April 2019 – Page 2 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Rome – The Political Machine

On April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by TBD Hector’s Journal #3: “I’ve been a Senator for 15 minutes and I’ve already been given the opportunity to become a Consul, a position of power second only to the Emperor himself. So how do I get the populace to vote for me? Sensible and affordable policies? Tax […]

Let’s Play Stasis (Blind), Part 20 of 25: Masses of Flesh and Bone

On April 26, 2019April 27, 2019 By The RPG Chick

GET EM DX – A one or two player maze-based arcade C64 game released!

On April 26, 2019April 27, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

We have certainly been flooded with C64 news this month, what with Super Mario Bros, 1337 Karage, Rivarly, Mashed Turtles and Panzer gracing our Commodore screens. But now it looks as if another game is ready to be enjoyed, as we’ve just been contacted through our twitter page that RGCD […]

Sierra’s Castle of Dr. Brain: One Bizarre Job Application

On April 26, 2019April 27, 2019 By LGR

SkillGrid – A wicked AGA Shoot em up released for the Commodore Amiga

On April 26, 2019April 27, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Even more Amiga news for this week and one I think you’ll agree is pretty damn awesome! As we’ve just been told by RGCD that the previously work in progress Shoot em up called ‘ SkillGrid ‘, has just been released and can be purchased through the RETREAM and or […]

Star Control II: We’ll Have to Destroy Them Ship-to-Ship

On April 26, 2019April 26, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The ship stood no chance. For me, Star Control II‘s combat system is the most difficult and disappointing element of the game, and yet I recognize that it isn’t “bad.” To the contrary, it was a genius idea to take the ship-to-ship combat of Star Control and embed it […]

Rygar AGA – Tecmo’s Arcade game as an upcoming Amiga port looks better than ever

On April 25, 2019April 26, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Last year we told the retro community that Tecmo’s 1986 Arcade game of ‘ Rygar the Legendary Warrior ‘, was unofficially coming to the Amiga after having been released for systems such as the C64, ZX Spectrum, NES, and yes even the Master System. Well fast forward to today and […]

Let’s Play Stasis (Blind), Part 19 of 25: Birthing Laboratory

On April 25, 2019April 26, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Courier of the Crypts – Illuminating Dungeon Crawler gets a Steam launch

On April 25, 2019April 26, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

We’ve just been contacted by Emberheartgames that they have recently announced the release of their Illuminating dungeon crawler of ‘ Courier of the Crypts ‘, which is available to buy on Steam for the PC. In this pixelated adventure, you play as a courier on a mission to finish a […]

HOT NEWS : Michael Parent joins PixelGlass, New Amiga game hinted!

On April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Another day and another hot news announcement! As we have just been told in our inbox from Pixelglass and the team behind Worthy (i.e. John Tsakiris and Alex Brown ), that a super awesome and talented professional pixel artist named as Michael Parent of Bit Beam Cannon, has joined the team […]

Curse of Enchantia – Ice Rage: The Meltdown

On April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Alfred n the Fettuc We should really make a list of the seven cardinal sins of adventure game design someday (even if the list would probably be closer to seventy) but I’m pretty sure two sins would make the list pretty easily. You should never make a puzzle […]

Let’s Play Stasis (Blind), Part 18 of 25: Turning Insect Milk Into Vapor

On April 24, 2019April 25, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Could the Laser Disc version of Dragon’s Lair be coming to the C64 or is this really JUST FOR FUN?

On April 24, 2019April 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Now 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 direction at the right […]

Panzer – Strategy game released by Sputnik World for the C64

On April 24, 2019April 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Moving away from the platformers and shoot em ups, we now look towards Sputnik World for our C64 goodness. As unlike those genres, this one is a strategy game set in World War 2 called ‘Panzer’. This game released just recently, pits your tanks against other tanks as you move […]

Eight Dragons – Fighting homage to games such as Target Renegade now on Steam

On April 24, 2019April 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Today just gets better and better, as we’ve recently found out that Extend Mode’s fighting homage of ‘ Eight Dragons ‘, is now available to buy on Steam through Early Access! This game of which we have mentioned last year thanks to a great write up by @GamesInBits, is a new entry […]

Lumberjack Platform – Tree chopping Amiga game is now a charming platformer!

On April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Some time back we mentioned Megastyle & Protovision’s C64 homebrew game of ‘ Lumberjack ‘, which put you in the mighty boots of a Lumberjack, chopping down trees as fast as he can, without being bashed by the big branches above. It was a highly addictive game on the C64 […]

Mashed Turtles – A surprisingly enjoyable Frogger inspired C64 game

On April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

It’s time to put aside the controversial Super Mario C64 news, which is *ahem* still available throughout the globe just not on one particular site ;). As we have come across a rather enjoyable Frogger inspired game called ‘Mashed Turtles’, which has been released for the C64. This game originally […]

Whipseey and the Lost Atlas – Family friendly Kirby inspired platformer, coming soon!

On April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Trawling through many of the games found on the Steam coming soon list, there was every chance of finding a damn fine game that not only looked charming but had a high enjoyment factor that anyone in the family could pick up and play. Thankfully one such game called ‘ […]

Let’s Play Stasis (Blind), Part 17 of 25: Hydroponics

On April 23, 2019April 24, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Planet Cloudius IX – 90’s inspired Commander Keen game gets a release!

On April 23, 2019April 24, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

I’m sure many of you remember that awesome game that is ‘ Commander Keen ‘; a game released by id Software and publishers Apogee software in the 90’s for MS-DOS as a fun platformer using EGA as a pioneer for graphics at the time! But did you know Roobar released his […]