HOMEBREW – Page 3 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Misplaced – A new Megadrive release from RetroSouls

On May 29, 2019May 30, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

RetroSouls that are known for many great homebrew games just released a new title for the Megadrive/Genesis called “Misplaced”. RetroSouls describes Misplaced as a small experimental puzzler. The goal is to collect crystals and placing them on altars to progress to the next level. To help the character to collect […]

Doc Cosmos 2 Adventures in Time – C64 Sequel to the RGCD 16k competition entry Doc Cosmos teased

On May 28, 2019May 29, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

In March of this year shallan64 released a fantastic game for the C64 community which not only featured top quality gameplay as a C64 RGCD 16K entry, but when a powerful time travelling alien device was activated, it switched to two different graphical styles depending on the timeline being used to […]

Vegetables Deluxe – An upcoming colourful overhaul to a fabulous C64 Match 3 game

On May 23, 2019May 24, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Double Sided Games didn’t just announce Winterdane; a first-person rogue type RPG, with randomly generated levels looking like a rather cool dungeon crawler. But they also announced an upcoming game called ‘ Vegetables Deluxe ‘, which yes is also coming to the C64. Now if you’ve heard of this game […]

RGCD officially killing it with 4 new C64 cartridges announced!

On May 18, 2019May 18, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Not happy with continually supporting the Commodore 64 game dev scene with the phenomenal 16KB Cart compo – James Monkman of RGCD announced 4 brand new cartridges. Following 2 official announcements for Retaliate DX and Grid Pix on the RGCD blog page, I spoke to James, who confirmed that the next C64 […]

KRAP PARK – Jaime Grilo’s upcoming ZX Spectrum game features a wicked tune!

On May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Jaime Grilo is certainly no slouch when it comes to making enjoyable ZX Spectrum games, especially with games such as Zukinox, Tea-Leaf Ted and QUAHAPPY under his retro gaming belt. But now after a previous tease in 2018, he’s yet again mentioned his latest upcoming ZX Spectrum game of ‘ KRAP […]

Nono Pixie – Nonogram Puzzle Game for the Commodore 64

On May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The last day of the week and it’s time to rejoice Friday retro heads, as we’ve just been told by a follower on our twitter feed, that Space Moguls has released the final version of a new C64 game called ‘ Nono Pixie ‘. Now if you like puzzle games, […]

NEScape! – Another new cart release on NES launches kickstarter

On May 15, 2019May 16, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Oh you lucky NES fans. Just when we’ve had one amazing NES game deliver it’s kickstarter physical carts, well now, just like busses, along comes another brilliant NES indie game looking to raise funds for a cart production run. NEScape! is a timed puzzle game in the style of an […]

Zzap! 64 Annual 2020 a Kickstarter success, also new The Lord of Dragonspire footage!

On May 14, 2019May 15, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Fabulous news if you’ve supported the latest Zzap! 64 Annual 2020 Kickstarter as not only is it a kickstarter success, but we’ve also been told one of the perks as The Lord of Dragonspire, has also received new footage as a short glimpse of this upcoming game. Yes indeed if […]

Trzask Tensorskiego 64 – A rotating C64 Boulder Dash?

On May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

We’ve certainly featured the 1984 Boulder Dash game a lot these last few months, what with the release of Boulder Dash Junior II The Final Dig and Boulder Dash Senior to name but a few. But what if you could play a Boulder Dash style game, but instead of the game […]

PONG 4K – A wicked Amiga CD32 Pong stye game now as a boxed edition

On May 9, 2019May 10, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

In the 1970’s Bushnell and another guy called Alcorn released a Pong prototype at a local bar named Andy Capp’s Tavern, yet it wasn’t until 1975 and through a long history that Pong actually appeared in our homes, and on my very own Atari 2600. Thankfully others see Pong as […]

Chip Rescue – A new Speccy game from Romancha!

On May 7, 2019May 8, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Another heads up from Saberman and again a ZX Spectrum game, as we’ve just been told Romancha had released a platformer called ‘ Chip Rescue ‘, which works on both 48k and 128k ZX Spectrums. This game that was coded using his own software including excel for sprites, puts you […]

Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death – In development Sega Master System version of a great game teased

On May 3, 2019May 4, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

As many of you were aware by now, Collector Vision Games had released a great game called Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death for the SNES in which you play as Sydney trapped inside an ancient volcanic cavern and the aim to survive and win your freedom. Well if […]

Neutron – Awesome C64 Shoot em up by Sarah Jane Avory gets a release

On May 2, 2019May 3, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Another HOT NEWS story for the C64 community as we’ve just been told Sarah Jane Avory has finally released the wicked looking C64 Shoot em up ‘ Neutron ‘, which can be downloaded as a name your own price game. This game of which we have featured before in relation […]

The Awakening – Oniric Factor teases a new Action Adventure game for the MSX2

On April 29, 2019April 30, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

For those of you looking for some great MSX 2 news, then look no further! As just moments ago we were contacted by one of our friends in the MSX community of a brand new game coming to the MSX 2 called ‘ The Awakening ‘. This early tease showing […]

Rade Blunner Weon Kolalski’s Memories – Episode 1 of a new ZX Spectrum platformer

On April 29, 2019April 30, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Putting aside the C64 news this evening as now we look towards the ZX Spectrum for our retro kicks, as we’ve been told by Saberman that Iadvd has released the first episode of a ZX Spectrum game called ‘ Rade Blunner – Weon Kolalski’s Memories ”. Now if you like platformers as […]

Frantic Freddie II – A highly enjoyable unofficial C64 sequel to a 1980’s classic

On April 29, 2019April 30, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

With so much being released on the C64 last week, you’d think the scene would take a break for a little while, sitting down having a cool drink on a warm day going " Ahhh time to relax " but not so! As on arrival back to writing, we were […]

Aliens: Neoplasma – An Aliens game arriving on the C64 by Digital Monastery

On April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

ZX Spectrum version released 28th Feb While I was having a nice break this weekend I came back to some super duper news, as we were contacted by Eric Majikeyric that Digital Monastery will be bringing the ZX Spectrum homebrew game of ‘ Aliens: Neoplasma ‘ over to the C64. This game […]

Could the Laser Disc version of Dragon’s Lair be coming to the C64 or is this really JUST FOR FUN?

On April 24, 2019April 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Now I remember Dragon’s Lair very well, from the Amstrad version with the jumping of platforms or trying to stay on the spinning disk without being blown off, or the interactive animated version which appeared as a laserdisc in which you needed to press a specific direction at the right […]

Panzer – Strategy game released by Sputnik World for the C64

On April 24, 2019April 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Moving away from the platformers and shoot em ups, we now look towards Sputnik World for our C64 goodness. As unlike those genres, this one is a strategy game set in World War 2 called ‘Panzer’. This game released just recently, pits your tanks against other tanks as you move […]

HOT NEWS! Super Mario Bros has been released on the C64!

On April 18, 2019April 19, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Possibly the best news for this evening and one I really think is going to get those jaws dropping *AGAIN*, is the fact that thanks to a mighty heads up by Jammet, we have been told the C64 version of Super Mario Bros by ZeroPaige is now available for ALL […]