Hibernaculum – This sci-fi horror dungeon crawler looks bloody awesome!
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
I’ve always been a fan of the dungeon crawler, there’s something to be said about moving through a dark underground passage, looking for loot, avoiding traps and fighting the many beasts that lurk within. In actual fact I’m more inclined to play an old retro first person grid based crawler than any top down modern
- Published in PC
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GAMES, GOG, GORE, Hibernaculum, Horror, IOS, Kickstarter, Labels: Dungeon Crawler, LINUX, MAC, Nintendo Switch, PC, PC Gaming, RPG, STEAM, Steam Deck
A Blast From The Past – A modern Galaxian remake that looks pretty decent! (Sega Mega Drive WIP too)
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Galaxian has appeared on Indie Retro News many times over the years, especially as it is one particular Arcade classic that homebrew developers love making clones of with special effects and bonus power ups. Well here’s a news update that is sure to excite those who love playing this game back in the day, as
- Published in PC
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Galaxian, GAMES, GAMING, Labels: A Blast From The Past, MAC, PC, RETRO INSPIRED, Sega Mega Drive, STEAM
GOBLiiiNS 5 – The retro classic GOBLiiiNS are back with a brand new game!
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
If you remember playing the comical puzzlers of Gobliiins, Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon, Goblins 3 and then the 3D variant of Gobliiins 4, which had it’s first release as Gobliiins back in the 90’s. Then you are going to love this latest news story that has just been sent to us through our email!
- Published in PC
Tagged under:
GAMING, gobliiins, GOBLiiiNS 5, Labels: GAMES, PC, PC Gaming, Puzzle, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming
Aqua Ippan – This love letter to Metal Slug by Division 六 looks fantastic!
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
I can say for sure there’s probably not many of you that haven’t heard of ‘Metal Slug’, a game in a series of games that are well known in the gaming community, going back to the days of the Neo Geo system. This game has plenty of humor, while remaining action packed throughout. In fact
- Published in PC
Tagged under:
Division 6, GAMES, Labels: Aqua Ippan, PC, PC Gaming, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, WINDOWS
Tiny Thor – A stylish Jump’n’Run game featuring pixel art from Henk Nieborg and music by Chris Hülsbeck! [GOG/Steam]
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Our good friend Tom has contacted us regarding a lovely looking game called ‘Tiny Thor’, that is not only available for PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch and Steam OS/Linux, but features true 16-bit pixel art from Henk Nieborg, and the musical talents of the legend that is Chris Hülsbeck! This game which is a Jump’n’Run, goes beyond
- Published in PC
Tagged under:
GAMES, GAMING, GOG, Labels: Arcade, LINUX, MAC, Nintendo Switch, PC, PC Gaming, RETRO INSPIRED, Tiny Thor
The Telwynium – A Sierra inspired adventure trilogy that’s worth checking out (Win/Linux/Mac)
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Ladies and Gentlemen the late 80’s and early 90’s adventure graphical style is calling out to us once again. As a trilogy of games has just appeared in our news feeds that looks very much like the classic Kings Quest and Quest for Glory games right out of the DOS era. Welcome to ‘ The
- Published in PC
Tagged under:
GAMES, Labels: Adventure, LINUX, MAC, PC, PC Gaming, POWERHOOF, RETRO INSPIRED, SIERRA, The Telwynium
Blackthorne – DarkwyndPT takes a look at a very good classic action game!
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Well, like I promised last time, today’s review is from a GOOD action PC game and it’s also one of the first games produced by a famous game developer. I’m talking about Blackthorne. Blackthorne (AKA Blackhawk in Europe) is an action/platform game developed by Blizzard and published by Interplay. It was originally released in 1994
- Published in SNES Indie Game Releases
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DarkwyndPT, DOS, Game Boy Advanced, GAMES, GAMING, GOG, Labels: BLACKTHORNE, PC, PC Gaming, PC-98, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, Sega 32x, SNES
Wing Commander – An incredible space sim gets a BIG Cola Powered Gamer review
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
When talking about space sims, sooner or later someone will mention Wing Commander. Developed by Origin Systems, Wing Commander can be considered one of the best and influential space sim ever created. Wing Commander had a different take on the then established space sim formula, bringing the game and space combat to the levels of
- Published in SNES Indie Game Releases
Tagged under:
Amiga, Cola Powered Gamer, DOS, FM Towns, GAMES, GOG, Labels: 3do, Origin Systems, PC, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, REVIEW, SNES, SPACE SIM, WING COMMANDER
Zombies Ate My Neighbors – A great SNES classic turned into an early DOOM II mod!
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
There’s a game I used to love that involved blasting away monsters in a top down view, while saving as many residents as I could such as babies, old ladies and even the odd cheer leader. It just had to be the highly enjoyable and humorous game ‘ Zombies Ate My Neighbors ‘; a game
- Published in SNES Indie Game Releases
Tagged under:
GAMING, Labels: DOOM, PC, PC Gaming, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, SNES, Zombies Ate my Neighbours
Future Knight DX – A great fan remake of the 1986 game “Future Knight” by Gremlin Graphics Software!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Well this took me completely by surprise, as thanks to a heads up from our good friend Liqmatrix. We have been told that Johndimi has released a brand new remake of Future Knight; A game which was originally released back in the 1980’s for the Amstrad, C64 and ZX Spectrum. In truth this is not
- Published in AMSTRAD