Highway Encounter – 80’s retro shooter comes over to the Atari XL/XE!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
In 1985 Vortex Software released the puzzle shooting game ‘ Highway Encounter ‘ for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 64. It was voted in the top 100 ZX Spectrum games of all time and featured not just personal lives that look like Dalek’s, but the use of these extra lives to push
- Published in ATARI
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Atari XE, Atari XL, GAMES, Hightway Encounter, Labels: ATARI, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, Zx Spectrum
Rikki & Vikki – A cool puzzle platformer coming to Atari 7800 ProSystem and Steam(26th Dec)
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
If you’re looking for a game that really stands out on the Atari 7800 Prosystem, or just want to play a rather cool puzzle platformer on Steam, then look no further than Rikki & Vikki by PenguiNet, which is due to be released 26th Sept(Steam) and January 14, 2019(Atari 7800 Pro). In this game you play as Rikki
- Published in ATARI
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Atari 7800, Atari 7800 Pro System, Labels: ATARI, PC, PenguiNet, Retro Gaming, RETRO INSPIRED, Retrogaming, Rikki & Vikki
A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year from Indie Retro News
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Here we are again with another Christmas and what a year it has been, full of incredible indie games, new homebrews, and lots of retro specials that have amazed even our own writers! From C64 games such as Aviator Arcade II, Portal, L’Abbaye des Morts 64, Caren Thank You Edition 2018, Organism, Limbo, Sizzler, and even Rocky Memphis
- Published in ATARI
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AMSTRAD, atari, c64, CHRISTMAS, Happy Christmas, INDIE RETRO NEWS, Labels: Amiga, Merry Christmas, PC, Zx Spectrum
Combat – Atari 2600 two player tank battler has arrived on the Atari 8bit
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Great news indeed especially if you grew up on the Atari 2600 as well as the much later Atari 8bit as you’ll be overjoyed to hear Avery “Phaeron” Lee has released the Atari 2600 classic ‘ Combat ‘ over to the Atari 8bit. This well known game and a collectors item for fans of that
- Published in ATARI
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ATARI 2600, Atari XE, Atari XL, COMBAT, GAMES, GAMING, Labels: ATARI, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming
Iceblox Plus – Charming little puzzle game ported to the Atari ST
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
It’s not often we get mobile games ported over to old retro computers but at the end of last month Karl Hornell released his cute homebrew puzzle game Iceblox Plus for the Atari ST, after previously being released for the C64, designed originally for mobiles such as the Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Sharp GX10. Now
- Published in ATARI
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atari, ATARI ST, c64, GAMES, GAMING, Iceblox Plus, Labels: Arcade, Puzzle, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming
Ultimate Play The Game “Sabre Wulf” is coming to the Atari XL/XE
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
The retro news just keeps on coming this week, as earlier today we found out ‘ Sabre Wulf ‘ will be coming to the Atari XL/XE as a new development port by Robert Stuart with music by Miker. Yes indeed this famous game released in 1984 by Ultimate Play the Game, and originally released on
- Published in ATARI
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Atari XL/XE, GAMING, Labels: ATARI, PORT, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, Sabre Wulf, Ultimate Play The Game
Bosconian – 1980’s multi-directional scrolling shooter gets a great Atari 8bit 64KB port!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
It’s the Atari’s time to shine as another game has been given the port treatment and it’s the Arcade game ‘ Bosconian ‘ developed by Namco all the way back in 1981. Currently available as a 64KB final version 1.2f for the Atari 8bit by shanti77. Bosconian is a multi-directional scrolling shooter arcade game with
- Published in ATARI
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Atari 8bit, Atari XE, Atari XL, Bosconian, GAMES, GAMING, Labels: ATARI, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming
Dru(i)darium – Action platformer for the Atari XL/XE gets a skeleton mod
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Title typo still hasn’t been changed! Zbigniew ‘Saberman’ Zielinski has once again contacted us with more retro gaming info, as he has told us a skeleton change mod has been released for KK’s action platformer ‘Druidarium’, which was released for the Atari XL/XE. This game which can also be called Drudarium as noted by the spelling
- Published in ATARI
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Atari XE, Atari XL, Drudarium, Druidarium, Labels: ATARI, Platformer, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming
SimCity – DarkwyndPT takes a look at multiple versions of Sim City in this BIG review!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
And again we’re going to take a look at not just a true classic game, but also a highly influential title that helped define an entire genre, spawned several clones and influenced several other titles. I’m talking about the one and only SimCity. SimCity is a simulation/managerial game developed by Maxis and published by Infogrames.
- Published in ATARI
Tagged under:
AMSTRAD CPC, atari, ATARI ST, BBC MICRO, c64, CDTV, DarkwyndPT, Labels: Amiga, Macintosh, MS-DOS, PC, PC Gaming, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, REVIEW, SIMCITY, SNES, Zx Spectrum
Mister Hoppe – Hopping ever higher in this score based Atari XL/XE game
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
The Atari XL/XE has also got a new game this month, and unlike the previous platformers we are so used to, this one is a score based run and jump game where the only end goal, is to keep getting an ever higher score. Yes if you like these sorts of games then ‘ Mister
- Published in ATARI
Tagged under:
Atari XE, Atari XL, GAMES, GAMING, Labels: ATARI, Mister Hoppe, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming