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Happy 40th Birthday Commodore Amiga 1000
My awesome Amiga, now all modded up with a Pistorm! (Not an A1000) It's a time to light those candles upon that tasty cake, as the Commodore Amiga 1000 is celebrating its 40th anniversary. That's right, it's 40 years to this day that the Amiga 1000 was launched. It's...
Putting the “You” in Utopia – by By Brian Lesyk
In the late ‘70s, Mattel Electronics’ Intellivision machine was carving out a respectable space among the dense pack of lesser-powered gaming consoles and the deluge of Pong clones that were rapidly flooding the marketplace. Distinguishing itself from the horde, the...
Galactic Panic – A classic point & click adventure, with nods to Lucasarts classics for the Atari ST!
For some reason this month there has been a surge in Adventure games for our retro computers (not that I'm complaining ;)). We've had Herra 47 : Midsummer Festival for the Commodore 64, and even the more recent announcement of Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the...
Flight Simulators on Atari – by Eugenio Anguiera
Flight simulator video games have existed in one form or another since the 70’s. When referring to flight simulator video games, we are talking about a simulation of a flight environment for non-official flight training and more as a form of entertainment or...
Console Purist – by Todd Friedman
What began as a childhood gift evolved into one of the largest personal video game collections in America. This is the story of a man, his consoles, and the lifelong quest to preserve gaming history. It all began in 1980, with a simple gift from a father to his...
Atari and Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. Reveal The Atari x PAC-MAN Collection Ahead of San Diego Comic Con Appearance
Celebrating a History of Collaboration and Coinciding with PAC-MAN’s 45th Anniversary, the Collection Features New Hardware, Classic and New Games and Limited-Edition San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive Cartridges To learn more about PAC-MAN’s 45th Anniversary celebration,...
Celebrating 25 Years of The Sims – by Anthony Ripo
Simulation games have been a staple of the video game industry for over four decades, giving the player the power to make important decisions on how to manage a given scenario. Utopia, released on the Intellivision in 1981, is recognized by Guinness World Records as...
Limited Run Games Turns Ten!
As you’re all probably aware, Limited Run Games is the industry leader in producing and distributing premium physical video games. Founded in 2015, the team has published over 1,000 physical games and soundtracks in addition to winning several awards for their bespoke...
Sim City – by John Michonski
In 1989, SimCity was released for DOS-compatible computers and Macintosh. With this release, millions of people got their first taste of the city-building genre, and one of the most legendary game development careers began. Simple at first glance, SimCity is a game...
From the Past to the Present – by Brian Chansy
Ask someone to recommend a management simulation video game and there is a fairly good chance that they would recommend Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon games. Considered among the most influential management simulation video games, the genre...
Commodore is Back from the Dead!
The Commodore brand carries a rich legacy and a devoted community that has never truly let go. What began as a line of home computers evolved into something far greater than anyone could have anticipated. Over the years, the brand changed ownership numerous...
A Look Back at Dynami Tracers
The Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom has long been a notorious device, one of the first examples of Internet enabled gaming that never left Japan. Emulating the Satellaview isn't difficult with modern technology, although it can be somewhat tedious...
A review of Dance Dance Revolution from Boss Fight Books
There is perhaps no image of the aughts era arcade quite as iconic as those giant Dance Dance Revolution machines, paradoxically because it's difficult to imagine anything quite so antithetic to the arcade experience prior to that point than dancing to often...
ModRetro adds new Chromatic color, five new games, and three new accessories to online store
On July 10th, ModRetro released several new products to its online shop, modretro.com. The most colorful of the set is a new colorway for the Chromatic handheld. The Cloud version of the Chromatic is physically identical to the existing six Chromatic handhelds...
Best Boxing Games of All Time
Believe it or not, but at one time, boxing was one of the biggest sports in the United States- even the world. Even though the sport isn’t nearly as entertaining as it used to be, video games on the sport have always maintained a comfortable position in video game...
Sinclair invents Gift Card size Pi® gaming PC
Grab & Go Gaming in a Retail Gift Card Form Factor with Arcade Games Pre-Installed and a Raspberry Pi® squeezed inside CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO Grant Sinclair, inventor of the IRIS eTrike® and nephew of British innovator and ZX Spectrum inventor, Sir Clive...
Most Influential Football Games of All-Time
Who Else Misses Football?! Football is an integral part of American culture, but it’s an even bigger part of video game history. From its roots on the Atari 2600 to the eight-bit classics that revolutionized the genre, football games are the rock that helps keep the...
ZPF – A new SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis game
Growing up I was team Sega and was in love with the Sega Genesis. I still play the classics like Altered Beast and Golden Axe. Coming soon there will be a new Sega Genesis game on the market for 2024. It is called ZPF. I was fortunate enough to get a Prototype...
Fast Food Dizzy 2 – An unofficial Amiga AGA sequel to Codemaster’s Fast Food Dizzy is getting a Big Box deluxe edition!
AcidBottle(Abgames) is certainly no stranger to creating quality releases for the Amiga, the Arcade to Commodore Amiga game of Breakthru and Wonder Boy are just two of the ones that stand out on IndieRetroNews. Well here are with another fantastic news story in...
AmiSeaFox – An Amiga tribute to the classic SeaFox from Amiten Games (JUNE UPDATE)
At first I couldn't understand why we had such an influx of Amiga game news in one weekend. Well it dawned on me, that on the 31st of May it was International Amiga Day! A day which is celebrated annually on May 31st to honor Jay Miner, who is considered the father of...
Amico Summer Update June 2025
Happy summer gaming, Amico family! We're thrilled to announce that three of our beloved games have officially launched on new platforms, bringing family-friendly fun to even more players around the world! Two of them are new to Amico Home™. All three Nintendo Switch...
Tassei Denki Time Crisis Kickstarter Project Septuples Initial Funding Request
On June 24th, Tassei Denki made an initial offering for the G'AIM'E Plug & Play Time Crisis Gun, a device which can play Time Crisis and other lightgun games of its era on a modern television display. Tassei Denki launched its initial offering on...
ROGUEish – This roguelike C64 game by Syntaxerrorsoftware looks pretty decent (UPDATE)
I do love a good roguelike, it's one of my favorite genres to play, especially when I'm delving deep into dark dungeons looking for decent loot and avoiding many of the nasties contained within. So if like me, you like that sort of gaming experience. Then make sure to...
Space Invaders – A C64 conversion of Taito’s Space Invaders by LC-Games
We've mentioned many Space Invader variants over the years, from Havie's Blitz Basic version of the game on the Amiga, to our personal favorite from Pink/Abyss called 'Tiny Invaders'. Well yet again we've been sent another version of Space Invaders for you to download...
