Spediteur – A turn based business simulator released for the Commodore 64

by Indie Retro News | Jun 3, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Most of the games we feature are either platformers or shoot em ups, but today’s news is something completely different, as Saberman has informed us that WindigoProductions has released the board game styled turn based business simulator of Spediteur for the...

Good Kniight – A nod to Hunchback in this new C64 game from Psytronik Software in association with ICON64

by Indie Retro News | May 29, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Trawling through the latest itch io updates for new retro games to play, and we’ve just found out, that Psytronik Software in association with ICON64, have released the new Commodore 64 game of ‘Good Kniight’.A high quality and enjoyable game in...

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...

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...

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...

Galastrad – GALAGA-Like SHMUP Game for the Amstrad CPC and GX4000!

by Indie Retro News | May 17, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Arcade Shooters we just love ’em! From Galaga to 1942, to Xenon and even Swiv. But there’s one Shoot ’em up that caught our eye this month, and that’s the latest release of ‘ Galastrad ‘ for the Amstrad CPC and GX4000. As in the...