ATARI ST – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Pirates! – DarkwyndPT’s BIGGEST retro gaming review yet!

On September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Ahoy there mateys! Welcome back to Retro Freak Reviews. And before ye all send me down to Davy Jones’ locker for not posting a review during the entire summer, let me redeem my sinner soul by offering ye this fine review in this finest of International Talk Like a Pirate […]

Athanor 2 – The Legend Of The Birdmen – A new adventure game coming to the Amiga!

On July 11, 2019July 12, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

If you’re bored of hearing about action games and platformers then listen up, as we’ve just found out Safar Games will be bringing the text based adventure game ‘ Athanor 2 – The Legend of the Birdmen ‘ , to the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga with the game being […]

Populous – A brilliant Strategy game reviewed by DarkwyndPT

On June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Well, it isn’t too hard to figure out which Bullfrog game I’ll start reviewing for this retrospective. And it’s only fair that I start with Bullfrog’s first and possibly biggest success ever: Populous. Populous is a managerial/strategy game developed by Bullfrog and published by Electronic Arts. It was originally released […]

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 […]

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 […]

SimCity – DarkwyndPT takes a look at multiple versions of Sim City in this BIG review!

On January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 By Neil G

And again we’re going to take a look at not just a true classic game, but also a highly influential title that helped define an entire genre, spawned several clones and influenced several other titles. I’m talking about the one and only SimCity. SimCity is a simulation/managerial game developed by […]

Iceblox Plus – Charming little puzzle game ported to the Atari ST

On January 8, 2019January 8, 2019 By Neil G

It’s not often we get mobile games ported over to old retro computers but at the end of last month Karl Hornell released his cute homebrew puzzle game Iceblox Plus for the Atari ST, after previously being released for the C64, designed originally for mobiles such as the Sony Ericsson, […]

Crownland – High grade homebrew platformer is getting an Atari ST conversion

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

Way back in 2007 a platformer by the name of Crownland was released for the Atari 8bit by LaResistance, which came second place in the ABBUC Software Contest and blew us away with high quality graphics and superb platforming game play. Well fast forward to this month however and this […]

R0x Zero – A gorgeous Atari ST/STE playable demoscene shmup

On November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 By Neil G

It’s easy to forget that the Atari ST has a demoscene since it’s usually the Amiga that get all the demo attention. but take a look at R0x Zero. A brilliant playable SHMUP built into the usual demo fare of scrolling text and bouncing blitter objects. It’s a thing of […]

Starquake Amiga port from ST Finally Lands! First Look

On November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 By Neil G

For whatever reason, there’s a whole swathe of titles that got releases on the Atari ST back in the day, but not on the Amiga. Given the platforms similarities you’d think a port would be a no brainer. indeed, many games just got simple ports from the base ST version […]

Starquake for the Commodore Amiga – Ltd Edition available for order!

On November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 By Neil G

In 2016 we were the first to announce another of Chris Wilkins Kickstarters regarding The story of the Commodore Amiga in pixels, which as always was a resounding success hitting a very respectable £60,890 goal. Well fast forward to this week however and although this article isn’t so much about […]

Alternate Reality Intro Music Recreation Last Half – A euphoric melody remake of a 1980’s RPG

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

Through all the years of playing games, what stands out the most isn’t always the gameplay, but that soundtrack that plays in the background to set the tone of the game being played. The creepyness of Silent Hill, the upbeat tempo of Arkanoid on the C64, or even the melody […]

The Atari ST and The Creative People Vol. 3 – The third in the Atari ST book trilogy gets a crowd funding campaign

On October 19, 2018October 19, 2018 By Neil G

Great news Atari ST owners as if you’ve been backing Marco A. Breddin’s ‘The Atari ST and The Creative People’ book crowd funding campaigns and had already received them, you’ll be pleased to know he has launched a new campaign for the third in the trilogy as The Atari ST and The […]

FROGS – C64 4 player homebrew classic gets an Atari ST demo tease

On October 5, 2018October 6, 2018 By Neil G

In 2017 we announced the release of the C64 4 player game ‘ Frogs ‘ which was developed by Christian Gleinser of Dr. Wuro Industries as a great game in which you play as a little frog that has to jump across from rock to lily pad, while trying not […]

Defender of the Crown – All time classic game by Cinemaware is coming to the Atari Jaguar (Pre-order!)

On September 18, 2018September 19, 2018 By Neil G

One game I remember so fondly is Cinemaware’s fantastic medieval game ‘ Defender of the Crown ‘ from 1986. It was released for multiple systems including the Amiga, DOS, NES, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, C64, Macintosh and the Apple IIGS in 1988 with a CD-i version much later on. A […]

FROGS – C64 4 player homebrew classic is coming to the Atari STe!

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

DAAD Adventure Writer – Text based adventure game creator, fully recovered after 30 years!

On September 10, 2018September 10, 2018 By Neil G

A great piece of news has just hit our inbox, as we’ve recently been contacted by Stefan Vogt, the same creator behind the recently updated brilliant science fiction game Hibernated 1: This Place is Death. That he has recently announced the DAAD Adventure Writer has been fully recovered, extended and released […]