Indie Apps & Games News

Now here’s a blast from the past, as we’ve just been informed that the classic Arcade game of ‘Popeye’, is coming to the Atari XL/XE with a VBXE as an Arcade conversion by woj. In a similar vein to Donkey… Continue Reading →

Although I am not a fan of the Ultimate Play the Games, even if they still do have a huge cult following and classed as a great collectors item. We just had to mention that thanks to our good friend… Continue Reading →

We’ve mentioned lots of text adventure games on Indie Retro News, from games such as Venganza and Spooky Adventure, to Knight Orc and Masquerade. But now another game has appeared which will appeal to gamers who like those sort of… Continue Reading →

BSzili has been mentioned a number of times on Indie Retro News, as not only did he release the Amiga port of BLOOD and Exhumed, but even just recently he made available the work in progress port of Dark Forces!… Continue Reading →

Wonder Boy is a game designed by Ryuichi Nishizawa which started its life as a skateboard rock jumping and axe bashing platformer, that later became the great adventure platformer with RPG elements known as ‘ Wonderboy in Monster Land ‘…. Continue Reading →

We’ve featured Wonderboy many times now on Indie Retro News, from the Amiga version of Wonderboy in Monster Land SE, to the previously released Wonderboy 1200; An Arcade game from 1986 as an unofficial Amiga port by Acidbottle. Well here… Continue Reading →

While the choice is there to still play the awesome remade version of Frogger for the C64 called ‘ Frogger Arcade ‘ by Hokuto Force (Digital Monastery). There’s another version come to light which you may be interested in playing… Continue Reading →

Last week on Indie Retro News we gave you the heads up about a new alpha demo of ‘Rastan’ that was made available by basementApe for the Commodore Amiga. Well fast forward to today and if you’re hoping for some new… Continue Reading →

It feels like it was only just yesterday that we announced through Indie Retro News that BSzili had unofficially released not just the full version of the classic ID Software game of ‘Wolfenstein 3D’ and ‘Spear of Destiny’, but also… Continue Reading →

It is a time to celebrate on Indie Retro News, as not only have we hit a huge milestone in views reaching a staggering 30+ million website hits which doesn’t include Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, but we are also celebrating… Continue Reading →

Castlevania has been mentioned many times on Indie Retro News, with the highlight being the awesome Castlevania Spectral Interlude by Sanchez on the ZX Spectrum! But today news is super special for those of you who own a Commodore Amiga… Continue Reading →

If you loved the 1984 game of Tetris , you’ll be pleased to know a new clone by PPs, Buddy and VinsCool has been released for the Atari XL/XE called Mytris. This game that was announced by us some time… Continue Reading →

Remember those days when seaside resorts had many arcade games to play, from top down shoot ’em ups to nifty little platformers. If you do, then you’ll be pleased to know that you can now download the rather cool homage to… Continue Reading →

When Knights of Bytes released Sam’s Journey for the Commodore 64 back in 2017 it was a huge hit! Indie Retro News awarded Sam’s Journey game of the year 2017 as this game really surpassed all our expectations, delivering us… Continue Reading →

If you’ve been following Indie Retro News throughout these last few years, you would’ve known about Locomalito’s awesome retro styled platformer ‘L’Abbaye des Morts’; a fantastic game which was ported by different teams over to systems such as the OS… Continue Reading →

We’ve been flooded with awesome news this week, from the latest update of Rastan on the Amiga to our personal favourite of Lemmings for the Plus/4. Well once again we have another interesting news story for you all, as Amerbatron… Continue Reading →

It feels like it was only yesterday that we announced that Taito’s 1987 Arcade game of ‘Rastan’ was coming to the Commodore Amiga, thanks to the hard work of basementApe. Well fast forward to today and we have some more news for… Continue Reading →

Lemmings was a game published by Psygnosis way back in the early 90’s for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC and regarded by many as one of the greatest games ever, especially as it featured many blue, green haired Lemmings… Continue Reading →

I’ve mentioned many times now, how much I love old skool Dungeon Crawlers. I’ve even posted about a number of games from my own personal collection such as Eye of the Beholder and my all time favourite Lands of Lore…. Continue Reading →

Allan Turvey aka Highrise is certainly no stranger to Indie Retro News, releasing fabulous games for the ZX Spectrum such as Terrapins RX, Roust, Snowed Under and our personal favourite of InvAGDers Deluxe. Well Highrise is back in the news… Continue Reading →

As I said before, I was pleasantly surprised by how enjoyable Lemming880’s platformer ‘ Boxx 2 ‘ and ‘ Boxx 3 ‘ was on the Amiga system! Especially as not only were they fun games to play, although developed using the… Continue Reading →