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Homebrew Pinball Spotlight – by Michael Thomasson
Homebrew games are typically developed by hobbyists and enthusiasts outside of official channels. By and large, they are often “one-offs” and not intended for commercial distribution. Homebrew video games first came to light in 1993, when Harry Dodgson created his own development kit for the Atari 7800 and later modified it for use with the…
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Retro Review: Wii Party U: A Lost Chance
Nintendo caught lightning in a bottle with “Wii Sports” in 2006 and you know what they say about catching it twice. Although the mega publisher had success with “Wii Sports: Resort,” other similar mini-game collections have felt like shallow compilations of tech demos. Nintendo’s newest addition to the genre, “Wii Party U,” isn’t exactly as…
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The Bard’s Tale – One of the earliest RPG’s makes an appearance on the Commodore Plus/4
The Plus/4 World website has surprised us with yet another new recovery! As they have informed the Plus/4 Facebook page, that the 1985 Interplay Productions RPG has been recovered for the Commodore Plus/4 by Csory and Siz. As in the words of the website. "Today, we put a period at the end of a very…
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Timberman – Lumberjack arrives on the Atari XL/XE
LumberJack has appeared on Indie Retro News a number of times over the years, what with Megastyle & Protovision’s C64 release in 2016 and Cobe and Lemming880’s Amiga conversion in 2017. But now it looks as if another version has come into the light, and that is Tomasz "Pecuś" Pecko and Paweł "Pirx" Kalinowski’s Lumberjack game of…
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Lock’N’Chase – 1980’s Arcade game is coming to the Amiga thanks to JOTD
What do Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, Super Bagman, Galaxian500, Super Xevious, Track’N’Field, Gyruss and Burger Time all of have in common? Well apart from all being Arcade games, all of these games were given the Amiga treatment by none other than JOTD. A developer that seems to be on a mission, to port just about…
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Arcade to Console – by Eugenio Angueira
In 1982 Namco released the official sequel to Pac-Man. That game would be Super Pac- Man! Though was the official sequel for the original game, Ms. Pac-Man was developed by General Computer Corporation as an unofficial sequel to Namco’s successful maze game at the request of Midway. Tori Iwatani was in charge of designing this…
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Rick Dangerous 2+ – Classic platformer Rick Dangerous gets an Amstrad CPC Plus conversion and enhancement
The challenging platformer of Rick Dangerous has appeared on many different systems; these include the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and DOS. A game that made you feel like an Indiana Jones character traversing dangerous locations such as caves and temples while avoiding the bad guys and deadly boulders and spiked…
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QUOD INIT EXIT IIo – 9 years in the making and Retream’s colourful C64 sequel is finally here!
In 2015 we gave a special mention to Retream’s Arcade platformer of ‘ QUOD INIT EXIT ‘, a C64 game that had a cute little pig, lots of fast moving fruit and was so colourful you would’ve been silly not to load it up on a C64. Well fast forward to today, and after 9…
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Atari ST- By Peter Fletcher and Bill Lange
olWhen the Atari ST series debuted in 1985 with the Atari 520ST, which was quickly followed by the Atari 1040ST, it represented a significant leap forward in home computing technology, particularly in graphics and sound capabilities. This 16-bit computer line would go on to become especially renowned in Europe’s music and desktop publishing scenes, thanks…
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A review of Pokettohiro! for the Game Boy Color
The Game Boy Studio program by Chris Maltby has inspired a whole new generation homebrew Game Boy developers. David Marin is one of them, having published Pokettohiro! last year through Broke Studios. It’s now available for download on the David Marin’s website here, as well as through the Steam and Switch stores. Truly dedicated…
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