DEMO – The Retro Gaming Treasury

R.E.R.O – Amiga H.E.R.O remake gets an early demo tease

On November 9, 2019November 10, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

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 at some point overhauled for the C64 but was also coming to modern systems as an inspired […]

Super Mario Bros on the ZX Spectrum as a demo? Crazy!

On October 28, 2019October 29, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Pinball Dreams released on the CPC and Eye of the Beholder coming to the C64, could things get even crazier? Well it looks as if it just has! Welcome to the Super Mario Bros 128k Demo, a very early yet pretty amazing work in progress port of the classic NES […]

Geometrical Blast – An early shoot em up project from Alain Treesong

On August 16, 2019August 17, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The Amiga is doing well for Shoot em up homebrews this year, what with Reshoot R and SkillGrid to name but a few. But now another game has appeared to join this years short list of kick ass blasters. As thanks to a heads up by Saberman, we’ve been told […]

Galagon – An Arcade classic as an upcoming Atari 2600 port gets a great demo update

On August 5, 2019August 6, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Remember when we posted about the 1981 Arcade classic of ‘ Galaga ‘ was coming to the Atari 2600 as a high quality Arcade port by Champ Games? Well you’ll be happy to learn that this game , originally developed and published by Namco Japan and by Midway in North […]

Alex Kidd teased as an updated test of the Scorpion Engine

On July 21, 2019July 22, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

In 1987 Sega released the great side-scrolling platform game ‘ Alex Kidd ‘ for the Sega Master System console. Although it was first released in Japan in 1986 but internationally in 1987, it was one of the most well known games as it was also built into most Master System […]

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom – Wonderboy in Monster World spiritual successor gets a PC demo

On May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The developers Game Atelier have just announced that their spiritual successor to the Wonder Boy in Monster World series as ‘ Monster Boy And The Cursed Kingdom ‘ which was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Has finally received its first major PC demo after being […]

Raider of the Ruby Chest – Raiding ancient ruins in this charming retro inspired platformer

On May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Last month was pretty much non stop retro games on pretty much every system I can think of, from the Amiga, to the C64 and the ZX Spectrum. So now we are going to look towards the latest Indie games to get our more modernish fix. As we’ve been told […]

World Warrior – An unreleased Amiga game sees the light of day

On March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 By Neil G

Only moments ago after coming back from my health break ( thanks for all the nice comments! ), we were contacted by Saberman, that he has done a new video of a previously unreleased Amiga game called ‘ World Warrior ‘. Now from what we can tell, this game was […]

Mojonian Tales – An anthology of games created by the Mojon Twins for the NES

On March 8, 2019March 9, 2019 By Neil G

The Mojon Twins are certainly no strangers to this site, releasing cool homebrew games such as Cheril the Writer, Bootèe, MiedoW (Cheril’s Nightmares), Mega Cheril Perils and even games such as Lala The Magical on the NES! But now there’s a new game(s) in town, as we’ve just learnt from @nath_mojon the availability of ‘ […]

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 […]

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 […]

Iridium – Retro inspired shooter with inspirations such as Uridium is a Kickstarter success!

On February 5, 2019February 6, 2019 By Neil G

If you were a huge fan of that classic game ‘Uridium ‘ which was released in the late 80’s for the C64 Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, NES, Virtual Console and MS-DOS, or the high grade modern version from the original team Hewson Consultants called ‘ Hyper Sentinel […]

Rygar AGA – Tecmo’s Arcade game is coming to the Amiga

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

Even more Amiga news as we’ve just learnt that Rygar the Legendary Warrior; a video game created and released by Tecmo in 1986 for the Arcades and later ported to the Sharp X68000, C64, ZX Spectrum, NES, Master System and Lynx, is coming to the Amiga! Yes you read that […]

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

On December 9, 2018December 10, 2018 By Neil G

Even more Amiga games to get through this weekend as we’ve recently been informed by our good friend Saberman, that Amiten Software’s colourful platformer of ‘ Coco Banana ‘ is not only ready for pre-orders as a limited boxed edition priced at 19,90€ (29,90€ after Sunday), but there’s a public […]

Death Strike – A demo of a rather cool looking shoot em up by Darkbits

On November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 By Neil G

Don’t worry Shoot em up fans we haven’t forgotten you, as in our search for something fresh rather than platformers, we have come across a game you might just like. Titled as ‘ Death Strike ‘ this early work in progress game developed by Darkbits, is an old school horizontal shoot […]

Thio’s Odissey – A Wonder Boy clone is coming to the Intellivision

On November 12, 2018November 13, 2018 By Neil G

When I was a wee lad spending all my money down at the Arcades, one such game I used to love was that fantastic platformer ‘ Wonder Boy ‘ designed by Ryuichi Nishizawa. Instead of those later Wonder Boy games which became more of an adventure platformer with RPG elements. […]

Redpill Puzzle – Move the Diamonds in Lemming880’s Amiga game

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

Another Amiga news story to set the evening and no not a hardware post, as we’ve been told by a good friend of ours that Lemming880 has released an updated version of his puzzle game ‘ RedPill Puzzle ‘ for the Amiga. This game developed using RedPill, is a Diamond […]

Captain Disaster in Death Has A Million Stomping Boots – Retro inspired adventure with a demo!

On September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 By Neil G

I’ve always been an Adventure gamer on both my Amiga and PC, and have such fond memories of games such as The Secret of Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer, Fable, Kings Quest and even the Quest for Glory series. So to hear our good friend CaptainD has made an Adventure game […]

Super Pumpkin Bros – An old preview of an unfinished Amiga game

On September 7, 2018September 8, 2018 By Neil G

Rise of the Pumpkin isn’t the only game mentioned today, as thanks to a heads up by Saberman and DamienD we’ve come across an Amiga game called Super Pumpkin Bros, which was first announced way back in 2007 and released around about that time. Now this game sadly is just a […]

Grab This Demo for the Incredible RPG Heartbeat – Full Release coming September 14th!

On September 5, 2018September 8, 2018 By Neil G

Chumbosoft may well be on their way to creating the next best thing in the RPG genre with Heartbeat! Soon to have a full release on September 14th, you can grab a work in progress demo now for Windows systems. [embedded content] After a great war between humans and Mogs, the […]