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    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Movie: From Mullet to Morphin’

    The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were a cultural phenomenon in the early ‘90s. Because of that, it should come as no surprise that video games based on the series appear on every console of the era and have their own legacy as well. While it’s easy to have mixed sentiments about the plethora of spin-offs…

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    A Late Look: Paper Mario

    VGChartz’s Mark Nielsen: “Welcome to A Late Look, a series of article where I take a belated look at games from yesteryear that I missed out on the first time around. Not quite review and not quite rant, its more a casual assessment of what I the gamer of the future consider to be each…

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    Flood – Rescue people trapped by the flood in this new ZX Spectrum 48k game by Jonathan Cauldwell

    Thanks to another heads up by Saberman who posted a gameplay video earlier today, he has told us that Jonathan Cauldwell has released the ZX Spectrum 48k game of Flood! A game in which you have to pilot your helicopter, take out the Aliens, and rescue people that have been stranded due to an ever…

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    Atari 2600 Starmaster: Activision’s Take on an Atari’s First-Person Space Shooter

    Starmaster is a video game written for the Atari 2600 by Alan Miller and published in June 1982 by Activision. The game is similar to Atari 8-bit family game Star Raiders. Starmaster was not ported to other systems, but has been re-released in collections such as Activision Anthology. Miller programmed other Atari 2600 games for…

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    Dragowfall – A nod to 80’s Intellivision games by Heracleum for the PC ( Online too! )

    A rather unusual bit of news this afternoon, as thanks to a heads up by a good friend of ours, we’ve been told it might be worth checking out this downloadable and online playable game mash up of Dragowfall. What makes this game worth checking out you ask? Well according to the website, Dragowfall is a…

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    Galaga – Arcade classic is still coming to the Commodore Amiga as a conversion by JOTD

    Remember when we posted about the 1981 Arcade classic of ‘ Galaga ‘ was coming to the Atari XL/XE and Atari 5200 as a high quality Arcade port by Gimmee99? Well you’ll be happy to learn that if you have a Commodore Amiga however, this game originally developed and published by Namco Japan and by…

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    Stern Pinball Reveals JAWS Accessories

    Today at Noon Eastern Stern Pinball lifted the veil off of its line of accessories for its JAWS pinball machine. The new add-ons for the game are as follows: Topper: $999.99 Art Blades: $99.99 Shooter Knob: $149.99 Armor: $249.99 Speaker Light Kit: $199.99 “Stern Pinball’s monster hit game JAWS just got better with these newly…

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    15 Things 90s Gamers Will Remember Fondly

    The 90s. A glorious time when jeans were baggy, the internet was a screaming banshee over dial-up, and gaming was a pixellated wonderland of straightforward joys and excruciating difficulties. For those who navigated the wild, wild web of the 90s gaming scene, here are some nostalgic gems that will have you reaching for that dusty…

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    Galagish – A Galaga clone is in the works for the Atari XL/XE and Atari 5200

    We’ve featured Galaga on Indie Retro News a number of times already, there was the Atari 2600 port, the excellent demake on the Amiga by Pink and Fade One and then the more recent C64 release by Arlasoft. Well fast forward to today however and there’s another Galaga game to come which I think you’ll…

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