Indie Retro News

For gamers of a certain age, few things trigger a rush of pure nostalgia quite like the opening of the classic Ghostbusters theme song. Released during the golden era of 8-bit computing across legendary machines like the Amstrad, Commodore 64, and the ZX Spectrum, the original movie tie-in game remains an absolute touchstone of retro history. Now, one homebrew developer is prepa...

And it's back to the Amiga we go, as looking through itch io we've found out that JOTD has released the first version for the in-progress port of the classic Arcade Game Nibbler for the Commodore Amiga. A game which was originally released back in 1982 in the Arcades and then also ported to systems such as the Amstrad CPC by Mosaik Software in 1984. To coincide with this news pr...

One game I remember so fondly is Cinemaware's fantastic medieval game ' Defender of the Crown ' from 1986. It was released for multiple systems including the Amiga, DOS, NES, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, C64, Macintosh and the Apple IIGS in 1988 with a CD-i version much later on. A grand game for its time and loved by all, has made an appearance on modern systems with a full remaster ...

Raybee has announced a highly ambitious project to bring the iconic 1994 PC DOS shoot-'em-up Raptor: Call of the Shadows over to the Commodore Amiga. Fuelled by 1990s computer science class nostalgia, the creator is spearheading the development process by using AI assistance to translate the original game code and write the necessary Amiga-specific backend. Technically, the proj...

The classic MS-DOS side-scroller Bio Menace, originally published by Apogee Software in 1993, has been un-officially ported over to the Commodore Amiga by Astair86. Amiga owners can now experience Snake Logan's entire pixelated battle against mutant hordes, as this new port features all three original episodes in a completely finished, fully playable state. Because the port util...