March 2019 – Page 2 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

A grand day for RTS fans as Warcraft I & II bundle arrives on GOG

On March 28, 2019March 29, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

After GOG announced that the classic hack n slasher of Diablo was made available on their digital store, many people did expect that Warcraft would follow soon after, especially as both of these incredible titles came out from Blizzard. Well even though we didn’t get the heads up till late […]

Skyrim Day 094 – The Long Report

On March 27, 2019March 28, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

25 Sun’s Dusk, 4E201 Solitude ~~~ The rest in the former Stormcloak’s quarters was a brief one. When I woke the Imperial soldiers were still busy removing the corpses of the fort’s former owners and preparing their own for burial. I spoke briefly with the Imperial Captain, he had sent […]

Let’s Play Adr1ft (Blind), Part 15 of 17: HAN-IV Spire

On March 27, 2019March 28, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Let’s Play Shining in the Darkness, Part 32 of 47: The Shellbeast

On March 27, 2019March 28, 2019 By The RPG Chick

The Seventh Link: Summary and Rating

On March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The game manual featured some fairly modest hand-drawn art. The Seventh Link Canada Oblique Triad (developer and publisher) Released 1989 for Tandy Color Computer 3Date Started: 16 December 2018 Date Ended: 16 March 2019 Total Hours: 22 Difficulty: Medium-Hard (3.5/5) Final Rating: (to come later) Ranking at Time of […]

Bridge Strike – Modern ‘River Raid’ on the Amiga is now ready to enjoy!

On March 26, 2019March 27, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

As we said before in our recent article, many months ago the creators of Tanks Furry , Project R3D, released a teaser for their in development Amiga game ‘ Bridge Strike ‘, which had a backers winter demo along side the announced AmiGameJam and was awarded second place in the […]

Let’s Play Adr1ft (Blind), Part 14 of 17: Terminal Fakeout

On March 26, 2019March 27, 2019 By The RPG Chick

No Man’s Sky Goes VR This Summer

On March 26, 2019March 27, 2019 By Rampant Coyote

I played over 70 hours of No Man’s Sky when it was originally released. Unlike others, I wasn’t disappointed. Yeah, it got repetitive and lonely at times. There was a starkness to it that no amount of lush procedural visuals could overcome. It’s changed a lot since then, graphically, in […]

Let’s Play Shining in the Darkness, Part 31 of 47: Labyrinth Proper, Level 3!

On March 26, 2019March 27, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Legends of Amberland – 90’s inspired crawler by Silver Lemur Games – Early Access on Steam

On March 26, 2019March 27, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

We’ve been banging on about this game for months now, but today we were told by Silver Lemu Games that their work in progress Dungeon Crawler of ‘ Legends of Amberland ‘, is now available to buy through Early Access on Steam. This rather nice looking crawler that is still […]

The original Diablo is available at GOG.com

On March 26, 2019March 27, 2019 By Rampant Coyote

Diablo 1 is now on GOG.com. It’s $10, so it’s not exactly super-cheap, but compared to the trouble I went through getting Diablo to install and run on my last computer (requiring some downloaded mods just to get it *mostly* working), it could be worth it to you. Diablo 1 […]

Gobliiins – Final Rating

On March 26, 2019 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

By Ilmari Gobliiins is one of those games, which definitely have flaws, but still manage to be, on the whole, charming and fun to play. It will be interesting to see whether the good parts will manage to outweigh the weaknesses or not. There’s something immensely enjoyable in scenes like […]

Let’s Play Adr1ft (Blind), Part 13 of 17: Mobilis

On March 25, 2019March 26, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude – A tune banging retro remix Kickstarter launching this Friday!

On March 25, 2019March 26, 2019 By Neil G

This is seriously great news for anyone who loves retro gaming music, especially from the Amiga! As during the weekend just gone by, we were told that a new Kickstarter is launching this Friday that is sure to excite many in the Amiga community. Titled as ‘ Amiga Power: The Album […]

Double Dragon – A proper version of a classic game coming to the C64!

On March 25, 2019March 26, 2019 By Neil G

Even to this day, if you ask someone what they thought of Double Dragon, and they’d probably tell you of an awesome beat em up game released in 1987, that gave you the option to play two twin martial artists who could kick, punch and throw enemies off scene through […]

Let’s Play Shining in the Darkness, Part 30 of 47: Dark Sol Revealed!

On March 25, 2019March 26, 2019 By The RPG Chick

Berks Four – Super duper blaster for the Atari XL/XE

On March 25, 2019March 26, 2019 By Neil G

It’s the Atari XL/XE’s time to shine today as over the weekend we were contacted by Saberman of a new game called "Berks Four", which was coded by Jon Williams who was also behind another classic game called "Jet Boot Jack". In short, Jon has previously worked on other games […]

OpenTTD 1.9.0 RC2 – Open Source Transport Tycoon Deluxe gets a new release candidate

On March 25, 2019March 26, 2019 By Neil G

OpenTTD is one of the most popular open source releases on our site, and that comes as no surprise to us as it’s a constantly updated open source version of Microprose’s hit game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. A game that’s so addictive you’ll be spending hours developing your very own transport […]

AlarCity Dungeon Prototype – Formerly known as the "AlarTV" Amiga version

On March 25, 2019March 26, 2019 By Neil G

Even more Amiga news today as we’ve recently been informed from Earok of PixelGlass, that he has released a playable Amiga prototype of the AlarCity Dungeon, which was formly known as AlarTV. Now I know many of you are still waiting for the full game of AlarCity from PixelGlass, but […]

Xenon – The Bitmap Brothers 1980’s Shoot ’em Up reviewed by DarkwyndPT

On March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 By Neil G

Yes, I know that in my last review I promised to get away from the stars, but I spent the last weekend playing some old arcade titles and thus decided to write a small review that just happen to be of a classic shoot ’em up. Sorry. Anyway, today’s subject […]