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Cancelled game ‘Warcraft Adventure Lord of the Clans’ gets an impressive remaster!
Way back in 2016 we announced much to the surprise of the community, that after 18 years of waiting, the rather rare and cancelled Adventure game ' Warcraft Adventures - Lord of the Clans ' was finally made available for download; a game that was due for release in...
The Retro Hour Podcast – Episode 338 Shadow of the Beast
Shadow of The Beast & Driver with Martin Edmonson The Retro Hour EP338 Published on August 5th, 2022 CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO PODCAST We chat to Reflections founder Martin Edmonson about the making of classics like Shadow of The Beast, Destruction Derby and the...
The MK Pinball that Nearly Happened – by Michael Thomasson
Bally Manufacturing, founded in 1932, manufactured amusement machines such as slot machines and pinball, and became a big player through the electromechanical and solid-state eras. In 1943, Bally acquired fellow slot machine maker Midway, and began making pinball...
Knights & Slimes – An in dev Arcade platformer for the C64 by Monte Boyd gets another tease
Another C64 news story for you all, and one I think many will still be interested in playing when it gets an eventual release, is the upcoming game of Knights & Slimes for the C64 by Monte Boyd. Yes indeed thanks to another shout out on Twitter, not only is Monte...
Five Genesis Games That Deserve Remasters
The Sega Genesis was littered with classics, but so many of the games that dominated sales charts on the console have disappeared since. Here’s our list of five games we’d love to see come back in some way. Altered Beast: Yes, there were subsequent new additions, but...
Black Dawn Rogue – The next Amiga AGA game in the Black Dawn Saga gets another tease
We've featured many Dungeon Crawlers on Indie Retro News, from Black Dawn Rebirth which is a high grade crawler as the 7th episode of the Black Dawn Dungeon Crawler/RPG series by Colin Vella, Shaun Watters, Ten Shu and Mike Richmond. To ' The Shadows of Sergoth '; a...
The Long Road to Mortal Kombat – by Kevin Butler
Mortal Kombat is an Action-Adventure, “Beat-em-Up” type of game, created by Midway in 1992, where you get to play as several characters in a Kung-Fu style of fighting. Each of these characters has certain signature moves and the biggest draw is each character’s type...
Frogger – A Project for the TI99/4A as an Extended Basic development!
In the early 80s, when video games were just starting their migration from the arcades to the living room, it was common for games programmers to take their inspiration from the more popular arcade games, and so we ended up with a million and one variations on...
Heart of Darkness: Dark Souls for kids in the 90s
*WARNING* – THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS POTENTIALLY MAJOR SPOILERS FOR HEART OF DARKNESS. IF YOU HAVE NOT YET PLAYED THIS GAME BUT HAVE AN INTEREST IN DOING SO, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS ARTICLE WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS* Gamers these days seem to enjoy punishment in their...
End of Days – by Michael Mertes
We have indeed reached the End of Days, as this will be the last installment of the series. Over the past few years,we have explored some fantastic hardware and games, though not all of them were great to play and research. For our final installment of End of Days, we...
1988-1998 A NEW BOOK EXCERPT By Brett Weiss (intro) and Alex Thompson (Mortal Kombat II essay)
When I’m a guest author (and now YouTuber) at various video game conventions around the country, the question I get more than any other is, “What is your favorite game of all time?” The answer is always Universal’s Mr. DoIf you haven’t played this classic maze title,...
Bruce Lee Anniversary Edition – HOT NEWS as a 1984 game hit arrives on the Commodore Plus/4!
We've certainly featured the 1984 game of Bruce Lee more than a few times now, especially with games such as Eel Ecurb for the Atari XL/XE and Bruce Lee - Return of Fury released on the C64. But now we look towards something incredible for our retro kicks, as...
Podcast of the Week – The Retro Hour
The Golden Age of Atari with Ed Rotberg - The Retro Hour EP337 Published on July 29, 2022 Click here to listen to podcast We're joined by the wonderful Ed Rotberg who was a core member of Atari's coin-op team from 1979 onwards, and worked on classics...
Paul Niemeyer – by Michael Mertes
May 21st, 2022 - It's been a rainy morning on the day of the B.N. Video Game Con, but Paul E. Niemeyer emerges from the car with a smile, and soon after, a hearty laugh as he cracks a joke with NBA Jam announcer Tim Kitzrow as they make their way into the convention...
Arcade Paradise – “A New Challenger”
Arcade Paradise is a love letter to arcades from the creators of Vostok Inc. Kit out your dream arcade with machines from the glory era, from simple vector-based games of the 70s all the way to the early 3D games of the mid-90s. Get a heavy dose of nostalgia with over...
Retro Gaming Events last June – by Ryan Burger
Summer so far has been quieter than some of the past years, as we have taken more time at home working on the magazine and other things all our readers will be finding out in August more about. So, we only have a couple Midwestern events to talk about in this issue....
Interview with Jeff Peters – by Patrick Hickey, Jr.
Midway’s Mortal Kombat franchise is a classic for a variety of reasons. Its lore, gameplay, blood, visuals, the entire package - has made it one of the leaders in the genre for over four decades. But way back during the days of the Sega Genesis, being able to deliver...
Mortal Kombat Book Preview – by David Craddock
Written by David L. Craddock, Long Live Mortal Kombat goes behind the scenes to reveal untold stories from the making of Mortal Kombat 1 through 4 and explores how the franchise impacted popular culture, and is due for publication this fall. In this excerpt from the...
Dragon’s Lair II Time Warp: Amiga Intro Animation redone frame by frame in Personal Paint by Hache
I remember Dragon's Lair very well, from the Amstrad version with the jumping of platforms or trying to stay on the spinning disk without being blown off, or the interactive animated version which appeared as a laserdisc in which you needed to press a specific...
Mortal Kombat – by Todd Friedman
When I was a senior in high school in 1992, I worked in the local bowling alley which had an arcade in the back of the building. Each month or so, the gaming distributor would bring in some new arcade and pinball games that had just come out. There were a lot of...
Mighty Street Fighter – Could this upcoming ‘Street Fighter’ be the next homebrew hit for the Amstrad 128k?
I'm sure many of you remember Street Fighter, a game which originally appeared on the Arcades, and was then ported to pretty much every system you could think of, including such systems as the Amiga, Atari St and even the ZX Spectrum. Well fast forward to today...
iiRcade Report by Brad Feingold
Yes, iIRcade has created a couple different model designs and released them, gave away some hats, shirts, sweatshirts, and other swag. That should be enough for us; we are ready for the next product... Actually, not quite. With some companies, a product is released...
Five Retro Game Industry Standards We’d Love to See Come Back
The video game industry sure has changed since the ‘70s and ‘80s right? With micro-transactions and DLC, games change throughout development and release- a far cry from the old days. In this exclusive list, we old birds at Old School Gamer share five things we’d love...
Super Mario Bros. S – A collaborative fan game available as a download or browser play
I have always had a soft spot for Super Mario Bros, ever since I first played it as a kid all those years ago in America on the NES. Its one of those timeless games that you never can get tired of. Its super simple to learn and control for new players and the gameplay...
