Retro Gaming News
‘Turrican 128k’ is now available to download. A new fanmade 128k remaster of Turrican‘s Amstrad CPC port is now available, giving the 8-bit home computer version of the classic run ‘n gun adventure game a welcome upgrade for 2025 (thanks IndieRetroNews/SabermanRetroNews). Created by Rainbow Arts back in 1990, the original version of Turrican was initially…
Lost in Blue Mobile: Marina & Riku is an original game in the classic survival series. Lost in Blue Mobile: Marina & Riku Edition, a super rare mobile spin-off of the Nintendo DS game Lost in Blue has just been preserved by an individual named @frigamarrymepls, according to the feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo. Lost in…
A fan patch for the 1994 adventure game ‘Belzerion’ is now available. At the end of last week, a group of fan translators released a brand new English language patch for the 3DO graphic adventure/first-person shooter Belzerion, giving people the chance to experience another obscure title in the console’s library. Belzerion is a game from…
No more slowdown or sprite flicker! We’ve seen a bunch of classic NES titles get natively ported to the SNES, and now it’s the turn of Konami’s Life Force / Salamander, an offshoot of the Gradius series. Rumbleminze has leveraged FastROM/HiROM to create a 1:1 conversion of the game on Nintendo’s 16-bit console. The developer…
There’s another awesome news story that’s worth a mention here on Indie Retro News, as thanks to both Ethan Knight and Saberman letting us know through Facebook, we’ve been told that Jon Eggelton and Gianluca Alberico has released a pretty impressive update to their 2023 Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 unofficial hit of ‘SNK vs CAPCOM’;…
Say hello to SpaghettiKart. The N64 classic Mario Kart 64 has been successfully ported to PC under the title SpaghettiKart. This port is the work of Harbour Masters / Ship of Harkinian, and has only been possible thanks to the hard work of a large team of individuals. Read the full article on timeextension.com Say…
Starting today on June 20th, Stern Pinball has started accepting entries for a sweepstakes, with the winner eligible to win a DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: The Tyrant’s Eye Pro model pinball machine. The Tyrant’s Eye was released in January of this year to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game….
Yum! Back in 1989, the Oliver Twins released Fast Food, a Dizzy-themed take on Pac-Man’s maze-based action—and the game is now getting an unofficial sequel for the Amiga, thanks to developer AcidBottle and BitmapSoft. Built using the Scorpion Engine, Fast Food 2 will offer 25 levels, split into five different zones. It will offer three…
Arrives June 26th. An enhanced version of the Neo Geo vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up Fast Striker is set to be released on Nintendo Switch later this month. Fast Striker EX (as the new release is being called) will be published on June 26th, 2025 on the Nintendo Switch eShop, and will reportedly be the first…
“I don’t intend on having anyone tell me what to do on this one”. Adi Shankar, the producer behind Netflix’s Castlevania and Devil May Cry animated series, has revealed that he owns the animated rights to Duke Nukem and seems keen to do something pretty unique with the character. Speaking to Esquire, Shankar—who also has…