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Operation Steel Rain – This WIP mech platformer for the Amiga looks rather cool (+DEMO)
Even though it’s still Jan, already we’ve had so many Amiga game news stories, that at times I could hardly keep up! Games such as Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja, Castlevania AGA, Tracker Hero and WIZONK are just some of the ones I’ve featured already. Well the Amiga news just keeps on going. As I’ve been…
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LightTheLEDs – A new Amiga puzzler from Skinny Marley creator Toolzzi
JOTD isn’t the only developer who is hard at work creating new Amiga games, as looking through the Commodore Amiga Facebook group, we’ve just found out that Toolzzi. Who was also behind games such as Skinny Marley, Cat Hunts Rats and Skinny Marley Waiter Dog. Has released a new Commodore Amiga Puzzler of ‘LightTheLeds’. A true tribute to…
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Intellivision Thunder Castle | Swords & Sorcery in an Ever-Changing Maze!
Thunder Castle is a 1986 maze video game for the Intellivision. The player controls a knight navigating three mazes, defeating enemies to progress. To defeat the enemies, the knight must interact with objects throughout the maze before interacting with them. The game was designed by David Warhol. It was initially going to be shipped by…
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Grinding: Mindless Filler, or A Different Kind of Fun?
With the appearance of the role-playing game on video consoles, a genre less about actual role-playing and more about navigating enemy dungeons via numbers rather than reflexes, we also saw the appearance of grinding. How grinding works is simple enough. If your statistics aren’t good enough to defeat an enemy boss, just defeat enough…
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SEGA trademarks Skies of Arcadia, Eternal Arcadia in Japan
SEGA filed trademarks for Skies of Arcadia and Eternal Arcadia on January 16 in Japan, which were made public on January 24. Read More From: N4G: retro news feed
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HOT NEWS : Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja conversion is in the works via JOTD for the Amiga
Well this is incredible news!! As an IndieRetroNews reader, has recently informed us in our comments feed, that JOTD is now working on a Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja Arcade conversion for the Commodore Amiga (AGA). Although it’s still in a very early stage of development, and the original Amiga version of the game was regarded…
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The PlayStation Portable – by Todd Friedman
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is handheld game console developed by Sony. It was first announced at E3 in 2003 and shown to the public in ay of 2004. It was released in Japan on December 12, 2004, and in North America on March 24, 2005. The PSP primarily competed with the Nintendo DS as part of…
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Rogul – Hack’n’Slash Roguelike for the Atari XL/XE by Bocianu with music by PG
Roguelike. Just the word brings up thoughts of ascii based dungeon crawlers with esoteric early ’80s User Interfaces that have the steepest of learning curves that have more complexity than a B-52 cockpit. There are hundreds if not thousands of roguelike projects, each with their own unique spin on the classic formula. Rogul is one…
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The 20th Anniversary of the Nintendo DS – By Matthew Owen
In the early ’00s, Nintendo was in dire need of a sales boost. For years, Sony had been dominating the market with the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, while Nintendo’s own GameCube failed to meet expectations. Competition was getting more crowded in the console space too, as Microsoft launched their original Xbox to great acclaim. So,…
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Donkey Kong Country: RARE’s Gorilla Turns 30
Donkey Kong is an iconic Nintendo character with a storied history, transforming from villain to hero over the course of his existence. Though he made his menacing debut in arcades, Donkey Kong has since become a goofy character prime for comedic relief, so much so that Seth Rogen recently voiced DK in the Super Mario…
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