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...

An interview about all 1041 (or is it 1042?) Famicom Games

by William Schwartz | May 18, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld, Interviews

Pretty much every video game loving child of the eighties dreamed of being able to play every single Famicom game. Well, RndStranger (real name David Mathis) of YouTube actually went and did it, completing an exhaustive 1,041 episode series about every single Famicom...

TAITO is Back & Better Than Ever in TAITO Milestones 3!

by Todd Friedman | May 18, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Press Release

May 18th, 2024 – We won’t slow down just yet – the ININ x TAITO partnership continues to heat up! ININ, in collaboration with TAITO, is thrilled to announce the third instalment in the TAITO Milestones series, made exclusively for the Nintendo Switch! TAITO...