Category: Indie Games News
Planeta Sinclar, the Portuguese website dedicated to the ZX Spectrum, and in my opinion, the best one around for the Speccy, has announced the winners of GOTY 2020, the Game of the Year 2020 event that was held online this last Saturday. Other than ranking the best overall games of 2020, the event exalted the best games for different genres…
Retrocomputing and retro gaming continue to get noticed by major news outlets. First was the New York Times with the article The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing published on January 8th, and now Wired Magazine, with the article People Still Really Love the Apple II. Wired’s article is a bit more focused on a game that we are all…
Carleton Handley is almost ready to release his new game Runn ‘n’ Gunn for the Commodore 64, a beautiful action platform set to be released on January 29th. Based on the released footage, the game shows action-packed levels and a beautiful dark environment. You play a super soldier made after fusing Willie Runn and Wally Gunn, two average soldiers. They…
Once again, ZeroPage Homebrew, AtariAge, Mark/Space | Argon and The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion are organizing the Annual Atari Homebrew Awards. The 3rd edition is waiting for your vote for your favourite homebrew games of 2020. As listed in this previous post, the homebrew production for the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, and Atari 8bit/5200 is huge, showing that the game…
Biscuits in Hell was released back in June 2020 by Playsoft/Paul Lay as an exclusive game for ABBUC members, as part of issue #141 of the ABBUC Magazine. Now the game is freely available to everybody via ABBUC public downloads (link at the end). The game was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum in 2017 and the premise is fairly…
DoubleG has released his very first game for the C64. Rabbit Runner is an infinite runner game where you play an insatiable rabbit eating Farmer Wilson’s crop. The rabbit runs along three lanes and must eat the vegetables to keep his energy level high. Since Farmer Wilson’s is not very good at his job, the crop is full of bad…
We are very close to Xmas and I’ve thought it would be fun if we have a post showing the Xmas-inspired games that are released or will be released during the 2020 Holiday season. As more games are released, I will be updating this post which is pinned at the top of the site! A Very Sheepy Xmas by Quantum…
Since I wasn’t a British kid in the 80s and never owned a ZX Spectrum until recently, iconic characters like Monty Mole, Miner Willy, or Dizzy don’t bring me any nostalgia as they do to many of you. I think this is a good thing because I can enjoy many of these games with fresh eyes and an open mind,…
After years of active development, 6502 Workshop has finally launched one of the most anticipated games in the retro gaming community. Starting today, December 12th, 2020, you can buy Nox Archaist for your Apple II. The game also includes a custom emulator so that you can run it on your PC or Mac with no hassle! Nox Archaist is a…
River Raid was, alongside Missile Command and Enduro, one of the games I played the most on my Atari 2600. The thrill of trying to go just a little ahead and get that another bridge and the frustration of dying when going through some of the narrower paths just kept me going back and replay the game many, many times….
