Sydney Hunter & The Yucatan Jungle – The most advanced ColecoVision game ever made (for the stock system) is coming this year!
In the early 80's many of us had the pleasure of playing the adventure platformer 'Montezuma's Revenge' on the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Sega Master System and even the ZX Spectrum (as Panama Joe). It combined treasure...
A Blast from the Past! Donkey Kong Country
In 1994 the first Donkey Kong Country came out on the Super NES. The game focuses on Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong, who must recover their stolen bananas from King K. Rool and the Kremlings. Each level is uniquely themed and consists of varying tasks such as...
Scramble Infinity – An incredible version of a 1980’s classic which is coming to a C64 near you soon!
I was just thinking to myself could this day get any better for the C64, and going by the latest update from Games That Weren't, it just has! Welcome to a new side scrolling Shoot 'em up for the C64 called 'Scramble Infinity'; A game which not only features amazing...
Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Time Pilot?
Publisher: Coleco Release: 1983 Controller: Joystick Players: 1 Genre: Shoot’em Up Alternate Title: N/A Model: # 2663 Rarity: 5 Programmer: Harley H. Puthuff, Jr. This is a slightly scaled down version of the arcade classic that really captures the spirit of the...
“In Memoriam” Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Ken Graham
Intro courtesy of Shawn Quinn: Many of us in the Houston area classic arcade and pinball community are mourning the passing of Ken Graham, who left us on the last day of 2021 after losing a bravely fought battle with cancer. Ken was one of the owners at The Game...
Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe?
Release Date: 1980 Publisher: Atari Controller: Joystick Players: 1 - 2 Genre: Brain Alternate Title: N/A Model #: CX2618 Rarity: 2 Programmer: Carol Shaw This unique take on the classic pen and paper game leaves a lot to be desired. If the cover is to be believed,...
Attack of the Petscii Robots – Action Adventure game from David Murray/8Bit Guy gets a Shareware version (C128/Pet/X16)
We have recently been contacted through Facebook, to tell you that the same creator of PLANET X3, who we know as David Murray/The 8bit guy, has not only made available the Action Adventure game of 'Attack of The Petscii Robots' for the Commodore PET, Commodore 128 and...
Snowed Under – A new charity game from Allan Turvey & Andy Johns for the ZX Spectrum
When it comes to announcing something from Allan Turvey, it's usually a new game that's just been announced such as the case with Asteroids RX, Percy Penguin or even Terrapins. But this time he's decided to do something different, as in relation to the upcoming...
Double Dragon – Work continues to bring an Arcade quality port of Double Dragon over to the Amiga
Even to this day, if you ask someone what they thought of Double Dragon, and they'd probably tell you of an awesome Arcade beat em up released in 1987, that gave you the option to play two twin martial artists who could kick, punch and throw enemies off scene through...
Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Air Raid?
Release Date: 1982 Publisher: Men-A-Vision Controller: Joystick Players: 1 Genre: Shoot’em Up Alternate Title: N/A Model #: M707 Rarity: 10 Programmer: Gary Kitchen With only a handful of copies known to exist, Air Raid is one of the rarest games for the 2600. This...
Five Underrated Game Boy Games You Must Play
The Game Boy has a massive library and because of that, there are a ton of games you definitely misses. Check out this handful of titles and thank us later. The Adventures of Star Saver: This is a unique little romp that has an awesome score and an old-school arcade...
WALTER DAY’S GAMING SUPERSTARS: VOLUME TWO Now Available!
Happy Holidays! WALTER DAY'S GAMING SUPERSTARS: VOLUME TWO Now Available! This book will only be available on Amazon and I will not have access to extra books to ship to you directly. The book ships all over the country as well as outside the US. Shipping will depend...
A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from Indie Retro News
Here we are again with another Christmas and what a year it has been, full of incredible retro games such as Snow Force, Briley Witch Chronicles, Scramble Infinity and Sonic The Hedgehog on the C64, to Turbo Tomato, The Shadows of Sergoth on the Amiga and even more...
Indie Retro News – C64 Game of The Year Award 2021 – VOTE NOW! (Winner announced 1st Jan 2022)
With one day left for 2021 and something I've personally not done on Indie Retro News before, I thought it was about time I also did an Indie Retro News game of the year award for the C64 with the winner being announced at some point on Jan 1st 2022. Yes we may get...
The Power of the Fist – NES Powerglove
Some call it a controller, some call it a peripheral, some even call it a gimmick. I would say it is all of these and more. The Nintendo PowerGlove is one of the most talked about pieces of the juggernaut system we know as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). ...
Krogharr – Inviyya creator’s upcoming Amiga game goes AGA and it looks great!
Right from the word go, we were one of the first gaming websites to give you the heads up about TIGERSKUNK's amazing Shoot 'em up of Inviyya; a game with amazing scrolling graphics, super action, great sound effects, and a real hark back to days of R-Type or...
Santa’s Rats Issue – An enjoyable yet challenging Arcade game for the C64 by Marco Giorgini and Andrea Capitani
With the end of the year fast approaching and Christmas slowly ending up at the back of our minds, there's still time for us to put in a few games on Indie Retro News that celebrate the festive season. One such game that was released a little while ago, with a...
Choctris – A Tetris clone for the Commodore Amiga gets a new version!
It's time to move away from the Platform genre and look towards classic Puzzle games for our retro fun, as if you loved the 1984 game of Tetris , you'll be pleased to know that as of today you can download the very latest Tetris clone of 'Choctris'. Yes indeed thanks...
Stunt Car Racer – A classic stunt car game for the C64 running super smooth with a SuperCPU!
Of all the games to appear to in the late 1980's, this in my opinion was one of the best stunt style racers, it had some of the craziest tracks and the ultimate track the "Ski Jump". What made it so good was not just the feeling of speed, but the thrill of...
iiRcade Review – Gunforce
Gunforce is a side-scrolling action shooting game produced by Irem for the arcades in 1991. This shoot em up game is perfect for the iiRcade hardware. It gives the true arcade feel as if you owned the game from the 1990's. GunForce is a multi-national army assembled...
Turbo Santa – Did you enjoy playing Turbo Tomato by NIVRIG GAMES? Then you’ll love this new festive game for the Amiga!
Prepare for all out entertainment especially if you have a Commodore Amiga at hand, as we've recently been informed via our good friend Nivrig Games who also designed the highly enjoyable and addictive game of 'Turbo Tomato', that as from right now you can play the...
Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Crash Dive?
Release Date: 1983 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Controller: Joystick Players: 1 - 2 Genre: Shoot’em Up Alternate Title: N/A Model #: 11031 Rarity: 5 Programmer: Bill Aspromonte This is a solid shooter and a nice addition to the 2600 game catalog. You are given control...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Nolan Bushnell
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Nolan Bushnell, who is displayed on card number 165, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Nolan can also be seen on card number 821 and 1333. Nolan is the founder of Atari and Check E’ Cheese as well as over 20 other...
Santa’s Workout – The first of many C64 games for Christmas, with Vector5games latest release!
With Christmas being a few days away you'd expect to see lots of Christmas themed games appearing on Indie Retro News in the lead up to the 25th. Well that's certainly happening this week, as the first game to be mentioned on our site is a Christmas game by...
Replacement Cases
I ran across a great vendor on Ebay that creates replacement cases for most retro games (CD version) PS1 , PS2, GameCube, XBOX and others. I wanted to pass along his link to you and spread the word. His prices are very reasonable and he can offer special like...
iiRcade Review – Stadium Hero ’96
Stadium Hero '96 was produced by Nihon Bussan/AV Japan in 1996.An excellent baseball game from Data East. The marquee has a "MLC" logo. MLC stands for "Mother Less Cassette". This arcade baseball game lets players select fictional teams from eight different countries...
Gelatino 2 – A colourful MSX 1 game which will arrive on your doorsteps before Christmas!
The MSX community are certainly no strangers to quality releases on the MSX especially with great games such as Westen House and The Fall of Prometheus. Well today's news is equally special for the MSX community, as we've recently found out through Facebook, that you...
Sonic The Hedgehog is coming to the C64 and C128 and it looks seriously cool! (REU expansion cartridge required)
In the early 90's I had the pleasure of playing the mind blowing platformer Sonic the Hedgehog on both the Sega Megadrive and Sega Master System. A game by Sega which featured a ring collecting blue hedgehog that could spin, run, jump and roll about at the fastest of...
BLIP! BLIP! – A Game?
I wanted to write about a unique game I purchased from eBay last year. It is one I think is the beginning of handheld gaming that we know today. There are many things that jump started the handheld gaming, but this device was something I may have missed or did not...
The Atari 2600 Joystick
The Atari 2600 “Joystick” to me is the father of them all. There have been controllers made before the little black stick with the red button, but this controller changed the way gaming was played on what is considered the birth of home console era. ...
Space Racing – This could be F-Zero on the ZX Spectrum 128k and it looks super awesome!
We've mentioned a lot of games entered into the ZX-DEV Media and Demakes competition from The Last Escape to Battle City ZX. But now as a complete surprise to us and one I think that will be a highlight for this December, is Voxel Tower's rather impressive looking...
No more blowing! Top Loader NES
It was on my birthday, October 18th, 1985 where console gaming changed forever. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) hit North America and the consoled world has never looked back. Millions of NES consoles were purchased, and ten of million number of NES carts...
HI-SCORE – A C64 game by Misfit with an awesome soundtrack by 8-bits high
Misfit is certainly no stranger to us on Indie Retro News, creating great games such as Cheese And Onion, Super Goatron and Pilot Attack to name but a few. But now thanks to a heads up by Saberman we've been told he's also released the challenging yet enjoyable space...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Gaspar Ferreiro
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Gaspar Ferreiro who currently is displayed on card number 3910, from the Superstars of 2021 Collection. Gaspar’s pinball game of choice is Slugfest. If he could design his own pinball machine, he would love to do either an 80’s...
Asteroids: Recharged Blasts Off Today!
Asteroids™: Recharged Explodes onto Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, PC, VCS Today 1980’s Arcade Classic Hyperspace Warps into the 21st Century with a Modern Touch NEW YORK — Dec 14, 2021 — Asteroids: Recharged, the modern co-op revival of the definitive arcade shooter from...
Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Fire Fighters?
Release Date: 1982 Publisher: Imagic Controller: Joystick Players: 1 Genre: Arcade Alternate Title: N/A Model #: IA3400 Rarity: 3 Programmer: Brad Stewart We will never forget ! (9/11) You are a one man fire brigade working the overnight shift in the big city. A call...
Five Underrated Sega Genesis Sports Games
Looking for something sporty to play during the cold Winter months on your trusty Sega Genesis? Let us help you. Sports Talk Baseball: With nearly every player in the MLB in this game in 1992, it was certainly a special title when it was originally released. Add in...
Five Sega Genesis Games Every Gamer Should Own
If you love the Sega Genesis, here are five games that you’ve got to have on your console. NHL 94: Why? It’s still, to this day, quite possibly the greatest hockey game ever released. Even with better visuals and deeper modes from its younger brothers and sisters,...
Robert Mooney and his Custom Machine by Michael Thomasson
The most memorable quote from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” In fact, most people in the know concerning pinball aren’t aware that the popular movie from 1986 received a...
Five Underrated 8-Bit Sports Games
Sports games truly blossomed on 16-bit consoles, but there were plenty of gems on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Here’s a handful to keep you busy this holiday season. RBI Baseball 2: Gone forever were those adorable sprites and that’s probably the thing that took...