Rolling Thunder – A classic Arcade game gets a big speed improvement from McGeezer (Amiga)

by Indie Retro News | Jan 12, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

McGeezer has been a name mentioned many times on Indie Retro News, as he has not only released some really amazing games such as the Arcade conversion of Rygar, the Arcade conversion of Turbo Sprint and Bomb Jack Beer Edition (link), but as from May or June he is also...

Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside BOKURA: planet

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jan 1, 2025 | 2020s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Interviews, The Story Of...

Old School Gamer Magazine chats with BOKURA: planet developer Tokoronyori to find out all about the fun adventure/puzzle game with retro visuals. About: BOKURA: planet: BOKURA: planet, the sequel to the reality-bending co-op-only adventure with more than half a...

Old Towers – RetroSouls seriously cool ZX Spectrum game arrives on the Famicom/NES with a version 1.1

by Indie Retro News | Jan 1, 2025 | 1990s, 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you’ve been following RetroSouls for awhile you would’ve known they have released games such as GLUF, Old Tower, Twinlight, Alter Ego, and even Tourmaline for the ZX Spectrum. Well today as thanks to a heads up via Facebook, we have been told that they...

Lord of the Orb – XaVeR adds even more levels to a classic 1985 game by Antic Software

by Indie Retro News | Dec 29, 2024 | 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Here on Indie Retro News we do love writing about the Atari XL/XE, I mean seriously we can’t stop featuring the latest games released for this system. Well here we are with another story sent to us by Saberman, and it’s the latest new level update for the...

Tetra Zone – A modern take on a classic WIP for the Commodore Amiga

by Indie Retro News | Dec 26, 2024 | 2000s, 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you’ve played the 1980’s hit game of Tetris then you’ll be pleased to know that as of this morning, we have been informed that you can now download Wei-ju Wu’s WIP Commodore Amiga game of Tetra Zone. As in the words of the creator “a...

A Very Hairy Christmas – A modern HD debut of Mr Hair for the PC by Langford Productions

by Indie Retro News | Dec 24, 2024 | 2010s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

We’ve just received word from our good friend Richard of Langford Productions, of a new PC game that has been released called ‘A Very Hairy Christmas’. A game which doesn’t just have nods to other classic games from the 80’s such as...