Games – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Montezuma’s Redux – 1980’s Atari 8-bit Platforming classic, overhauled

On June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Even more great retro gaming news for this week, as we have just learnt that TIX with the help of Paul Lay, has released an Atari XL/XE rom hack of ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’, which overhauls the game giving it new lease of life. Montezuma was originally released in the early 80’s […]

Missed Classic: Moonmist – Representation Blues

On June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich I intended to wrap up Moonmist this week by closing out on the three remaining cases then moving quickly to the final rating. I did not make it. When playing and reviewing, I try to come to these games as unspoiled as I can. I learn […]

BlitzWays – A brand new Amiga 500 game from Sebastian Hartmann

On June 29, 2020June 30, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

It’s the Amiga’s time to shine once more, as moving away from the Shadow of the Beast inspiration of EON, we’ve been contacted through our email from the developer himself, that Sebastian Hartmann has announced the release of the Amiga game BlitzWays; a brand new Amiga game as an oldschool […]

ZetaWing – Another Shoot em up incoming for the C64 from Sarah Jane Avory

On June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

While many of you are still eagerly awaiting Sarah Jane Avory’s upcoming RPG of ‘Briley Witch Chronicles’, and of course the brilliant looking Shoot em up of ‘Soul Force’. You may be interested to know that the ex-SEGA game developer and author, has just released the latest footage for the […]

The Sword of Ianna – An incredible game is now available on the Amstrad CPC

On June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

This year has been all out awesome for retro goodness, what with Red Sunset being released on the Amstrad, and of course the usual eye opening C64 and Speccy games doing the rounds. But if you have an Amstrad CPC and want more for your 8bit game time, you’ll be […]

EON AMIGA AGA – Shadow of the Beast inspiration is coming to an Amiga near you

On June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

With another week ahead of us full of great retro games, we were contacted this weekend from Solo, that Goblins, AmigaWave and Wonderboy Bobi, have teased a new video for their upcoming Amiga AGA game called ‘EON’ . This game which was first officially announced back in Jan of last […]

Make My Day game fully recovered

On June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 By fgasking

Following on from the release of Mirage, we are pleased to announce the preservation and recovery of yet another title in the form of Make My Day. A full diagonal scrolling Western game which was intended for Power House back … Continue reading →

The Black Gate: Of Valor and Virginity

On June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 By CRPG Addict

Surreptitiously awarding the Rune of Valor to Kliftin of Jhelom. The more Gideon thinks about it, the more he doesn’t really like having a death-dealing demon bound up in his sword. The question is what to do about it. Ideally, there would be some magic ritual that would simultaneously […]

Game 121: Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (1993): Introduction

On June 28, 2020June 28, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

by Alex Hello there, dear The Adventure Gamer family. I am back after a long absence to review another game, and another Al Lowe game, but this time it’s not an entry in the Leisure Suit Larry series. No, I’m leaving my polyester pal behind and traveling to the old […]

Game 371: Amberstar (1992)

On June 26, 2020June 27, 2020 By CRPG Addict

I suspect the title font is in amber, but someone let me know for sure. Amberstar Germany Thalion Software (developer and publisher) Released 1992 for Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS Date Started: 20 June 2020 Amberstar is the first game I […]

Cold Steel (Super Nintendo)

On June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 By fgasking

1992 Ocean Software Brian Flanagan has been in the games industry for over 30 years, working on well over 40 shipped titles. He once worked at Ocean Software for around 10 years, working (uncredited) on Operation Wolf and then infamously … Continue reading →

SolarGladiators – A brand new Windows game from MALDITA CASTILLA creator Locomalito

On June 25, 2020June 26, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Fabulous news has just hit our inbox, as Locomalito, the same designer behind games such as the fantastic Ghouls ‘n Ghosts style game of Maldita Castilla, the awesome shoot em up teamed up with Gryzor87 for ‘Super Hydorah’, and the more recent release of Darkula; a frantic fixed platform game […]

Robot Jet Action – An upcoming game created by C64portal.pl for the C64 gets a new update tease

On June 25, 2020June 26, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Even more C64 games to get through this week, as we’ve been informed by Tomek that the upcoming game ‘Robot Jet Action’ by C64Portal, has been shown off with another teaser preview giving us a new look at the gameplay, level creation, worlds, music, character design and enemies. Although they […]

THE LAST AMAZON TRILOGY – Three full enhanced SEUCK games for your C64!

On June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

It has been a bit quiet on the retro front, but thankfully today brings us some newish goods. As trawling through the itch.io website, we’ve come across a release from Psytronik Software called ‘ The Last Amazon Trilogy ‘. This pack according to the website, is an awesome release for […]

Game 124: Ecoquest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest (1993) – Introduction

On June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Almost four years ago, I covered the original Ecoquest here on the blog, and now we’ve arrived at the sequel: Lost Secret of the Rainforest. Instead of diving deep below the sea, this time we’ll be exploring the rainforest. You may remember that Ecoquest had a bit […]

The Black Gate: La Forge

On June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 By CRPG Addict

I have a feeling we’re going to regret this. So far in our chronology, expansions have been rare enough that we haven’t devoted any significant time to them. Although not common, they are nearly as old as CRPGs themselves. The first that I can identify for sure two 1981 […]

OrbQuest: Assisted Win!

On June 22, 2020June 23, 2020 By CRPG Addict

The entry for OrbQuest (back in March) has been updated with some information from LanHawk, who managed to win the game with the character that I abandoned on the threshold of victory.

Red Sunset – A rather cool Amstrad 128K Shoot em up is released by ESP Soft

On June 22, 2020June 23, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Listen up Amstrad owners have we got a special treat for you! As this week thanks to a heads up via our twitter page, we have found out that ESP Soft has released the full version of their classy shoot em up called ‘ Red Sunset ‘. This game which […]

Sam’s Journey by Knights of Bytes gets a new NES Jet Pack teaser!

On June 22, 2020June 23, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

As we said before when Knights of Bytes released Sam’s Journey for the Commodore 64 back in 2017 it was a huge hit! Indie Retro News awarded Sam’s Journey game of the year 2017 as this game really surpassed all our expectations, delivering us a huge epic adventure that really […]

Biscuits in Hell – A game originally on the ZX Spectrum is now on the Atari XL/XE

On June 22, 2020June 23, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Even more Atari games to get through, as thanks to another heads up by Saberman, he has let us know that Paul Lay, Darryl Guenther and Jaden, has released the Atari XL/XE conversion of the ZX Spectrum game called ‘Biscuits in Hell’; A game originally created by Dave Hughes that was […]