Preview – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Zoinho – Isometric styled ZX Spectrum game previewed

On August 15, 2019August 16, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

There are a lot of readers on our site that remember and have enjoyed the 1980’s Isometric games from Ultimate Play the Game, such as Gunfright, Pentagram and even Knight Lore on systems such as the Amstrad, C64 or ZX Spectrum. So you can see why I just had to […]

Grubz – A Worms Clone previewed for the C64!

On July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

We’ve been featuring the C64 a lot this month, from games such as The Shadow over Hawksmill and PRECINCT 20 Dead Strange to name but a few. But there’s another game that may appeal to a much wider audience with nods to an all time favourite game, and that’s Team 17s […]

MiniMIKE – Early C64 game preview feels more like a WIP indie title

On May 30, 2019May 31, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

While some of you are considering pledging for the Parallaxian Kickstarter but would still rather play a new C64 game right now, then you might be interested to know that Paul Nicholls has made available an early preview of his work in progress game ‘ MiniMIKE ‘; a new game that […]

Wormwood Preview – Early alpha version of a randomly generated C64 wormy platformer!

On April 17, 2019April 18, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

If you’ve got a C64 and want to play a game that’s still in development, then you might be interested to know that Lemonspawn is working on a C64 randomly generated platformer called ‘ Wormwood ‘, which they also class as a 16kb classic roguelike action RPG in the spirit […]

Moonshadow 2 Septerios Revenge – An early preview sequel to a 1990’s C64 game by Paolo Galimberti

On December 1, 2018December 2, 2018 By Neil G

Even more C64 games to get through this weekend as we were recently told by Saberman that excess has released a very early preview of Darkerror’s upcoming sequel Moonshadow 2 Septerios Revenge, which is a tribute to Paolo Galimberti’s Moonshadow released way back in 1990. This game is an action platformer and […]

Aviator Arcade II – An awesome C64 shoot em up preview, final release due soon via RGCD and Psytronik

On November 11, 2018November 12, 2018 By Neil G

RGCD are back with another brilliant C64 tease and unlike their previous shooters, this time it’s a top quality preview for their upcoming shoot em up game ‘Aviator Arcade II’. The first version of Aviator Arcade was released in 2014 as a three level 16kb cart game for the RGCD […]

LIMBO C64 – Modern Indie game as a work in progress on the C64 gets a preview download!

On November 3, 2018November 3, 2018 By Neil G

If you were a fan of the game Limbo with its dark backgrounds and horror overtone, then as a retro gamer you might be surprised to learn that the Limbo C64 work in progress version by Søren Trautner Madsen has been made available as an early preview download by Excess. This […]

Cow & Chicken – Protovision teases a work in progress C64 game

On October 29, 2018October 30, 2018 By Neil G

Not to be outdone the C64 has also had some new games to play this week, as we’ve also learnt from Saberman that Protovision have released a very early teaser of a game called ‘ Cow & Chicken ‘. Now unlike the other games we’ve mentioned, this alpha download is […]

Invaders – A previewed Space Invaders clone for the Amiga

On October 15, 2018October 16, 2018 By Neil G

I’m sure many of you remember Space Invaders, a game that was first released way back in 1978 in the Arcades in Japan with a further release made available in the United States and a much later version in the 1980’s on the Atari 2600. Well if you do remember […]