Tag: Atari

A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year from Indie Retro News

Here we are again with another Christmas and what a year it has been, full of incredible indie games, new homebrews, and lots of retro specials that have amazed even our own writers! From C64 games such as Aviator Arcade II, Portal, L’Abbaye des Morts 64, Caren Thank You Edition 2018, Organism, Limbo, […]

Rikki & Vikki – A cool puzzle platformer coming to Atari 7800 ProSystem and Steam(26th Dec)

If you’re looking for a game that really stands out on the Atari 7800 Prosystem, or just want to play a rather cool puzzle platformer on Steam, then look no further than Rikki & Vikki by PenguiNet, which is due to be released 26th Sept(Steam) and January 14, 2019(Atari 7800 Pro). In […]

8bit-Slicks – Remake of slicks’n’slide for the Apple II, Atari XL/XE, and C64/C128

It’s been some time since we featured any top down racing games, usually it’s arcade platformers or shoot em ups that grace our computer screens. But thankfully for today that’s about to change, as thanks to a heads up in our inbox, we’ve been told Timo Kauppinen’s ‘slicks’n’slide’ has been […]

New Adventures of Laura – New challenging levels for this charming Atari XL/XE game

If you’re looking for something nice to play over this Christmas period on your Atari XL/XE, then look no further than the ‘New Adventures of Laura’; A Christmas gift from ccwrc and Larek that not only adds new levels to the game, which originally went on sale in September as a […]

Hot News as Blood Remaster has been announced, Gory FPS from 1997!

The news just gets better and better this week as earlier today we were told Monolith Productions bloody gory and hellish first person shooter of ‘ Blood ‘, will be coming to the PC via GOG and Steam as a remaster by Nightdive Studios, and published by Atari. If that wasn’t […]

Donkey Kong – Atari 8-bit Arcade HACK has finally been released for all to enjoy!

Way back in 2016 we mentioned Darryl1970’s Atari 8-bit Arcade hack of Nintendo’s 1981 original classic ‘ Donkey Kong ‘, in which you played as Mario that must avoid obstacles across a number of platforms, with sometimes a hammer in hand to save a damsel in distress from a giant […]

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

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 […]

Game #67: Gauntlet IV (Genesis) – Dragons All The Way Up (Finished)

Game 67 Title: Gauntlet 4 Released: 1993 Platform: Genesis Developer: Atari Games Corporation Publisher: Tengen Genre: Action-RPG Exploration – Top-down Combat – Active Series – Gauntlet This title surprised me. First, I had written it off the list for no other reason than it was Gauntlet. How could that series have enough RPG elements to include? […]