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“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...
Retro Review of 2021.
It's hard to say wether or not 2021 will be looked back on fondly yet. Sure things have gotten a little better since the pandemic began, but things are still not completely the same. However us Retro gamers got some good and bad surprises throughout the year. This...
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...
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...
This Day In Video Game History
