Retro Gaming News
Fight reptilian aliens in Stone Protectors and search for the legendary planet in Solaris. Two new titles once again join the Antstream library this week. Retro gamers can enjoy some beat ‘em up action with a quirky cast of rock musicians in Stone Protectors (Megadrive), or head to the stars for spaceship combat and exploration…
Happy Independence Day holiday to everyone in the USA, and we hope everyone else is enjoying a great summer! A lot has happened since our last update on Valentine’s day. The biggest news came in a press release at the end of May about our sale of the Intellivision brand to Atari®️. This deal added the fuel…
CLICK HERE FOR KICKSTARTER Growing up I was team Sega and was in love with the Sega Genesis. I still play the classics like Altered Beast and Golden Axe. Coming soon there will be a new Sega Genesis game on the market for 2024. It is called ZPF. I was fortunate enough to get a…
Not content with all the awesome news we’ve had so far this week, then how about this news story that’s just been sent to us by our good friend Liqmatrix. It’s the work in progress game of ‘Dreadnought Assault’ by kiwilove and playsoft. A rather awesome looking WIP scrolling shoot ’em up for the Atari 7800, which…
Hello and welcome! My name is Katosepe and I’ll be your host for today’s Video Game of the Day! If I had more forethought, I would have recorded today’s episode yesterday so you could all hear it on July 4th but oh well. At least I’m recording this on the 4th so happy Independence Day…
It wasn’t long ago now that we had the pleasure of playing the awesome game ‘Aliens NeoPlasma ‘ on the Spectrum which was developed by Sanchez crew (Russian Federation); a horror platformer as their own take on the Aliens movie theme complete with friendly face-huggers. Well fast forward to this month however and as a…
Now another homebrew has appeared which will appeal to gamers who like adventure puzzlers , as we’ve been told by Tom in our email, that GWI has made available through Itch-io, the adventure game of Geo’s Quest Gateway to Nowhere for the Commodore Amiga. A game in which you play as George Angus, as he…
50 Years of Boss Fights celebrates the history of video game bosses, starting from the first boss in 1974. The book features interviews and insights from the developers who helped to make the bosses as memorable as they are, including those who created the first ever boss, Golden Dragon in D&D, as well as those…
Released in 1990 on PC and 1991 on the Sega Genesis, King’s Bounty is a strategy/RPG that even the most hardcore of gamers may have missed when it was originally hit shelves. However its place among the greatest strategy/role-playing games of all time should never be questioned. The spiritual predecessor to New World Computing’s massively-popular…
Brick breaking and side-scrolling martial arts action are on the cards for retro game fans this week. This week, Antstream players can enjoy Breakout (Atari 2600), the game that launched a million bricks at walls, and fight for love in the side-scrolling beat ‘em up Kung-Fu Master (Arcade). Also, players can give the “Life, Duty…