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Antstream Arcade Retro Gaming History II: The Super Game Boy
It seemed like the perfect gaming idea – take the hugely popular Nintendo Game Boy and enable gamers to combine its games with the also-hugely popular Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Antstream Arcade digs into the archives to unearth the history of Nintendo’s...
PETSCII Wizard of Wor – A classic Arcade game in PETSCII is coming to the Commodore Plus/4, C64 and CBM PET
Commodore owners are going to love this news story that we've just come across on Facebook. As if you remember playing and hopefully enjoying the 1980's Arcade game of Wizard of Wor, which also appeared on the Atari 8-bit, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Bally Astrocade and...
Saboteur – The Sequel to Yars’ Revenge
When Atari released the Saboteur as a 2600 cartridge we had an opportunity to ask Howard Scott Warshaw some questions about the Yars universe and the sequel’s place in the timeline. Background: Completed in 1983, Saboteur was meant to be a fast-following sequel to...
A Look Back at Earthworm Jim 2
A lot of what resonates about retro video games is their degree of nonsense- weird design quirks that might have made sense to the original programmers, but certainly not to anyone else, and are only slightly more bizarre in retrospect than they were in their original...
New To Antstream This Week: Megalopolis SOS & Snowboard Championship
Strap on your board and head down the mountain, or save Earth’s cities from alien attack in this week’s new titles. Two more new games come to Antstream this week. Shoot down alien ships in Magalopolis SOS (MSX) and master the slopes in Snowboard Championship...
2005 Mobile game ‘Doom RPG’ comes over to the Amiga 1200 and above
Here we are with another special announcement, as if any of you remember the 2005 mobile phone game of 'Doom RPG'; a game developed by Fountainhead Entertainment combining the Doom first-person shooter franchise with role-playing video game elements. Then as of today...
Desolator & One Arrive On Antstream
Shoot down alien craft or fire an arm-cannon in this week’s two new titles. Two more new titles come to the Antstream library this week. Defend the Energiser and shoot down alien craft in Desolator (MSX) and find out just what is going on, while firing an arm-cannon,...
Retaliate Blasts onto Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation – Available Now!
Kalona, IA - July 15, 2024 – Today, Romans I XVI Gaming is thrilled to announce the launch of the retro-inspired space shooter, Retaliate, now available on Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation. Dive into an intergalactic adventure where strategy meets action, and your...
An Interview with Yars’ Revenge creator – Howard Scott Warshaw
When the amazing team at Digital Eclipse created the playable documentary Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration they had the opportunity to interview Howard Scott Warshaw, who shared stories from his time at Atari and his work on Yars’ Revenge. Your browser does not...
Multimorphic Provides Update on The Princess Bride Pinball Production
This afternoon, Multimorphic’s Gerry Stellenberg sent out an update on the Company’s upcoming P3 pinball module, The Princess Bride. They currently estimate that Batch 1 of full Princess Bride machines and modules will begin to roll off of the production line “in...
Atari Opens Enrollment for its 2024 Summer Camp Program
NEW YORK, July 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atari® — one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — today announced open enrollment for Atari Summer Camp, an eight week online celebration of retro gaming and everything 1980s....
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Paul E. Niemeyer
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Paul E. Niemeyer, who currently is displayed on card number 4113, from the Superstars of 2022 Collection. Paul’s career started back in 1982 at Bally/Midway. Paul displayed his artwork talent on dozens of games like Tapper,...
Spider: An Amazing Arachnid Adventure
The mid-‘90s were a transitional time in gaming. Make no mistake, the shift from pixels to polygons was on. The industry was in the midst of focusing solely on 3D gameplay. All of sudden, industry favorites and perennial 2D classics the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog and...
A review of PaRappa the Rapper from Boss Fight Books
Retro gaming as a hobby is an inherently nostalgic one. The text of the games we played in childhood is often not as important as the personal meaning we place on those narratives in memory, and how they came to help us see the world. Last year, Boss Fight Books...
Binary Battle – A unique take on the Dungeon Crawler experience for the C64/Plus4!
We've featured many Dungeon Crawlers over the years, from ones such as Eye of the Beholder, with its first person grid based movement, to the top down turn based ones such as Descending Dungeons. This game however called 'Binary Battle' by Haplo and team, is not only...
This Week’s New Games: Stone Protectors & Solaris
Fight reptilian aliens in Stone Protectors and search for the legendary planet in Solaris. Two new titles once again join the Antstream library this week. Retro gamers can enjoy some beat ‘em up action with a quirky cast of rock musicians in Stone Protectors...
The addictive and unique gameplay of Yars’ Revenge
Yars’ Revenge was released during an era dominated by heroic space-shooters. And while the game took place in space, it broke some conventions of the genre. Instead of piloting a spaceship, you play as a flying alien. And instead of playing as a known protagonist, you...
Intellivision: Independence Holiday Update 2024
Happy Independence Day holiday to everyone in the USA, and we hope everyone else is enjoying a great summer! A lot has happened since our last update on Valentine’s day. The biggest news came in a press release at the end of May about our sale of the Intellivision...
Evander Holyfield’s Real Deal Boxing: Sega’s First Real Knockout
Boxing games have a rich history, but those on the early Sega consoles have always been hit or miss. While games the likes of Rocky II on the Sega Master System and Buster Douglas Boxing on the Genesis have cult followings, they weren’t exactly critically acclaimed...
Dreadnought Assault – Check out this rather awesome looking WIP scrolling shoot ’em up for the Atari 7800!
Not content with all the awesome news we've had so far this week, then how about this news story that's just been sent to us by our good friend Liqmatrix. It's the work in progress game of 'Dreadnought Assault' by kiwilove and playsoft. A rather awesome looking WIP...
Video Game of the Day – July 4th – Independence Day
Hello and welcome! My name is Katosepe and I’ll be your host for today’s Video Game of the Day! If I had more forethought, I would have recorded today’s episode yesterday so you could all hear it on July 4th but oh well. At least I’m recording this on the 4th so happy...
Aliens Neoplasma II – The sequel to an amazing game for the ZX Spectrum 128K and ZX Spectrum Next!
It wasn't long ago now that we had the pleasure of playing the awesome game 'Aliens NeoPlasma ' on the Spectrum which was developed by Sanchez crew (Russian Federation); a horror platformer as their own take on the Aliens movie theme complete with friendly...
An interview with Dustin Hubbard of Gaming Alexandria
The history of retro gaming isn't an especially long one, only going back maybe fifty years, at least if we limit ourselves to retro games as being computers rather than just complex machines. Preservation of this material can be challenging and thankless. All the...
Geo’s Quest Gateway to Nowhere – A new chapter in the latest Commodore Amiga Adventure game from GWI
Now another homebrew has appeared which will appeal to gamers who like adventure puzzlers , as we've been told by Tom in our email, that GWI has made available through Itch-io, the adventure game of Geo's Quest Gateway to Nowhere for the Commodore Amiga. A game in...
