Berzerk – Classic 1980’s Arcade game by Stern gets a C64 Conversion v1.1 update via Arlasoft!

by Indie Retro News | Jun 16, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

A Monday morning news story, as trawling through the CSdb website we’ve just found out that Arlasoft, who was behind great Arcade conversions such as Donkey Kong Jr, Fastfood, Galaga and Galaxian DX has released a new 1.1 update to his unofficial port of the...

Pacman – An awesome Arcade conversion of a classic game arrives on the C64!

by Indie Retro News | Jun 11, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

It wasn’t long ago now that here on Indie Retro News, we did multiple features of both the hit classic’s Pac-Man and Ms Pacman over to the Amiga by JOTD as two great Arcade conversions. Well here we are with another Pacman game! As thanks to Per Ola...

New Rally-X – An Arcade conversion of Rally X for the C64 is in the works and it’s fab!

by Indie Retro News | May 31, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

It wasn’t too long ago that many of us had the pleasure of playing Allan Turvey’s Terrapins RX; a Rally X Remix demo which was based on the 1980 game by Namco and official conversion Maze Death Race which was released later in 1983 by PSS for the ZX...

Farawaydius – A super tiny Gradius inspiration for the C64 gets a preview

by Indie Retro News | Apr 9, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

We’ve just received some rather interesting news from a good friend of ours, especially if you’ve got a C64 or emulator at hand, as if you loved playing the classic game of Gradius/Nemesis; a side scrolling shoot-em-up that was originally released as a...

Polar Bear in Space! – An Action packed game through Psytronik Software and RGCD gets a C64 release

by Indie Retro News | Apr 4, 2022 | 1970s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

What a great December this is turning out to be and it looks like the C64 goodness hasn’t finished with us yet. As trawling through Facebook, we have just found out that the previously announced in development game of ‘Polar Bear in Space!’ is now...

PETSCII Portal – An inspiration to Valve’s Portable arrives on the C64 and Commodore PET

by Indie Retro News | Mar 2, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

For those of you who have played Valve’s hit game of Portal might like this early hour news story, as we’ve recently been informed via CSDb, that if you head on over to the itch page below, you can  download either the Commodore PET or C64 version of...