King and Balloon – A 1:1 arcade port teased for the Commodore Amiga 500 (beta v.092 now available)

by Indie Retro News | May 27, 2024 | 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

I thought it would be best to give another shout out for this addictive yet simplistic little game called ‘King and Balloon’ by RMJ & JoeJoe. A 1:1 arcade port of Namco’s 1980 game for the Commodore Amiga, which was written in 68k assembler and...

THE400 Mini Atari Press Kit is PACKED with SURPRISES!

by GenX Grownup | May 26, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, GenX Grownup, Press Release

Atari brings the computer age home. Again! Welcome back to the Atari 8-bit world of computing! The powerful Atari 400 set a new standard of capability with its release in 1979, and along with its subsequent models, has been loved by gamers and computer enthusiasts for...

Phoenix – 1980’s Arcade game by Taito for the Amiga via JOTD gets an AGA update!

by Indie Retro News | May 24, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

As we said before, JOTD has created some amazing conversions/ports over the years. Games such as Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, Tetris 1200 (AGA), Super Bagman, Galaxian500 and our personal favorite Super Xevious. Well if you’ve been following all of our updates of...

Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand

by Old School Gamer | May 23, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s, Press Release

May 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today it has purchased the Intellivision brand and certain games from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. Intellivision...

Atari Revives Infogrames as a Publishing Label

by Atari News Feed | May 20, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari

NEW-YORK (April 23, 2024 – 2:00 ET) – Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today it has established a new publishing label under the Infogrames brand. In launching the new label,...

Mikie – An Arcade classic appears on the Atari XL/XE by Krzysztof “Vega” Góra and team

by Indie Retro News | May 19, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

The awesome news just keeps on coming! As we’ve recently been contacted by a good friend of ours through Facebook, that the brilliant Arcade game of ‘Mikie’ by Konami, with 8bit versions by Imagine. Has been ported over the Atari XL/XE by Krzysztof...