Intellivision: Independence Holiday Update 2024

by Old School Gamer | Jul 7, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s, Press Release

Happy Independence Day holiday to everyone in the USA, and we hope everyone else is enjoying a great summer! A lot has happened since our last update on Valentine’s day. The biggest news came in a press release at the end of May about our sale of the Intellivision...

Video Game of the Day – July 4th – Independence Day

by Old School Gamer | Jul 4, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade

Hello and welcome! My name is Katosepe and I’ll be your host for today’s Video Game of the Day! If I had more forethought, I would have recorded today’s episode yesterday so you could all hear it on July 4th but oh well. At least I’m recording this on the 4th so happy...

An interview with Dustin Hubbard of Gaming Alexandria

by William Schwartz | Jul 2, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Interviews, Retro Computing, The Story Of...

The history of retro gaming isn’t an especially long one, only going back maybe fifty years, at least if we limit ourselves to retro games as being computers rather than just complex machines. Preservation of this material can be challenging and thankless. All...

Genesis – A rather cool Arcade Shoot ’em up for the ZX Spectrum by Retroworks

by Indie Retro News | Jun 12, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Retroworks are a group of very talented European programmers who make some excellent games for some of our favourite retro computers including the Spectrum, Msx and Amstrad cpc. The Arcade Shoot ’em up ‘Genesis’ for the ZX Spectrum 128k is certainly...

Popeye VBXE – An arcade port, but this time for the Atari XL/XE with VBXE! (RC1)

by Indie Retro News | Jun 5, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Now here’s a blast from the past, as we’ve just been informed by Liqmatrix, that the classic Arcade game of ‘Popeye’, has been released as an RC1 build for the Atari XL/XE with a VBXE as an Arcade conversion by woj. In a similar vein to Donkey...

Spediteur – A turn based business simulator released for the Commodore 64

by Indie Retro News | Jun 3, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Most of the games we feature are either platformers or shoot em ups, but today’s news is something completely different, as Saberman has informed us that WindigoProductions has released the board game styled turn based business simulator of Spediteur for the...