Category: Retro News
Popular indie games Indie games site Itch.io has just launched it’s week summer sale, offering over 600 titles with up to 75% off! Whether it be battling monsters for loot in Rogue Empire ($7.64), or turning enemy pilots to dust in Starblast ($4.99), there’s a huge range of titles to check out. Gamers looking to pick up a bargain and experience some of…
Lost in Worlds is a new cutesy Russian platformer by Nihirash. The first (and hopefully not the last) game by coder Alexander Sharikhin, Lost in Worlds was created using the Platform Game Designer engine, which was released in 2005 by Jonathan Cauldwell, also the creator of AGD, currently the most used game creation engine for the ZX Spectrum. In Lost…
I know what you’re gonna say, “not another one”. Yes we have had our fair share of Retro books in the past, however, it cannot be denied that these books bring back that nostalgia feeling of a child growing up, and there is always more room for feeling young again. Kieren Hawken is releasing a new book titled “8-bit on…
ArcadeVision is set to release Risky Rick in Dangerous Traps for the ColecoVision console, a brand new 32K game which aims to pay tribute to Core Design’s Indiana Jones wannabe, Rick Dangerous. Coded purely in assemble language, the developers are keen to emphasise the amount of work that has gone into this particular game, pushing the hardware to the limit…
Psytronik Software are very proud to announce the release of the eagerly awaited Organism for the Commodore 64. Now available for instant digital download and physical cassette or disk pre-order. The backstory to Organism is that the UTS Heracles, a military grade transport container traveling through space on a 6 month journey to a military station located on the Outer…
Psytronik Software are pleased to announce the release of Rocky Memphis: The Legend of Atlantis in digital download and physical cassette/disk formats. The Legend of Atlantis sees you take on the role of Rocky Memphis who has to explore the ancient temple ruins to find the secret of the lost city of Atlantis. To complete your quest you will need…
SNK has finally revealed concrete details regarding it’s up-and-coming NEOGEO mini console unit. In an update to the company’s website, the console now has a release date of Summer 2018, designed to celebrate SNK’s 40th anniversary. Pre-orders for the console expected to commence in the near future, with links to Amazon displayed on the site’s homepage. For anyone unfamiliar with…
Fans of Sega’s jug-eared, one-time mascot might be interested to hear that Domarius Games has just released a Alex Kidd in Pico World for the PICO-8 Fantasy console. For those unfamiliar with the PICO-8, it is a virtual machine designed and developed by Lexaloffle Games primarily as a platform for learning about, developing and creating games for a machine with…
The 2018 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition deadline is just around the corner, and nothing less than 20 contestants have already submitted their games. Since we are all very busy keeping real life and retro gaming in balance, wouldn’t be great if there is a good summary somewhere giving you a quick overview of all of them? Thankfully, Ausretrogamer thought the…
To celebrate the success of the first two issues of The Unauthorized Atari 2600 Throw Back Zine, Mike Salzman has announced that he is giving away Atari 2600 trading cards. To get one entirely free (US and Canada only), you just need to fill out the form linked at the end of this article. The first and second issues sold incredibly well…
