Indie Apps & Games News

Even though we were late in writing this one up as it was Christmas, we are pleased to inform our Indie Retro News readers that if you loved that classic Cartoon of Duck Tales, then you may also be interested… Continue Reading →

The Amiga news just keeps on coming, as we’ve just been told by our good friend Saberman, that at some point during September 2023 the Whatiff Amiga magazine provided a BitBeam Cannon Demo of  ‘Aeon’s Legend’: a demo level to show the… Continue Reading →

Another heads up from Saberman and yet again another Amiga game for all to enjoy, is the latest XMAS edition of ‘Spheroid’ by Arkanix Labs ; a new Christmas version of a game that was originally released as a demo… Continue Reading →

In 1987 Irem produced one of the greatest shoot em ups of our time, a shoot em up that even today is regarded as one of the best. That shoot em up was none other than R-Type. A game which… Continue Reading →

Not content with all the Christmas games ( bah humbug ), then about a rather creepy ZX Spectrum that’s been mentioned to us by Saberman called ‘Johnny The Ghost ‘ by Harald & Marcus Gitzel. An arcade puzzle game in… Continue Reading →

It’s time yet again to mention the festive season, as if you have a Commodore Amiga at hand, we’ve been told by Saberman, that Amiga Cammy has made available an early demo for the work in progress Commodore Amiga game… Continue Reading →

Yet another Commodore 64 heads up for you all, as we’ve recently been informed by Saberman that the previously teased C64 game of Forest Saver by intoinside, has been released with a new 3.1.2 build for you to download and… Continue Reading →

You can just tell it’s Christmas with all these lovely festive games appearing on Indie Retro News, Christmas music being played on the radio, and lights twinkling in your neighbours window. So continue on this very festiveness we’ve been told… Continue Reading →

As it’s Christmas tomorrow and I’m spending time with family, this will be the last article from me for awhile. But before I get tipsy on Southern Comfort, here’s a game you might want to check out on your Commodore… Continue Reading →

Another festive heads up for you all, as if you’ve been following all the news updates regarding NeesoGames Amiga platformer of Super Delivery Boy, then we’ve just been contacted by Saberman, than in celebration of the upcoming Christmas festivities, NeesoGames… Continue Reading →

Castlevania is certainly a game worth mentioning on Indie Retro News, especially with games mentioned such as the Castlevania 30th anniversary NES facelift, Intellivision, and even the incredible Castlevania Spectral Interlude on the ZX Spectrum. Well today’s news is something… Continue Reading →

If you’re not content with all the 8bit news then how about some Amiga news instead? As we’ve just been told by Saberman through Facebook, that Ansimuz together with Fireboy has shown off the latest developments with the Amiga game creation engine… 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 →

Not satisfied with all the Amiga and C64 news that’s been coming into our inbox day after day, then how about this new game for the speccy then called ‘Cursed Castle’ by Fransouls; A brand new ZX Spectrum game in… Continue Reading →

The Amiga is certainly living the high life at the moment, what with all the homebrew games previously released, ones yet to come and of course the many mentions of unreleased games finally seeing the light of day. But there’s… Continue Reading →

Silent Hill 3 can be considered the middle child of the Silent Hill franchise since it’s neither here nor there. It is actually a canonical sequel to the first game, making the Silent Hill 2 more like a spin-off game… Continue Reading →

Way back in 1984 Firebird released the Pirate style Arcade Puzzle game ‘Booty’ for the Amstrad CPC, C64, Commodore Plus/4, and ZX Spectrum. In that game you played as a cabin boy that had to steal treasure from his pirate… Continue Reading →

Chaos Engine from 1993 was an incredible game developed by the very famous Bitmap Brothers. A game that featured one or two players battling it out as a top down shooter genre against the evil creations of the titular Chaos… Continue Reading →

During our many write ups we do love writing about old retro games, especially ones that have never been heard of, or those that have been lost through the years and for one reason or another have been uncovered, much… Continue Reading →

A little known fact about Christmas… Just as Santa is travelling around on his sleigh dishing out presents.. Paul Koller’s elves were stalking the Earth installing extra ram and cpu clock speed into everyone’s C64s while you’re asleep.  There can’t… Continue Reading →

Thanks to yet 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 that looks like a lot of fun to play throughout Christmas, then… Continue Reading →