October 2018 – Page 2 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Quest for Glory III and IV

On October 26, 2018October 27, 2018 By Jimmy Maher

The VGA remake of Quest for Glory I. By this point, Sierra’s graphics exceeded the quality of most Saturday-morning cartoons, and weren’t far off the standard set by feature films, being held back more by the technical limitations of VGA graphics than those of the artists doing the drawing. Quest […]

Manic Mixup – A remix of Matthew Smith’s classic ZX Spectrum 48K game ‘Manic Miner’

On October 26, 2018October 27, 2018 By Neil G

In 1983 Matthew Smith and published by Bug-Byte released the well known classic of Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum. Although it was later released again by Software Projects, it was the first game in the willy series and was inspired by the Atari 800 game ‘Miner 2049’. Not only […]

Amishion Impossible – An AGA Amiga game will be released this weekend!

On October 26, 2018October 26, 2018 By Neil G

Get ready to load up that Amiga or play through an Emulator ,as we’ve just been told via Earok that a new AGA based Amiga game called ‘ Amishion Impossible ‘ will be released this weekend. This game announced via Facebook is set after the year 2k when appliances rule […]

Battle Princess Madelyn – Ghouls ‘n Ghosts inspired spectacular is coming this fall

On October 25, 2018October 26, 2018 By Neil G

In 1988 Capcom released one of the finest Arcade games ever to grace the gaming scene, and that game was the incredible Ghouls ‘n Ghosts which appeared on lots of different systems. It is a game that if you haven’t played it, you are seriously missing out! So as an […]

Invasion 1984 – A new shoot em up announced for the Game Boy

On October 25, 2018October 26, 2018 By Neil G

The Game Boy was a huge part of my childhood, games such as Tetris, Mario, R-Type and even PaperBoy was played for many hours, even when trying to see the damn thing on long haul travels. So to see a new game called ‘ Invasion 1984 ‘ announced for the […]

Space Harrier coming to the Atari XL/XE gets an update!

On October 25, 2018October 26, 2018 By Neil G

The news just gets better and better, as if you thought the arcade conversion of Popeye coming to the ZX Spectrum was a good story, then you’ll be pleased to learn that just moments ago we have found out that the arcade classic of ‘ Space Harrier ‘ will be […]

Maze Death Rally-X – Maze Death Race 1983 Remake is coming to the ZX Spectrum!

On October 25, 2018October 26, 2018 By Neil G

It wasn’t too long ago that many of us had the pleasure of playing Allan Turvey’s Terrapins RX; a Rally X Remix demo which was based on the 1980 game by Namco and official conversion Maze Death Race which was released later in 1983 by PSS for the ZX Spectrum 16K. Fast […]

Popeye Arcade 2018 – Gabriele Amore’s latest ZX Spectrum game is an Arcade conversion!

On October 25, 2018October 26, 2018 By Neil G

All the way into 2018 we’ve had countless conversions and ports either released or announced as coming to a specific system. Games such as Knightlore on the C64 is one such fine game. But now with the end of the year fast approaching there’s another game that’s been announced, but […]

Spellcasting 301 – Won!

On October 25, 2018October 26, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

By Deimar Ernie Eaglebeak’s Journal #5: And so, once again I have saved the day. From my old nemesis/stepfather Joey Rottenwood. Again. And almost got to meet Lola, my long lost love. Again. I am beginning to note a pattern here. We even managed to win the contest by quite a […]

Holcan Warrior of the Sun – Another fab C64 game teased by Trevor Storey and team!

On October 24, 2018October 25, 2018 By Neil G

There hasn’t been a month gone by this year that T Storey, G Rottensteiner, A Volkers and S Collier haven’t been mentioning C64 games that are currently in development, teased as possible projects or released into the wild. We’ve had the release of Barnsley Badger, Argus, Organism and even Rocky Memphis […]

Zombie Calavera Prologue – Mojon Twins ZX Spectrum game will be ported to the C64

On October 24, 2018October 25, 2018 By Neil G

Got a ZX Spectrum and a C64 and looking forward to Halloween? Then you might be pleased to know Digital Monastery will be bringing The Mojon Twins speccy game of ‘ Zombie Calavera Prologue ‘, to the C64 within the next couple of weeks. This game originally released in 2010 puts […]

The Virtual Reality Cockpit

On October 24, 2018October 25, 2018 By Rampant Coyote

One of the things I discovered flying a World War II warbird in Virtual Reality is just how small those cockpits really were. This is true of many modern fighters as well. After years of seeing the front panel stretched out from screen edge to screen edge. Sure, I used […]

L’abbaye Des Morts – Upcoming eagerly awaited C64 port accepting pre-orders!

On October 24, 2018October 24, 2018 By Neil G

Some time back we announced the release of L’Abbaye des Morts; a fantastic platformer in a ZX Spectrum style that was originally developed by Locomalito who is no stranger to developing fantastic games such as Maldita Castilla and Hydorah. Well you’ll be pleased to know that same game which also […]

Writerly Update and NaNoWriMo

On October 23, 2018October 24, 2018 By Rampant Coyote

The day job is ramping up the pressure, so it is a challenge to get much done during the off hours. But I’m going for it. As I mentioned before, the latest StoryHack (#3) is out, featuring my urban fantasy story, “Shoot First.” This story was a fun one to […]

Missed Classic 60: Adventure in the 5th Dimension (1983)

On October 23, 2018October 23, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Joe Pranevich A funny thing happened on the way to Wishbringer… As we start into 1985 in our Infocom marathon, we need to bring one new and influential game designer into focus: Brian Moriarty. Mr. Moriarty is the designer behind Wishbringer, as well as Trinity (which I know […]

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 […]

Legends II: Won! (Summary and Rating)

On October 22, 2018October 26, 2018 By CRPG Addict

Legends II United States Asgard Software (developer and publisher) Released in 1989 for TI-99 Date Started: 14 October 2018 Date Ended: 20 October 2018 Total Hours: 10 Difficulty: Easy (2/5); this is partly user-definable Final Rating: (to come later) Ranking at Time of Posting: (to come later) Legends […]

Raging Orlando – Work in progress C64 game by Warlock Entertainment gets a cool update!

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

Thankyou everyone for reading my story post, but now it’s time to get back to the best side of IRN, which is writing about retro games! First up in this weekly jaunt, is a brand new game coming up from Warlock Entertainment ‘ Raging Orlando ”; a high quality C64 […]

My Story – Autism, bullying and the love of retro gaming!

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

I’ve been meaning to do this now for a very very long time, but have always felt doing something like this might bore many of you and even turn some of you away. But considering how many years Indie Retro News has been going, and how many great friends I’ve […]

LGR – Cities: Skylines Industries Review

On October 22, 2018October 22, 2018 By LGR