February 2019 – Page 3 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Super Galax-I-Birds – A super duper C64 Shoot em up!

On February 21, 2019February 22, 2019 By Neil G

C64 owners do you fancy playing a rather cool shoot em up where the only goal is to get the highest score against your opponent? Well look no further than Super Galax-I-Birds! A wickedly fast shoot em up by C64 Crap Debunk, that doesn’t just feature a rapid onslaught of […]

Road Avenger – LaserDisc Racer as an Amiga release by ReImagine Games gets an update

On February 21, 2019February 22, 2019 By Neil G

Things are slowly getting back to normal on Indie Retro News after my earlier computer failure, as we are pleased to announce ReImagine Games via Earok on the EAB forums, has released an update to the LaserDisc game ‘Road Avenger ‘ for the Commodore Amiga. This game was announced as […]

The Micro Kids – A book by Gary Plowman

On February 21, 2019February 22, 2019 By Neil G

Micro Kids? I thought they looked small. It seems Gary Plowman may have an obsession with Spectrums – first he wrote a book of self-penned ZX Spectrum games in his ZX Spectrum Games Code Club book, now he’s back again (but this time in novel form) with another book featuring the […]

Let’s Play 35MM (Blind), Part 11 of 13: Attacked By Statues!

On February 21, 2019February 22, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Breadth, Depth, and Immersion (ft. The Seventh Link)

On February 21, 2019February 21, 2019 By CRPG Addict

The party continues to explore The Seventh Link‘s large world. This entry posits a thesis that I’ve never explicitly articulated before and probably haven’t spent enough time thinking about its flaws. I thus particularly invite you to join me in the comments and add or modify the thesis’s tenets. […]

Sam’s Journey Coming to the NES! Exclusive Screenshots

On February 20, 2019February 21, 2019 By Neil G

When Knights of Bytes released Sam’s Journey for the Commodore 64 back in 2017 it was a huge hit! Indie Retro News awarded Sam’s Journey game of the year 2017 as this game really surpassed all our expectations, delivering us a huge epic adventure that really pushed the limitations of […]

Tiki Taca – Ultimate Atic Atac inspired game from Climacus and Errazking!

On February 20, 2019February 21, 2019 By Neil G

This week has been one of those weeks…The site computer all but keels over, the weather isn’t that great and headaches are getting in the way! Oh well at least there’s good news for this evening, as we’ve been told by Saberman that Climacus and Errazking’s Atic Atac inspired remake […]

Let’s Play 35MM (Blind), Part 10 of 13: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Gas

On February 20, 2019February 21, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Let’s Play 35MM (Blind), Part 9 of 13: Dismal Tunnels

On February 19, 2019February 20, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Building my dream computer – Part 1

On February 19, 2019February 20, 2019 By The 8-Bit Guy

Rex Nebular – LOST! (Request for Assistance)

On February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 By TBD

Written by TBD. Rex Nebular’s Log: Stardate – 13th b’ak’tun.1: I finally found my way off this planet, but it quickly became clear that it wasn’t exactly how I wanted to go out – can I try again?… I’m hopelessly stuck. Last time I reported in, I’d done some exploring […]

Let’s Play 35MM (Blind), Part 8 of 13: Pursuit!

On February 18, 2019February 19, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Tales of Gorluth III (Amiga) – The Third and Final Chapter gets an early demo

On February 18, 2019February 19, 2019 By Neil G

AMIworx are back in the news this week as they have just informed the Amiga community of a brand new early teaser demo for their upcoming Action RPG game ‘Tales of Gorluth III’, which is the third and final chapter in the series. Yes indeed if you loved Tales of […]

Missing and Mysteries

On February 18, 2019February 19, 2019 By CRPG Addict

I thought I would centralize, in this entry, all of the games that we either can’t find or that I’ve found unplayable or unwinnable in some mysterious way. This should make it easier for readers who stumble across the blog to offer hints. I’ll remove titles (or otherwise flag them) […]

Ryane McLaine – A new ZX Spectrum inspired game from Jetpack Jaxx dev gets a demo

On February 18, 2019February 19, 2019 By Neil G

As we said before it was only just last month we announced the release of a seriously cool looking ZX Spectrum inspired game called ‘Jetpack Jaxx’, which was not only released for the PC but also Android owners. This game having a ZX flavour, was developed by Psyshteek and as […]

Boulder Dash Junior II The Final Dig – An awesome C64 Boulder Dash Game!

On February 18, 2019February 19, 2019 By Neil G

As we love retro games so much we were most excited to learn from Saberman, that Raiders of the Lost Empire had released a Junior version of First Star Software’s classic game ‘ Boulder Dash ‘. This game originally released in 1984 for more computers can we can think of with […]

Setting Up An Unused 1986 IBM PC Convertible!

On February 18, 2019February 19, 2019 By LGR

SOPHIA II – Enhanced remake of Matthew Smith’s "Styx" available as version 1.01

On February 18, 2019February 19, 2019 By Neil G

If you were checking out Indie Retro News last Monday, you would’ve come across a post from us that announced the release of ‘Sophia II’ version 1.0 for the ZX Spectrum. This game is a sequel to the successful Sophia and a remake of Matthew Smith’s 48k ZX Spectrum game "Styx" […]

Pinball Dreams CPC – Fantastic Amiga classic on the Amstrad CPC is nearly here!

On February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 By Neil G

At the end of 2016-2017 we announced the fantastic Amiga pinball game ‘ Pinball Dreams ‘ by Digital Illusions CE in 1992 had finally been made available as a preview download on the Amstrad CPC by none other than Batman Group, creators of the scene demo Batman Forever. Well here […]

The RPG Chick

On February 17, 2019 By ciathyza