by Indie Retro News | Jul 20, 2022 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
Wonder Boy is a game designed by Ryuichi Nishizawa which started its life as a skateboard rock jumping and axe bashing platformer, that later became the great adventure platformer with RPG elements known as ‘ Wonderboy in Monster Land ‘. Both of these...
by Indie Retro News | Jul 18, 2022 | 1980s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
In 1984 a great shoot ’em up was released for the Arcades by Capcom and that game was 1942. A game in which you not only had to shoot down enemy planes including bombers, but you could also perform awesome rolls while collecting power ups. Thankfully this game...
by Indie Retro News | Jul 16, 2022 | 1990s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
Hello everyone and welcome back to Retro Freak Reviews. Today, we’ll look at an iconic and influential title that has been on my backlog for several years. I’m talking about the original Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider is an action/adventure game developed by Core Design and...
by Indie Retro News | Jul 12, 2022 | 1970s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
Even more C64 games to get through today, as trawling through the CSdb database we’ve come across a new C64 game as a preview called ‘Riviera Story’ by Bladawietz(?). This game available to try, looks to be an Arcade platformer in which you play as...
by Indie Retro News | Jul 10, 2022 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
Possibly the last news story for Saturday and one I think many people might be interested in playing when it gets an eventual release, is the upcoming game of Knights & Slimes for the C64 by Monte Boyd. Yes indeed thanks to a recent shout out on Twitter, not only...
by Indie Retro News | Jul 9, 2022 | 1990s, AtariST, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
I can say for sure there’s probably not many of you that haven’t heard of ‘Metal Slug’, a game in a series of games that are well known in the community, going back to the days of the Neo Geo system. This game has plenty of humor, while...