Microprose – The Retro Gaming Treasury

The Legacy – Exploring

On June 14, 2020June 15, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

In my last post I had just started to seriously explore the starting level. Since then I have made some progress and noted a few things: I found a juju fetish lika a skeletal hand which when hold, protects me from being attacked by the zombies. That helped a lot […]

Master of Orion

On January 24, 2020January 25, 2020 By Jimmy Maher

Given the shadow which the original Master of Orion still casts over the gaming landscape of today, one might be forgiven for assuming, as many younger gamers doubtless do, that it was the very first conquer-the-galaxy grand-strategy game ever made. The reality, however, is quite different. For all that […]

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 […]

Master of Magic – A classic 4x strategy game by Microprose reviewed by DarkwyndPT

On August 23, 2019August 24, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Like I said in my previous review, this time we’ll take a look at one of my personal favourite games of all times and perhaps the most in-depth game I’ve ever played, Master of Magic. Master of Magic is a 4X strategy game developed by Simtex and published by MicroProse. […]

Darklands

On March 22, 2019March 23, 2019 By Jimmy Maher

Darklands may well have been the most original single CRPG of the 1990s, but its box art was planted firmly in the tacky CRPG tradition. I’m not sure that anyone in Medieval Germany really looked much like these two… Throughout the 1980s and well into the 1990s, the genres of […]

The Designer’s Designer

On November 16, 2018November 17, 2018 By Jimmy Maher

Dan Bunten delivers the keynote at the 1990 Game Developers Conference. Dan Bunten and his little company Ozark Softscape could look back on a tremendous 1984 as that year came to an end. Seven Cities of Gold had been a huge success, Electronic Arts’s biggest game of the year, doing […]

F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0

On April 12, 2011September 4, 2018 By The DOS Scholar

Over the USS America, Libyan Theater Bombing the Presidential palace in Baghdad F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 is a combat flight sim released by Microprose in 1991. It’s an “upgrade” of sorts of 1988’s popular F-19 Stealth Fighter game, which was the first flight sim to tackle the mysterious stealth fighter. F-19 was released before anyone outside […]