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Atari 2600 Donkey Kong: Was This Port TANKED to Make ColecoVision Look BETTER?
Donkey Kong is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo. As Mario, the player runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong. It is the first game in the Donkey Kong series as well as Mario’s first appearance…
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2Tinycowboys – A WIP 2-player single-screen arcade-platformer for the Amiga 500 gets a BIG update
Remember when we featured the first demo for the Scorpion Engine developed game of ‘2Tinycowboys’ by Lord_Santa. Well if you enjoyed it and want more 2-player single-screen arcade-platformer goodness, then you’ll be pleased to know that as of today, you can play the very latest update! An update which features lots of changes, tweaks, new…
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Orbix – Check out this rather unique Commodore 64 game by fleischgemuese!
As you all know we feature as many different games as possible from every walk of retro gaming life. Well today retro gaming news is no exception! As thanks to a heads up by a good friend of ours, we’ve been told that fleischgemuese has released the rather unique Commodore 64 game of Orbix. A puzzle-solving…
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Ruff in Trouble – A high quality nod to RUFF N TUMBLE for the Atari XL/XE is now available for all!
Another nod to a classic, as thanks to Saberman letting us know through Twitter, he has told us that the ABBUC Software Contest 2024 is finished, and shanti77 has made available the RUFF N TUMBLE inspired Atari XL/XE first place winner of ‘Ruff in Trouble’. A nod to a game first released for the Amiga…
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New Images of Dutch Pinball Exclusive’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Good morning everyone. I know that I’ve been quiet here for the past several days. A few 12 hour days in a row at a real job will do that to you lol. I’m finally starting to see the light at the end of the work tunnel and wanted to share some new news on…
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Five Spooky Classic Video Games to Play This Halloween Season (Part One)
As the nights grow darker and Halloween draws near, it’s time to revisit some classic spooky retro games. Fancy graphics are not required since there’s something uniquely eerie about the atmospheric simplicity of retro games. So ignore the doorbell, dim the lights, and keep all that candy for yourself (after all, you did pay for…
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Haunted: Halloween ’87 NES KICKSTARTER
October 25, 2024 (Pittsburgh, P.A.) – October of 2025 will mark the 10 year anniversary of us making games as Retrotainment, and to celebrate we’ll be releasing Haunted: Halloween ’87 (Year of the Witch). It will complete the Haunted: Halloween trilogy on the NES! Haunted: Halloween ’85 was our very first game as a team.…
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Retro Gaming Comeback: Why Gen Z and Millenials Love Playing Nostalgic Games
Since 2020, there’s been a huge global increase in retro gaming. Instead of playing new titles released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, it seems as though players are now much more interested in revisiting the past. This is especially true when it comes to Gen Z and Millenials, who are currently driving…
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Halloween X – The first Halloween game appears, and it’s for the Commodore Amiga
You can certainly tell that Halloween is approaching as more and more creepy games with pumpkins, ghouls and ghosts start to appear for your gaming enjoyment. One such game by the developer 8080 certainly has that ghostly appeal! As they have announced that not only is ‘Halloween X’ a finished game ready to be played…
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Xeno Brigade Extinction – A rather cool looking turn based strategy game for the Spectrum Next (Physical Release Preorder)
Something slightly different for today’s retro heads up, as we were kindly informed on our Facebook page, that if you love high quality turn based strategy games, AND have either a ZX Spectrum Next, N-go, or XBerry-Pi (50Hz) then it might be worth checking out Greenman Soft’s upcoming game of ‘Xeno Brigade Extinction’. A game in…
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