Tag: amiga

Amigathon – A fantastic cause by Amigos Retro Gaming coming 20th July!

There are so many charities out there trying to gather your support that most of the time it’s hard to pick the "right" one. Thankfully Amigos Retro Gaming is here to help, as from July 20th, they will be running the Amigathon: a fantastic 12 hour event that benefits Children’s […]

Theme Park – One of the best theme park strategy games gets a DarkwyndPT review!

Now, we’re just upping the ante, aren’t we? Still, it’s impossible to make a Bullfrog retrospective without mentioning another critical and commercial successful title, which is perhaps their most colourful game that also begun its own influential series. I’m talking about Theme Park. Theme Park is a managerial strategy game […]

King’s Quest – The first graphic adventure ever made for the PC and Sierra’s first big hit reviewed!

We can’t make a Sierra games retrospective without beginning with the first graphic adventure ever made for the PC and Sierra’s first big hit: King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown. As I mentioned in my Sierra historical retrospective, IBM needed a game to promote their new computer, the PCjr, and […]

Antstream – A retro game streaming subscription service is now live!

Great news if you were supporting the Antstream Kickstarter; a crowd funding campaign for a retro gaming based streaming service. As we’ve recently been informed through our twitter feed, that not only was Antstream a Kickstarter success a little while ago, but after having a closed beta, the retro gaming […]

AMIner – An Arcade mining game released for the Amiga gets an update

Another Amiga announcement has just arrived from Saberman, as he has just told us a previous Amiga game that was released in March of this year called ‘ AMIner ‘ has been updated to ver. 19.6.9, which features a number of improvements. This previous game listed in the EAB game development contest […]

Populous – A brilliant Strategy game reviewed by DarkwyndPT

Well, it isn’t too hard to figure out which Bullfrog game I’ll start reviewing for this retrospective. And it’s only fair that I start with Bullfrog’s first and possibly biggest success ever: Populous. Populous is a managerial/strategy game developed by Bullfrog and published by Electronic Arts. It was originally released […]

Coco Banana – Going Banana’s for this new Amiga game by Amiten Software

Even more Amiga games to get through this month as we’ve recently been informed by our good friend Saberman, that Amiten Software’s colourful platformer of ‘ Coco Banana ‘, was released over the weekend as a 2.0 public release. This game that was mentioned on our site some time ago […]

The Shadows of Sergoth – Superb work in progress Amiga Dungeon Crawler looks totally different!

If you have an Amstrad near by, chances are you would’ve come across the excellent homebrew Dungeon Crawler ‘ The Shadows of Sergoth ‘; a game which blew many of us away with fast coded graphics, deadly monsters and cool loot to find throughout. Well if you don’t have an […]

H.E.R.O 68k – HOT NEWS as this classic game is coming to the Amiga as a remake!

Sometime back we mentioned the classic game of H.E.R.O, which was first released way back in the 1980’s for the Atari 800/2600, ColecoVision, C64, C128, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Was not only being overhauled for the C64 but was also coming to modern systems as an inspired game called ‘Bobby […]

RESHOOT R – An awesome looking Amiga game by Richard Löwenstein gets a release!

Another Amiga update this week as we were recently informed by Saberman, that Richard Löwenstein has now released his incredible looking side scrolling shoot em up of ‘ RESHOOT R ‘. This game coded in pure assembler language, is an awesome looking game that follows in the same style as the […]