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In 1984 Datasoft released a brilliant arcade platformer called 'Bruce Lee' which was based on the famous motion picture martial artist. It was and still is a highly regarded platformer that is still loved to this day and can be played by anyone. But boy do we have some great news for you, as a Bruce Lee fan game by the name of Bruce Lee - Return of Fury, originally released for the PC, then by

In 1984 a great shoot em up was released for the Arcade by Capcom and that game was 1942. A game in which you shoot down enemy planes, avoided being shot out of the sky and performed awesome rolls while collecting power ups. One of the more unusual power ups was being escorted by two other planes in formation that gave you the edge. It was an awesome game and still is today, but the news of right

Unless you were living in a cave, many of you will remember the classic game that is ' Super Mario Bros ', a game that was produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and released by that famous company Nintendo in the late 80's for the NES. It is an incredible platformer that has had many sequels and spin offs on different systems, ranging from the NES all the way up to my personal favorite the DS. Well if you

Here we are with another retro gaming news story, as we've just been told by our good friend Per Ola Eriksson, that Pixelglass in cooperation with BitBeamCannon and Enable Software, have shown off some brand new work in progress footage of the eagerly awaited 'Metro Siege' and 'DaemonClaw'; Two incredible games that are in development, with one being a high quality brawler in co-op with

For a little while now we've been featuring Electric Black Sheep's upcoming Amiga game of 'Project Quest'; a game inspired by basic shooting elements such as Commando, with a mix of Chaos Engine set in a fantasy theme. Well if you're still waiting for that game to be finished and want something to play during the mean time, you can check out Electric Black Sheep's latest game of 'None of Us'; An

Psytronik Software who are a software label and publisher are certainly no strangers to us or the retro gaming scene. They have been devoted to releasing games for many different classic systems such as the Amstrad, C64, C16 and VIC-20. Games such as Knight 'n' Grail, Darkness and Sub Hunter to name but some of the great games they have been involved in. Well here are with another fabulous

This week we've been swamped with news, and as I'm now overwhelmed and need a writers break, I thought it would be best to give a final shout out for this addictive yet simplistic little game called 'Balloon Buster' by Hakogame. What makes this game different from all the other ones we've featured this week, as in this game not only do you need to bounce around the game screen to reach the exit,

I may not have an MSX but there are certain games that have appeared over the years in the homebrew scene, that have really opened my eyes to just how good the system is for a multitude of different genres. One such game that caught my eye that looks well worth a play is Mi-Chi and Def Danny's latest MSX1 game of 'DICED - Tournament'. A high quality MSX 1 game where players meet at the annual

Another retro gaming news story to keep you company, as thanks to Saberman contacting us this morning, we've been told that a brand new game for the MSX1 called 'My Sacred Place' is available to play. This game developed by Mario Cavalcanti for the MSXDev 22 competition, is an action strategy RPG in which you have to protect your village’s garden from the clutches of the fearsome Garks. To

First Person Dungeon Crawlers have a huge fan base on Indie Retro News, so many of us love games such as Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, Ishar and even ones just released on the Amiga such as the great Shadows of Sergoth or Black Dawn Rebirth. Well here we are with another special announcement especially if you love dungeon crawlers, as Sabbas Eleftheriadis has shown off some brand new

Another interesting news story has just hit our inbox and one I think MSX gamers across the globe will loading up, as trawling through the MSXDev'22 competition, we've come across a brand new game entry called 'Sacred Valley'; A game which the competition describes as "a classic type of action platformer, but with several twists and unique features". To coincide with this news you can either

We always try to get the best in retro gaming updates on Indie Retro News for our readers, as we've just found out while looking through the Commodore 64/128 Facebook group and through Saberman, that Søren Trautner Madsen is not only still working on his upcoming Commodore 64 Super Smash Bros tribute game of 'Awesome Slam Siblings', but as of today there's some new footage of the game for you to

Remember when we told you that 'Robocop' was coming to the Amiga as a complete AGA rework, developed in 68k ASM for those of you who felt the original 1989 Ocean/Data East game was rather lacking. Well just recently thanks to another heads up via Per Ola Eriksson, Daniel Allsopp who is behind this AGA rework, has posted a brand new work in progress video showing how far the game has come since

If you remember the 1980's game of 'Karate Champ; An Arcade fighting game that was released in the Arcades and later the Apple II, C64, NES, Virtual Console, iOS via Data East, then you might like this latest Amiga news story we've come across on EAB. As Jotd has teased a brand new video for the work in progress Arcade like version 'Karate Champ VS Amiga' for yes you guessed it the Commodore

If you have an Amiga you are sure to like this latest news story we've come across on Twitter, as if you were hoping to play the C64 version of 'Rogue64' by Badger Punch Games but didn't get the chance, then make sure to keep an eye out for the upcoming release of 'RogueCraft'; The creators popular C64 game Rogue64, with a Lovecraft-inspired theme, and loads more features that is coming to the

If you're looking for something different to play through this weekend and possibly the week ahead too, then you'll pleased to know as thanks to a heads up by Plus/4 World, we've been told that C64Mark has released a redux version of the classic game Hercules for the Commodore 16/Plus4. As in the words of Luca : "C64Mark is the very first streamer with a Commodore 16 dedicated channel on his own

If you have played TIGERSKUNK's awesome side scrolling shoot 'em up of Inviyya, an incredible game that not only won IRN Game of the Year 2021, but many of those who played it thought it was one of the best games on the Amiga, then this latest news story is for you! As we've recently found out through Facebook, that Tigerskunk has shown off some brand new footage of the eagerly awaited sequel of

Although I don't usually do writing this early in the morning, especially on a Saturday, as we've recently been trawling the itch io website, and have found out that the atmospheric game of Tenebra by Haplo, which was released in 2021. Is going to get a sequel called 'Tenebra 2' for the C64 and Plus/4! To coincide with this news, not only is there a viewable gif below, but if you want to try the

It was just recently that we gave you the heads up that the 1987 Arcade game of 'Flying Shark' was being remade for the Amiga by none other than Magnus T together with JMD. Well if you were hoping for more news on this Arcade like version of the game, which was originally developed by Toaplan and released on the Amiga as well as many other systems. Then as of today the creator has just released a

ZOSYA entertainment have made a lot of great games for the speccy, games such as Drift!, Valley of Rains, Travel Through Time Volume 1 and even the latest Angels which have all been featured as highly recommended on Indie Retro News. Well here we are with even more news from ZOSYA entertainment, as they've just released a fabulous game called Don Quixote; A brand new adventure platformer for all