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Table Tennis – by Leonard Herman
As the “father of videogame history,” I’m often asked about what I consider the most influential of all videogames. Without any hesitation, I’ll always respond with the simplest game imaginable. Although it consisted of only three spots, no sound, and no scoring,...
A Scorpion Behind the Rock – Then and Now
A simple phrase from a decades-old Apple II game still shapes how I approach modern work. What started as a deadly surprise in The Wizard & the Princess became a lasting lesson: always look for hidden risks before moving forward.
Retro Review – Choplifter for the Sega Master System
Set the wayback machine to the early '80s. While we had recently gotten our first home computer, the Commodore VIC-20, my cousins had been enjoying the Apple II system that my uncle used for writing sermons and the like. One of the first home computer games that I...
SpaceWar! The First Computer Game – by Eugene Jarvis
My favorite old school game has got to be 1962’s Spacewar! Spacewar! may well be the first true video game ever made. Developed by Steve Russel and collaborators at MIT. This 2-player space combat video game was played on a circular monochrome vector graphics display...
Calebe Adventure – A new 2D platformer released for the MSX by Paulo Pereira Gonçalves & Calebe Rodrigues Gonçalves
Recovering the Past: "Caleb Adventure" Brings Retro Heroism to the MSX! Retro gaming fans have a new mission: infiltrate the castle of Baron Buuu-hahaha and reclaim a stolen legacy. In the newly released title Caleb Adventure, players step into the shoes of a hero on...
Year 1952 and 1958 – by Tristan Ibarra
The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) located at the University of Cambridge’s Mathematical Laboratory would be the first computer hardware to host a “game” developed by Alexander Shafto “Sandy” Douglas, a British Professor of Computer Science. The...
ISSUE 50 OUT NOW !!!
Some games change everything. Over the last several decades, video games have evolved rapidly, thanks to developers who kept finding new ways to surprise us with the tools they had. Their ideas gave us the franchises we still celebrate and the genre landmarks that...
Hyper Sentinel Fusion – Final Chance to Join the Kickstarter!
Hyper Sentinel Fusion Already Made Kickstarter - Goal Do you want to join in? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robhwson/hyper-sentinel-fusion-2?ref=8eqafc From the founders of Hewson (Uridium, Paradroid, Cybernoid, Tower Toppler) and 21st Century Entertainment...
The Retro Room Games Achieves First Stretch Goal for Annalog
The Kickstarter for Annalog only launched on Tuesday, but the NES game has already achieved its initial $7000 goal and then some. The Retro Room Games has confirmed that it has hit its first stretch goal of $10,000 with 28 days left to go in the campaign....
The Best GBA Games Ever Made
The legacy of Nintendo's Game Boy is one that speaks for itself, fondly remembered by many gamers as the pinnacle of handheld gaming before the turn of the 2000s. However, in March of 2001, Nintendo upped the ante with a direct successor, the Game Boy Advance, and the...
Sweet Fightin’ +2 – Street Fighter 2 looks incredible on the ZX Spectrum!
We've featured Street Fighter many times now on IndieRetroNews, either as a 'What if' for the Commodore Amiga, or with the 2022 hit release called Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition for the Commodore 64. Well here's one that will blow your minds! As I've been told...
The Nintendo Famicom Controller
Before the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) hit the states, Nintendo had a console in Japan that would start a revolution of gaming. It was called the Famicom, or the full name, Family Computer. In 1983, the console hit the homes of gamers in Japan and test the...
Retro Review: Fort Apocalypse for the C64
Early in my video gaming life, one of the first computer games I ever played was Dan Gorlin's classic Choplifter on my cousin's Apple II. The simple presentation, on that glowing monochrome green CRT, was instantly addictive. When we got our Commodore 64 some time...
The Secret of Monkey Island project for the Commodore 64 looks incredible!
I'm sure many of you especially Amiga owners, will remember the brilliant 1990 Adventure game ' The Secret of Monkey Island, by Lucasfilm Games. But did you know a developer by the name of Joachim Ljunggren in collaboration with Andreas Larsson is working on bringing...
Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Basketball?
Release Date: 1978 Publisher: Atari Controller: Joystick Players: 1 - 2 Genre: Sports Alternate Title: N/A Model #: CX2624 Rarity: 2 Programmer: Alan Miller This one-on-one basketball duel is a flawed but entertaining take on the sport. This is about as rudimentary of...
We’ve Been Here Before (And I Didn’t Even Realize It)
This popped into my head literally like a lightbulb turning on. I just figured it out. I was sitting there using ChatGPT, working through something... typed a prompt, got a response, tweaked it, tried again, refined it, pushed it a little further... ...and it hit me....
Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball
The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the...
Neon Horizon – A new racer for the MSX2 as the 40th entry in the MSXDEV25 competition
In a record-breaking year for the retro community, developers Norakomi and Wolf have entered a fantastic looking game in the MSX dev competition. Titled as 'Neon Horizon'. This high-octane 3D scrolling racer has just been registered as the landmark 40th entry in the...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Ryan Hart
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Ryan Hart, who is displayed on card number 214, from the Superstars of 2012. Ryan is from London and has been playing games since he was 10 years. His genre of choice is fighting games. He succeeded tremendously in series...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Walter Day
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Walter Day who is displayed on card number 95, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Walter is also featured on cards 108, 523, 539, 591, 775, 1000, 1021, 1859, 2133, 2149, 2261, 2292, 2321, 2390 and 2462 (And many...
Vlak (Train) – Another conversion makes an appearance and again it’s for the Atari ST!
Babaliba wasn't the only classic game to be converted over to the Atari ST, as I've recently been told that the 1993 DOS game called Train, which is also very similar to another classic game called SNAKE. Has been converted over to the Atari ST by Slovak programmer...
LAST CHANCE: Pre-Order The Steven Universe Season 1 Score!
DON'T MISS OUT: Steven Universe: Season 1 (Score from the Original Soundtrack) 4x10” Vinyl Set! PRE-ORDERS CLOSE MONDAY, MARCH 16TH! We at iam8bit, along with Warner Bros. and WaterTower Music, are proud to present Steven Universe: Season 1 (Score from the Original...
Q*Bert – An Arcade classic is coming to the Amstrad CPC Plus, with a beta now available!
In 1982 Gottlieb released a very famous game that had an orange character with a long snout as a nose, it just had to be the isometric arcade game with puzzle elements of ' Q*Bert '. It was so popular in fact it appeared on many systems such as the Atari 2600 and the...
Swap Arcade Launches on Kickstarter – And it’s rollin!
Swap Arcade is a compact, affordable, retro home arcade designed for real homes. It lets you play the classics you love—and your modern favorites too—by using the devices you already own, including a Nintendo Switch, a phone or tablet, or a Windows PC. Most home...
This Day In Video Game History
