Pacman RX – Another Pacman game appears and this one is a conversion by happycodingzx for the ZX Spectrum

by Indie Retro News | Jul 31, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

I said to myself I wasn’t going to feature any more Pac-Man games, especially as we’ve featured it so many times now with systems being mentioned such as the Atari 2600, Commodore Amiga, Intellivision and even the one that appeared on the Pico-8! Well...

Holy Heroes – Coming soon to Steam

by Old School Gamer | Jul 30, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Press Release

The game Holy Heroes was conceived out of a passion for Dungeon Master (MSX), 1986, ASCII – Eiichi Saida. The production of Holy Heroes was meticulously crafted to stay true to the DM niche, preserving excellent gameplay as much as possible. However, various...

Ami-H.E.R.O – An Amiga game inspired by Activision’s 8bit game H.E.R.O gets a much needed update

by Indie Retro News | Jul 24, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Ask anyone about H.E.R.O, and I’m sure many would share their memories about this great game. A game which was released way back in the 1980’s for the Atari 800/2600, 7800, ColecoVision, C64, C128 and ZX Spectrum! Well if you do remember it and would like...

Antstream Arcade Retro Gaming History II: The Super Game Boy

by Antstream Blog | Jul 22, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Antstream

It seemed like the perfect gaming idea – take the hugely popular Nintendo Game Boy and enable gamers to combine its games with the also-hugely popular Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Antstream Arcade digs into the archives to unearth the history of Nintendo’s...

A Look Back at Earthworm Jim 2

by William Schwartz | Jul 17, 2024 | 1990s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Reviews

A lot of what resonates about retro video games is their degree of nonsense- weird design quirks that might have made sense to the original programmers, but certainly not to anyone else, and are only slightly more bizarre in retrospect than they were in their original...

2005 Mobile game ‘Doom RPG’ comes over to the Amiga 1200 and above

by Indie Retro News | Jul 16, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Here we are with another special announcement, as if any of you remember the 2005 mobile phone game of ‘Doom RPG’; a game developed by Fountainhead Entertainment combining the Doom first-person shooter franchise with role-playing video game elements. Then...