, defeating enemies to progress. To defeat the enemies, the knight must interact with objects throughout the maze before interacting with them. The game...

Atari Gives End-of-Year 2024 Business Update

by Old School Gamer | Jan 17, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Stern

Company finishes 2024 with a slate of successful game releases; executes against retro-focused growth strategy NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — has...

Rolling Thunder – A classic Arcade game gets a big speed improvement from McGeezer (Amiga)

by Indie Retro News | Jan 12, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

McGeezer has been a name mentioned many times on Indie Retro News, as he has not only released some really amazing games such as the Arcade conversion of Rygar, the Arcade conversion of Turbo Sprint and Bomb Jack Beer Edition (link), but as from May or June he is also...

Pac-Man Resurgence: From Pixels to Reels – Exploring the Evolution of the Classic Game in Online Slots

by Old School Gamer | Jan 11, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Gaming, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Stern

After its 1980 release, Pac-Man became an international hit mainly due to its recognizable characters and easy gameplay. The iconic image of the yellow sphere with pixels traveling a maze came to represent the rapidly growing gaming sector. Since its release,...

Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand -HUGE Game Library!

by GenX Grownup | Jan 9, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Stern

Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today it has purchased the Intellivision brand and certain games from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. Atari will seek to expand digital and physical...