November 2018 – Page 2 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Infested – An NES style graphic adventure

On November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 By Neil G

In the 8-bit days, the adventure games that came before the animated style made popular by Lucasarts SCUMM games (Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island) were much simpler affairs. In a lot of cases barely more than text adventures but with added still pictures to help you visualize the room you […]

Power Blade – Upcoming ZX Spectrum game with new racing level footage!

On November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 By Neil G

Last month we gave you the heads up of a seriously cool looking ZX Spectrum game called ‘ Power Blade ‘, which is in development by n1k-o@nq_skrju as a top quality inspiration of the same name which was originally released in the early 90’s by Taito. Well there’s great news ahead, […]

The Year Ahead – 1993

On November 25, 2018November 25, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

By the TAG Team It’s again that magical time, when our community of readers gets to spend their well-earned CAPs and decide what is to be expected during another year of TAG. This time the stakes are on 1993, a year remembered fondly by all friends of good scifi TV […]

The Last Ninja Ninjakul 2 – A Last Ninja WIP Demake – ZX Spectrum

On November 24, 2018November 24, 2018 By Neil G

As far as de-makes go, the news of a Last Ninja incarnation is great news! Yes, over on the ZX Dev Remake page a user who goes by the name of Pat Morita – no relation – has started work on his version of the martial art classic. I think it was […]

From Beyond – Prologue – Horror adventure inspired by games such as Shadowgate!

On November 23, 2018November 24, 2018 By Neil G

Great news if you loved games such as Deju Vu, Uninvited or even my personal favourite Shadowgate, as we’ve just been told through our Game Dev : RetroGaming Facebook group, that SuckerFree Games will be releasing a game of similar style to those games called ‘ From Beyond – Prologue ‘. This […]

Controlling the Spice, Part 1: Dune on Page and Screen

On November 23, 2018November 24, 2018 By Jimmy Maher

Frank Herbert in 1982. In 1965, two works changed the face of genre publishing forever. Ace Books that year came out with an unauthorized paperback edition of an obscure decade-old fantasy trilogy called The Lord of the Rings, written by a pipe-smoking old Oxford don named J.R.R. Tolkien, and promptly […]

Merchant – Atari ST/STE Trading simulator, comes 5th at SILLY VENTURE 2018

On November 23, 2018November 24, 2018 By Neil G

One of my favourite genres is trading simulators, games such as Port Royale and Patrician whereby you start off with but a penny to your name hoping to make it rich and become powerful enough to tell the rest of your town what to do. Thankfully it seems others are particularly […]

Back to the Future Part III: Timeline of Monkey Island – Adventure fan demo gets a release

On November 23, 2018November 23, 2018 By Neil G

It wasn’t long ago now that we gave much excitement to the retro community that a demo was coming which blended The Secret of Monkey Island and Back to the Future as an adventure game with glorious inspirations. Well there’s good news today as just moments ago the developer Daniele Spadoniin […]

The Eggsterminator – The Death Squad is back with another entertaining ZX Spectrum game

On November 23, 2018November 23, 2018 By Neil G

It wasn’t that long ago now that we played a rather strange game called Pooper Scooper, in which the object of the game was to clean a park using different characters with different abilities such as a worm to eat weeds and even a beetle to clean up poo. Well it […]

Island of Dr. Brain – From Beach to Beach

On November 23, 2018November 23, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Reiko We are on the hunt for Dr. Brain’s special battery for his latest secret project. His pilot has dropped us off (using a parachute!) onto Dr. Brain’s private island, and we must now tackle the piles of puzzles between us and our goal. The copy protection requires […]

Rogue – Dmitry Krapivin’s Roguelike release for the ZX Spectrum

On November 22, 2018November 23, 2018 By Neil G

We’ve had a lot of Amiga and C64 news this week, so to balance it all out we have a new ZX Spectrum game to show you in the form of a roguelike called ‘ Rogue ‘, which was developed by Dmitry Krapivin. Now if you like traversing through maze like […]

It Should Have Been an RPG

On November 22, 2018November 22, 2018 By CRPG Addict

Confession time. My lack of entries over the last week has not been because of my usual excuse–work–but rather because all my free time has gone into Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s an absurdly large, long, and addictive game. I’ve been on break all week (no one schedules anything the […]

Bruce Lee inspired game ‘ Tiger Claw ‘ arriving on the Amiga before Christmas

On November 21, 2018November 22, 2018 By Neil G

Well this is fabulous news, as earlier today we found out that RGCD’s brilliant Bruce Lee inspired game ‘Tiger Claw’, will be coming to the Amiga and Amiga CD32 just in time for Christmas. This game was originally released for the C64 developed by Lazycow and Saul Cross with an exclusive […]

Steam Autumn Sale

On November 21, 2018November 22, 2018 By Rampant Coyote

Hold onto your wallets! The Steam Autumn Sale is here. Now, I’d really appreciate it if people took advantage of Frayed Knights: The Skull of S’makh-Daon being 60% off… less than $5… to help offset the amount of money I’m likely to spend this weekend on Steam games that I […]

Back to the Future Part III: Timeline of Monkey Island – Amiga fan demo, due soon?

On November 21, 2018November 22, 2018 By Neil G

The Amiga games just keep on coming, but unlike the homebrews and ports we announced through this month such as Starquake, The Real Brus Lii, Barbarian Plus and Uwol Quest For Money we now look towards a new adventure demo which may or may not come before Christmas. Titled as The Fan Game […]

Spider Maze – Collect Diamonds and avoid Spiders in this new C64 game

On November 21, 2018November 22, 2018 By Neil G

Saberman is on the ball again for the retro gaming video community, as just recently he’s uploaded a new video of a C64 game called ‘ Spider Maze ‘ which was coded by Richard Bayliss via The New Dimension for the Scene World Magazine. This game developed using assembler is […]

LumberJack – A very BASIC version of the Homebrew C64 wood chopper

On November 21, 2018November 22, 2018 By Neil G

LumberJack has appeared on Indie Retro News a number of times over the last few years, what with Megastyle & Protovision’s C64 release in 2016 and Cobe and Lemming880’s Amiga conversion in 2017. But now it looks as if another version has come into the light and that is Steveboy’s Lumberjack […]

Missed Classic 62: A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985) – Introduction

On November 21, 2018November 21, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Joe Pranevich I keep just missing all of the possible holiday tie-ins. Wishbringer, as it turns out, would have been absolutely perfect for Halloween with its child-friendly monsters and campy darkness. A Mind Forever Voyaging could have been an “Election Day Special” to connect with the recent midterm […]

Waxworks – Walk Like an Egyptian

On November 20, 2018November 20, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

By Deimar Prince Cassim’s Journal: For Hathor I will have my revenge against my brother. He pledged allegiance to the God of Death, Anubis, bringing shame to our family. He even had the audacity of becoming the High Priest and constructed a pyramid in my territories. But worst of all, […]

Andy Green’s early Christmas gift for the ZX Spectrum!

On November 20, 2018November 20, 2018 By Neil G

Andy Green is certainly no stranger to us or the ZX Spectrum community, as throughout all these years on this site, he has created many fantastic pieces of artwork that are used during most of the ZX Spectrum games featured on Indie Retro News. Games such as The Beast Of Torrack […]