Neil G – The Retro Gaming Treasury

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 […]

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 […]

Blask – First person shooter Amiga tech 2 demo update

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

It’s a Monday which means it’s time to start writing retro news, and for the first piece of news here’s a new Amiga tech 2 demo called ‘Blask (eng. Shine?, Glow?, Glare?)’, or as its previous name ‘Alien Enemy: Dangerous Alien’, which is a new improved demo with updated movements. […]

The Path – Illustrated text-based puzzle game also playable in your browser!

On March 22, 2019March 23, 2019 By Neil G

Another game released by Adventuron this month and no not a simulation, is the Illustrated Text-Based Puzzle game ‘ The Path ‘. Yes indeed it’s time to put aside the sim and look towards this rather unusual game, as in the The Path you will encounter a series of challenges, containing […]

Hamurabi – A classic resource management sim ported online!

On March 22, 2019March 23, 2019 By Neil G

Atlantis and Dragonfire weren’t the only games to be ported this month, as earlier today Chris contacted us to let us know that a port of ‘Hamurabi’ had been released and playable online via the Adventuron itch.io page. This game according to the main write up, is a port of […]

Metaloid:Origin – Super cool fast-paced gun’n run 2D platformer coming to Steam 28th March!

On March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 By Neil G

If you’re looking for an upcoming game that is not a retro game but still has that retro vibe, then you’ll pleased to know as thanks to a heads up by Retro Revolution, that they will be releasing their fast-paced gun’n run 2D platformer of ‘ Metaloid:Origin ‘ on Steam 28th March. […]

SPECTRANET – Ethernet based ZX Spectrum device, loads games from the Internet!

On March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 By Neil G

There are many ways to load ZX Spectrum games from real hardware, you can either attach a real tape deck, use your mobile phone OR devices such as the DIVMMC. But what if I told you, you could connect your ZX Spectrum to the internet and launch games. would you be […]

Katana Soul – A new game teased from SEEP devs based on the C64’s 16-color palette!

On March 21, 2019March 22, 2019 By Neil G

Our old friends SEEProduction, creators of those cool beat em up’s and fighting games with famous characters from other well known titles, have just sent us a message from their twitter page that they are going to be releasing a new game this month called ‘ Katana Soul ‘, which […]

RoboZZle64 – A Beta preview of a work in progress C64 Puzzle port

On March 21, 2019March 22, 2019 By Neil G

The image reminds me of something unspeakable… The ZX Spectrum wasn’t the only system to get a port this week, as earlier today we were contacted by the developer Richard-William Loerakker, that he had made available a beta preview of the work in progress puzzle game RoboZZle64. Now if you’ve not heard […]

GALAXY FORCE – Bullet hell shooter inspired by Scramble, playable online

On March 21, 2019March 22, 2019 By Neil G

In March of this year PuzCPC released a very nice side scrolling shoot em up Amstrad port of a much earlier game which was originally released way back in 1983 as Skramble developed by Darrell Etherington. The actual release name was ‘ Scramble ‘ which was also the original name […]

Bridge Strike – Modern ‘River Raid’ on the Amiga gets a digital download pre-order

On March 21, 2019March 21, 2019 By Neil G

As we said before in our previous 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 […]

Spectrum Addict 2.5: The Lost Tapes – Documentary film about the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Computer is a Kickstarter Success!

On March 20, 2019March 21, 2019 By Neil G

Andy Remic certainly knows how to please the retro community, especially through the organising, creating and releasing two incredible ZX Spectrum packed feature documentaries. Both the Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict and Spectrum Addict Load "Film 2" were crowd funded successes. Well now it looks as if he has another […]

Dragonfire ZX – Another Atari 2600 to ZX Spectrum port by Luca Bordoni

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

Another ZX Spectrum port to grace our speccy screens and again from Luca Bordoni using AGDX, is the Atari 2600 game Dragonfire, which was first released in 1982 as another game by Imagic. Yes indeed get ready to play another port, but unlike the other game we mentioned previously, this one puts […]

Atlantis – Atari 2600 fixed shooter ported to the ZX Spectrum

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

Saberman is on the ball again as earlier today he contacted us, to let us know that Luca Bordoni had released a ZX Spectrum port of an Atari 2600 game called ‘ Atlantis ‘. Now if you’ve not heard of this game before considering how old this game is, then […]

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 […]

SpeedBall – Classic The Bitmap Brothers Sports brawler reviewed by DarkwyndPT

On March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 By Neil G

One of the most famous developer studios from the late 80s and early 90s was The Bitmap Brothers. If you had a Commodore Amiga, you know what I’m talking about. The Bitmap Brothers is one of those studios that started small but valued quality over quantity which resulted in fantastic […]