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The ESRB – by Tristan Ibarra
This column / article / retrospective (or whatever you want to call it) is a reflection on why and how we collect and play video games. Each time we’ll cover a different collector (although not in this issue!) and discuss various (sometimes) polarizing topics that affect us. The Origins of the ESRB and American Gaming…
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Retro Style Becomes a Defining Trend in Online Casino Game Design
Studios producing digital table and reel games have made a conscious move in the last five years. The push isn’t toward glossier visuals or more complex UI stacks. It’s the opposite. They’re leaning into what used to be outdated. The pixel look, neon colour bands, 2D character framing, and analogue interface behaviour have re-emerged. This…
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Top Ten Sports Video Games That Made Us Feel Like Champions
There’s something timeless about the thrill of a great sports video game, the pixelated roar of a crowd, the dramatic last-second win, the satisfaction of mastering that perfect volley or goal. Long before today’s hyper-realistic graphics, retro sports games gave us that irreplaceable buzz of being champions from the comfort of our sofas. As gaming…
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From “A Winner Is You!” to the NES Top Loader
Here’s the blunt opener: the same four words that crowned NES champs—“A Winner Is You!”—explain why the best online casino games still hook us today. Fast payoff, crystal-clear feedback, no fluff. That victory flash compressed everything into one clean dopamine hit. Modern online casino sites that copy this cadence—quick win cue, readable tally, back to…
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A Look Back- The Original Pokken Tournament on Wii U Was Awesome
This is not a Pokemon Stadium clone. This is not a cheap Tekken rip-off. This is is Pokken Tournament. One of the best looking Wii U games ever and featuring some of the best fight mechanics on the console to date, Pokken Tournament, at least in a single fight format, is better than Super Smash…
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40 years of the Amiga as an album tribute by Allister Brimble
Something slightly different for today other than all the games I’ve mentioned (Yes I’m looking at you speccy community), as if you want to listen some damn fine tunes that harks back to the glory days of the Commodore Amiga, then you might be interested in checking out this speaker blasting Album of ‘Amiga 40’.…
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Danger Dennis – Devlab/TSA’s single screen platformer is coming to the Amiga and C64
At some point in the near future. Devlab/TSA is going to release the full version of their currently in development arcade single screen platformer of ‘Danger Dennis’ for the Commodore Amiga and C64. A game in which they have described as a jump’n’run game that is loosely inspired by the gameplay mechanics of Mr. Robot…
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Boulder Dash – by Ryan Burger
Boulder Dash is one of the games I distinctly remember playing on my Apple II computer in the mid-80s. Over a span of six years, it was released on nineteen different platforms after originating on the Atari 8-bit series of computers. Developed originally by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray, it is a maze game where…
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Escape from PETSCII Castle – A Wolfenstein 3D inspiration but for the Commodore C64 by Jimbo is teased!
This week we have been flooded with awesome ZX Spectrum games, so to change all that, here’s the latest update from Jimbo, his newest of WIP creations for the Commodore C64 called ‘ Escape from PETSCII Castle’. A Wolfenstein 3D inspiration from the same creator who released other games on different systems such as PETSCII…
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Cindy Block – Smooth gameplay at 50 frames per second on your ZX Spectrum
Kubanoid, ASYMMETRY, Travel Unlimited, and Cubix, aren’t the only games worth shouting about on Indie Retro News for the ZX Spectrum, as here’s another game that’s worth checking out, and it’s the action puzzle game ‘Cindy Block’ by Grongy, Art-top and n1k-o. A game that’s noted by the team as containing, "smooth gameplay at 50 frames per second…
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