Planetoid – A side-scrolling shooter based on the classic arcade game Defender!
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
In 1981 Williams Electronics released Defender, an all time classic multi-directional arcade shooter featuring 2D graphics as you defeat waves of aliens while protecting astronauts on the surface. But what if I told you there’s a new game by Ben James that is very much inspired by that classic but looks oh so good as
- Published in PC
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BROWSER BASED, Defender, Labels: Arcade, PC, PC Gaming, Planetoid, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, shooter
Haunted Lands – Burial Grounds – An awesome action platformer homage to classic DOS games
Monday, 14 August 2023
by HAS Admin
It’s the middle of the week and it’s time for some fresh news to be announced! The first one up that comes highly recommended and has had a recent update, is Alevgor’s action platformer ‘Haunted Lands – Burial Grounds’. A game that isn’t just a PC homage to classic DOS games such as Commander Keen, Dangerous
- Published in PC
Tagged under:
Dangerous Dave, DOS, FREE GAME, Haunted Lands, Haunted Lands Burial Grounds, Labels: Action, MS-DOS, PC, PC Gaming, shooter
Terra Lander – Retrotastic homage to Luna Lander now on Steam!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Turn back the clock to 1979 when Atari released Lunar Lander with lovely vector graphics on Arcade machines across the Globe. Your mission, to pilot a lunar lander module for a safe touchdown on the moon. Fast forward to today and we have Terra Lander to play through Steam! A homage to Luna Lander in
- Published in ATARI
Tagged under:
atari, Labels: Arcade, Lunar Lander, RETRO INSPIRED, shooter, STEAM, Terra Lander, THRUST, vector
Total Eclipse – 1980’s Adventure previewed for the Atari 8bit
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Our good friend Alex has just informed us of the work in progress preview of the C64 – Atari 8bit port: Total Eclipse. Originally released in 1988, Total Eclipse is a first person adventure game with the ability to shoot released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, PC and ZX Spectrum, however
- Published in ATARI
Tagged under:
atari, Atari 8bit, beta, c64, DOWNLOAD, FIRST PERSON, Labels: Adventure, MariusZW, REMAKE, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, shooter, Total Eclipse
Moon Patrol – 1982 Arcade classic gets an Atari Jaguar port!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
In 1982-1987, Irem with licensing by Williams released the fantastically enjoyable game of’ ‘ Moon Patrol ‘ for the Arcade gaming community. A side-scrolling shooter that is widely credited for the introduction of parallax scrolling in side-scrolling video games, as you drove a buggy across a landscape, jumping over ditches and rocks while also shooting
- Published in ATARI
Tagged under:
atari, ATARI JAGUAR, CryanoJ, GAMING, Irem, Labels: Arcade, Moon Patrol, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, shooter, Williams
Star Raiders II – Unreleased almost-finished sequel sees light of day on the Atari 8bit!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Year after year we usually go on about the latest C64 games and unreleased titles seeing the light of day for the very first time, well now it’s the Atari 8-bits turn with ‘ Star Raiders II ‘ released for the first time today as a free holiday present from Aric Wilmunder. This is the
- Published in ATARI
Tagged under:
Action, Aric Wilmunder, atari, Atari 8bit, DOWNLOAD, Labels: 8-BIT, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, SCI-FI, shooter, Space, Star Raiders, Star Raiders II
Blowsub – Destroy lots of subs in this Atari 5200 conversion
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
Originally for the Atari 8bit as a homebrew for this year’s A8 New Year Disk, ‘ Blow Sub ‘ has been converted to the Atari 5200 by the same developers Playsoft and Harvey. Classed as an arcade game to reach an ever high score, you must manoeuvre your boat across the high seas, dropping depth
- Published in ATARI
Tagged under:
atari, Atari 5200, Atari 8bit, Blowsub, DOWNLOAD, Harvey, HOMEBREW, Labels: Arcade, Playsoft, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, shooter
8-way scrolling system teased for Atari STE game development
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
We don’t usually feature Atari STE games simply for the fact that I am mainly an Amiga gamer at heart, but sufficed to say I was rather impressed by the news that has just appeared in our feed thanks to our friends AtariCrypt. A coder/developer by the name of Douglas Little (aka dml) is developing a
- Published in ATARI
Tagged under:
atari, ATARI ST, Atari STe, AtariCrypt, Douglas Little, Game Engine, HOMEBREW, Labels: Action, Shoot em up, shooter
Bosconian – 1980’s multi-directional scrolling shooter gets an Atari 8bit 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 work in progress for the Atari 8bit by shanti77. Bosconian is a multi-directional scrolling shooter arcade game with similarities to
- Published in ATARI
Tagged under:
atari, Atari 8bit, Bosconian, Labels: Arcade, Namco, PORT, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, shanti77, shooter
Raiden – Atari STe owners get ready for a wicked shooter update!
Sunday, 13 August 2023
by HAS Admin
In 1990 and onwards the epic scrolling shooter game ‘Raiden’ by Seibu Kaihatsu, made its appearance on many different systems such as the Atari Falcon, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx, DOS(PC), PC Engine and even the PlayStation. In fact there was even a prototype of the game released as a demo on the Commodore Amiga, which
- Published in ATARI
Tagged under:
atari, Atari STe, HOMEBREW, Labels: Arcade, Raiden, Retro Gaming, Retrogaming, Seibu Kaihatsu, Shoot em up, shooter
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