Stern Pinball Production Schedule: Comic Star Wars is Back

by Knapp Arcade | Jan 8, 2025 | 1980s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, KnappArcade, Pinball, Stern

I’m sitting here with no Internet or television, so I figured why not use my cell phone to write another article. I just saw a Facebook post from the distributor Mad Pinball (https://www.madpinball.com) staring that the much requested Comic Edition of Stern Pinball’s...

Berzerk: An Arcade Dream Come True

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jan 3, 2025 | 1980s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Stern

Berzerk is one of the first video games in the history of the industry to truly live up to its name. A 2D shooter that inspired classic games the likes of Robotron 2084 and Smash TV, it was a massive success in arcades across the United States well before iconic games...

Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside BOKURA: planet

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jan 1, 2025 | 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Interviews, The Story Of...

Old School Gamer Magazine chats with BOKURA: planet developer Tokoronyori to find out all about the fun adventure/puzzle game with retro visuals. About: BOKURA: planet: BOKURA: planet, the sequel to the reality-bending co-op-only adventure with more than half a...

Old Towers – RetroSouls seriously cool ZX Spectrum game arrives on the Famicom/NES with a version 1.1

by Indie Retro News | Jan 1, 2025 | 1990s, 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you’ve been following RetroSouls for awhile you would’ve known they have released games such as GLUF, Old Tower, Twinlight, Alter Ego, and even Tourmaline for the ZX Spectrum. Well today as thanks to a heads up via Facebook, we have been told that they...

Defective $1000 Atari XP Carts; the State of Modern Atari | An Editorial

by GenX Grownup | Dec 30, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Stern

About two weeks ago, a user on X by the name of Cear Dragon posted that two of their limited AtariXP carts – Haunted House & Crystal Castles – were defective. Haunted House, he claimed, had the PCB inserted backwards and Crystal Castles, he said, was buggy and...

Lord of the Orb – XaVeR adds even more levels to a classic 1985 game by Antic Software

by Indie Retro News | Dec 29, 2024 | 1980s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Here on Indie Retro News we do love writing about the Atari XL/XE, I mean seriously we can’t stop featuring the latest games released for this system. Well here we are with another story sent to us by Saberman, and it’s the latest new level update for the...