The History of Ultima Part 1: Humble Beginnings and Zip-Top Bags

by Jarrod Kailef | Sep 29, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Apple 2, Retro Computing

The humble plastic zip-top bag is great for storing a sandwich, but what does it have to do with old school gaming? Quite a bit, in fact! Back in 1979, a young man programmed a video game that was distributed in a zip-top bag, which would come to spawn a trilogy of...

POING Ultra – A wacky PONG game makes its appearance on the C64!

by Indie Retro News | Sep 27, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

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....

Stern Pinball Launches New James Bond 007 Pinball Machines

by Stern PInball | Sep 22, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s, Pinball, Press Release

Click here for all Access look at the new pinball machines Click here for the Stern Insider website Clock here to shop Stern Clothing 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Limited to 1,000 machines globally, the highly collectible cornerstone Limited Edition includes an...

Puzzle Bobble – ACIED, NM1564 and Hend’s C64 release of the Arcade classic gets a new v1.21 update

by Indie Retro News | Sep 21, 2022 | 1970s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Remember when we featured the exclusive news story of the brand new Arcade conversion of Puzzle Bobble, which was released for the Commodore 64 thanks to ACIED, NM1564 and Hend as a 100% replica of the Puzzle Bobble arcade version? Well here’s some great news...

Old School Gamer Celebrates 5 Years and Wants to Raise It’s Game

by Old School Gamer | Sep 8, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Console/Handheld

Press Release About Kickstarter Old School Gamer has been publishing it’s retro gaming magazine for the last five years.  Covering video gaming from its beginnings in the 1970s until the late 1990s, Old School had published 29 issues and is due for it’s 30th issue to...

Black Dawn Rogue – The next Amiga AGA game in the Black Dawn Saga gets another tease

by Indie Retro News | Aug 5, 2022 | 1970s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

We’ve featured many Dungeon Crawlers on Indie Retro News, from Black Dawn Rebirth which is a high grade crawler as the 7th episode of the Black Dawn Dungeon Crawler/RPG series by Colin Vella, Shaun Watters, Ten Shu and Mike Richmond. To ‘ The Shadows of...