Gridlock – A recommended game by Megastyle for your Commodore 64

by Indie Retro News | Jun 24, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Night Mission Pinball Extended wasn’t the only game to grace our Commodore 64 screens this weekend, as looking through my emails earlier today, I saw that Megastyle had released the C64 sliding puzzle styled game of Gridlock. A game in which the object of each...

Flying Shark – WIP Flying Shark remake for the Commodore Amiga 500 gets a new demo

by Indie Retro News | Jun 23, 2024 | 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

A new Commodore Amiga news story has appeared in our inbox, as we’ve recently found out through the EAB forums, that the previously announced game of Flying Shark. A new Arcade to Amiga remake by Magnus T together with JMD and John Tsakiris(GFX). Has recently...

Skald: Against the Black Priory – A dark fantasy game inspired by classic RPG’s available now!

by Indie Retro News | Jun 15, 2024 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

In the 80’s many of us had the pleasure of playing Ultima IV on the C64, it was arguably one of the best RPG’s ever released which featured a top down playing field with lush landscapes, dungeons to explore, characters to traverse with and many enemies to...

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...

Final Fight Enhanced – An enhanced Amiga AGA/ECS version of a classic Beat ’em up from 1991 (New build available)

by Indie Retro News | Jun 7, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Thanks to another heads up from a good friend of ours, we’ve been told that Prototron and team, have released an updated build of the previously released enhanced version of the 1991 US GOLD published Beat ’em up of ‘Final Fight’ for the Amiga;...

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...