Indie Apps & Games News

If you’re fed up with all the Christmas news, then how about this news story that’s just been sent to us by Saberman, it’s S0Y’s latest game development of ‘E.D.F. Special’: An early alpha tease of a new arcade shoot ’em… Continue Reading →

If you just can’t wait for Christmas day and fancy playing a Christmas themed game right now, then you might be interested to know that LC-Games, who was also behind Dig Dug Revival, Bagman Strikes Back and many many others, has released… Continue Reading →

Thanks to another heads up earlier today from both Saberman and Xenomorph, s that Rayon Studio has released a new game enhancement for the previously released Amstrad CPC called ‘Shadow Maze’. A game in which you must traverse a dark… Continue Reading →

We were a bit late on this one but it’s still worth a mention, as thanks to another heads up by Saberman who has just posted a gameplay video, he has told us that EdD has released the rather cool… Continue Reading →

The Secret of Monkey Island developed by Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts) was originally released in 1990 and created by now industry legends Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman. It was a game that has lived on the hearts of… Continue Reading →

If like me, you’re a huge fan of Zelda, then you’ll be happy to know as thanks to a heads up by Tom via Twitter, he has told us that linksawakeningdxhd has made available this incredible looking game of "Link’s Awakening… Continue Reading →

The 1984 game of Tetris has been mentioned many times on Indie Retro News, with new versions of the game being re-released on the Amstrad CPC, C16, Plus/4 and ZX Spectrum. Well here’s another version of the game that is… Continue Reading →

Thanks to Saberman contacting us just moments ago through Facebook, we have been told that Zdenda Zubr, who has created lots of games such as Zdendazuma and Greedy Bat, has released the highly challenging and sometimes frustrating game of ‘Planet Rescue… Continue Reading →

While the weather is still distinctly grim here in the UK with so much rain I might need a boat, there’s one game that I’d recommend anyone who has a ZX Spectrum to pick up and play to pass the… Continue Reading →

We’ve featured Pac-Man so many times now on our website, from Jr. Pac-Man on the Intellivision, to Pac Man The Curse of the Slimers on the ZX Spectrum and even PAC-01 on the MSX. Well here we are with another… Continue Reading →

Thanks to another heads up from a good friend of ours , we’ve been told that if you’re looking for something different to play on your C64 where you can play with a friend, then make sure to check out… Continue Reading →

With Christmas being just a few weeks away you’d expect to see lots of Christmas themed games appearing on Indie Retro News in the lead up to the 25th. Well that’s certainly happening this week, as as another festive game… Continue Reading →

It’s time to move away from the Platform genre and look towards classic Puzzle games for our retro fun, as if you loved the 1984 game of Tetris, you’ll be pleased to know that as of today, you can download… Continue Reading →

As we said before, while many of you have played Shadow Dancer on the Amiga, some of you felt while the game was fun, it was lacking in graphics, noting by many as having an Atari ST colour-palette and no… Continue Reading →

Trawling through the plus/4 world website, we’ve found out that the classic game of ‘Into The Eagle’s Nest’, a game that was released on many different systems such as the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Atari ST,… Continue Reading →

While we have featured a ton of ZX Spectrum games, some of you might be wondering why we haven’t featured anything for the Amstrad CPC. Well worry not! As thanks to Xenomorph contacting us today, we’ve been told that Dave… Continue Reading →

Ultimate Play the Game released many incredible titles in the 80’s, games such as Knightlore, Jetpac, Sabre Wulf and Gunfright to name but a few. But today’s news is something of a special announcement for fans of Ultimate Play the… Continue Reading →

With all the games I’ve featured you’d think the news would slow down, but not so! As after already featuring a lot of games this week and into the weekend along comes the ZX Spectrum game of Isa Brave’ by… Continue Reading →

In 2021 we featured a stunning remaster of a classic game called ‘The Dark’; A game originally developed by Oleg Origin back in 1997, which at the time we said was a rather unique ZX Spectrum first person shooter, that… Continue Reading →

Another retro gaming news story has hit our inbox, as Tom was kind enough to let us know through Facebook, that if you’re looking for a star wars game with plenty of action for your ZX Spectrum, then you might… Continue Reading →

With all the Amiga game announcements this year you’d think the Amiga scene would take a break from announcing new games, but no chance of that any time soon thankfully ;). As darkage software has just given us a heads… Continue Reading →