No Quarter - Welcome to a new Atari 2600 game from ArugulaZ

Here's a new platformer called No Quarter by ArugulaZ for the Atari 2600. The game brings back the character Byron—now affectionately dubbed Kid Kodiak—who has traded his classic craving for fruit in pursuit of cold, hard arcade cash. Players must navigate four fully playable levels of intense, hole-hopping action, dodging a deadly downpour of acid rain that rapidly intensifies as they scramble to collect $1.50 in coins to advance. Falling through gaps in the floor or succumbing to the toxic deluge spells a fate worse than death: an eternity trapped at the Earth's core listening to Rick Wakeman concept albums.

Fait Of A Bait - An impressive homebrew for the Atari 2600 by Hammersdev

A bizarre new homebrew title for the Atari 2600 is turning heads in the retro community, proving that developers can still squeeze incredible performance out of 1970s hardware. Titled as 'Fait Of A Bait' by Hamersdev, the game is a technical masterpiece for the Atari 2600. Built as a standard 32kByte binary using classic F4 bankswitching, the developer proudly notes that no modern ARM co-processors were used to boost performance. Everything runs purely on the console's original architecture. While the further details are provided below, feedback from the community is very positive! "Dang! I am so impressed with what you've done on the Atari 2600" and "It's hard to really understand how impressive this is unless you KNOW the Atari 2600."

CrackPots - A ColecoVision homebrew adaptation of Activision Atari 2600 classic!

Electric Dreams has officially released a ColecoVision homebrew port of CrackPots, a classic 1983 Activision game originally designed by Dan Kitchen for the Atari 2600. This new adaptation brings the crazy, grid-based defense gameplay to ColecoVision owners, revitalizing the decades-old title with updated system capabilities. Furthermore this game retains the high-stakes tension of the 1983 original too. Allowing too many bugs to sneak past Potsy’s defenses triggers a catastrophic penalty: the building structurally degrades, collapsing floor by floor. If players cannot control the swarms, the entire structure eventually crumbles to the ground, resulting in a game over.

Tony Montezuma’s Gold - A fantastic homebrew has a surprising release on the Atari 2600!

Retro gaming fans have a new reason to dust off their joysticks and load up the 70's woody as Monochrome Productions officially launches Tony Montezuma’s Gold for the Atari 2600. This latest game draws its inspiration from the legendary life of Tony Halik, the real-world Polish explorer and prolific filmmaker. Known for his tireless work documenting ancient civilisations for NBC, Halik’s globe-trotting career spanned decades and served as the blueprint for this retro homage.

Cosmic Ark - A VIC-20 conversion of the Atari classic Cosmic Ark by Micke

Another vintage Atari game has made an appearance on the Commodore VIC-20, as looking through our emails earlier today, I've been told by Liqmatrix that Micke has released Cosmic Ark, a high-fidelity conversion from the Atari 2600 over to the Commodore VIC-20. A new release which faithfully recreates the frantic species-saving gameplay of the 1980's Imagic original. To experience this technical feat on original hardware, users will need a VIC-20 equipped with an 8k memory expansion. The increased RAM is essential to handle the conversion's graphics and smooth performance.

1942 for the Atari 2600, developed using Batari Basic looks incredible!

In 1984 a great shoot 'em up was released for the Arcade by Capcom and that game was 1942. A game in which you had to shoot down enemy planes, avoid being shot out of the sky and performed awesome rolls while collecting power ups. Well if you remember this fine game ( I know I do! ), you may be interested to know that Al Nafuur has not only released a work in progress demake of the game for the Atari 2600 developed in Batari Basic, but it looks mighty impressive indeed!

Freeway - An Atari 2600 to Atari XL/XE port by Glurk gets a release

We've featured many Atari 2600 to C64 and Atari XL/XE conversions and ports throughout the years, from Spider Fighter, to Keystone Kapers and even our personal favorite Frostbite. Well here's some more good news to get us through this Tuesday which has been developed by Glurk, is the Atari 2600 to Atari XL/XE conversion/port of Freeway; a video game written by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1981, in which you need to get your chicken(s) across the road as many times as possible for a high score.

Seaquest - A 1983 Atari 2600 game arrives on the C64 by H4plo, Marukpa and Richard Bayliss!

We've featured many Atari 2600 to C64 conversions and ports throughout the years, from Spider Fighter, to Keystone Kapers and even our personal favorite Frostbite. Well here's some good news to get us through this Friday which has been developed by H4plo, Marukpa and Richard Bayliss, is the Atari 2600 to C64 conversion/port of Seaquest; a video game written by Steve Cartwright for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1983, in which playing as a submarine you need to shoot at enemies and rescue divers.

Fast Food - An endless food eating Atari 2600 to C64 conversion/port by Arlasoft

Yet again Arlasoft is in the retro gaming news, as checking our emails we've just been given the heads up direct from the website, that Arlasoft has released the Atari 2600 to C64 conversion/port of Ruffcorn and Telesys 1982 game of Fast Food. Yes indeed another game is upon us for the C64, and unlike the previous ones mentioned, this one is an endless food eating game whereby you need to eat as much food as possible, while avoiding the spicy pickles!

Freeway - An Atari 2600 to C64 port by Arlasoft gets a release

We've featured many Atari 2600 to C64 conversions and ports through the years, from Spider Fighter, to Keystone Kapers and even our personal favorite Frostbite. Well here's some good news to get us through this Monday which has been developed by Arlasoft, is the Atari 2600 to C64 conversion/port of Freeway; a video game written by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1981, in which you need to get your chicken(s) across the road as many times as possible for a high score.

TURBO ARCADE - An awesome racing game is coming 2022 to your Atari 2600, demo now available

If however you don't have a ZX Spectrum but instead an Atari 2600 then you might like this piece of news, as trawling through Facebook, we've just come across this awesome looking racing game for the Atari 2600 called Turbo Arcade. Although the game isn't due to be released until 2022, Champ Games have at least released a demo for you to try which gives you an early look at this upcoming racing game which when complete, will feature 99 rounds and hundreds of scenes to race through.

Spider Fighter - A new C64 game as a remake of the 1982 Atari 2600 shooter

Waking up just moments ago, we've just been told via Facebook, that if you want to play the latest in Atari 2600 remakes on your C64, then you might want to play the C64 action shooter game called 'Spider Fighter'; A remake of the Atari 2600 game which was originally designed by Larry Miller for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1982. The same designer behind the Atari 2600 racing game Enduro, which was later released in 1983.

Deepstone Catacomb - A new homebrew dungeon crawler for the Atari 2600!

We haven't featured many Atari 2600 products this year, even though we have featured a number of Atari 2600 to C64 ports, so to change all that here's a new game from Mick Muze that's purchasable through AtariAge, it's Deepstone Catacomb; a brand new Atari 2600 release whereby you must save Princess Robyn from the clutches of the evil Dark Lord Kram and his army of Undead Soldiers deep within the very dark underworld of the Catacombs.

GOLD RUSH - Sequel to KEYSTONE KAPERS is coming to the Atari 2600 and C64

Atari2600 artwork by Atariboy2600

Great news Atari 2600 and C64 owners as thanks to Per Ola letting us know, we have found out that the in development game of ' Gold Rush ' is coming to the Atari 2600 and C64. What makes this news rather special isn't just the fact that this is the sequel to the great Atari 2600 game Keystone Kapers, but the Atari 2600 version is being developed by Dan Kitchen, and the C64 version is being developed by Antonio Savona and team; the same team who were also behind the C64 versions of Fix It Felix Jr and Chopper Command.

Legacy of the Beast - An Atari 2600 Shadow of the Beast inspiration released!

As we said before, here at Indie Retro News we try to give you the latest in unusual releases that don't often get a website mention, especially lately as there's been many of them, from open sourced games to updated C64 titles. Yet here we are with another update special, as we've just been informed by the coder named as pvmpkin, that he has now released his Shadow of the Beast inspiration for the Atari 2600 called 'Legacy of the Beast'.

SHADOW OF THE ATARI - An early attempt to demake Shadow of the Beast to the Atari 2600

Here at Indie Retro News we try to give you the latest in unusual releases that don't often get a website mention, especially lately as there's been many of them, from homebrew games to updated Amiga titles. Yet here we are with another news special, as we've just been informed by the coder named as pvmpkin, that he has released an early Atari 2600 demo demake of an all time classic game Shadow of the Beast, which has been demade called SHADOW OF THE ATARI!

Megamania - Atari 2600 game gets a full C64 conversion by Arla Games

We've certainly had our fair share of conversions and ports over to the C64 this year, especially with games being mentioned such Atic Atac, Fire, Crackpots, King's Valley+ and even Donkey Kong Jr Game and Watch to name but many we've had the pleasure of playing. Well now another game has appeared in our inbox, albiet a bit late by us (woops sorry!), as both Saberman and Milo has told us Arla Games have converted/ported Megamania from the Atari 2600 over to the C64.

Frostbite - Atari to C64 conversion #3 from Chopper Command team gets a release!

Great news for this rather cold and frosty Sunday, as we've just been told by Antonio Savona, that the same team behind the Atari to C64 conversion of Chopper Command and the previously released Keystone Kapers. Has now announced the release of the next game in the trilogy line up, as the classic game 'Frostbite'; A game originally released by Steve Cartwright for the Atari 2600, and published by Activision way back in 1983!

Dragonfire ZX - Another Atari 2600 to ZX Spectrum port by Luca Bordoni

Another ZX Spectrum port to grace our speccy screens and again from Luca Bordoni using AGDX, is the Atari 2600 game Dragonfire, which was first released in 1982 as another game by Imagic. Yes indeed get ready to play another port, but unlike the other game we mentioned previously, this one puts you in control of a guy who must steal the treasure from a fire breathing dragon while also avoiding deadly fireballs!

Combat - Atari 2600 two player tank battler has arrived on the Atari 8bit

Great news indeed especially if you grew up on the Atari 2600 as well as the much later Atari 8bit as you'll be overjoyed to hear Avery "Phaeron" Lee has released the Atari 2600 classic ' Combat ' over to the Atari 8bit. This well known game and a collectors item for fans of that era, will be pleased to know this is a conversion of Atari Inc's 1977 game and is completely free to download and play with up two players!