Dank Tomb - Pico8's biggest adventure yet!

Pico-8's biggest adventure game yet is an absolute cracker! Beautiful lighting effects... Check! interesting puzzle element? Check! Sprawling map... Check! This game is so good I'm not even sure if it is legally allowed to be on Pico-8 ;)

Picoh Mummy! - A Pico-8 Demake of classic CPC Oh Mummy!

One of the fondest remembered games to anyone rocking a CPC464 back in the day was Oh Mummy! A game that was bundled for many of the computers sold (in the UK at least) and left impressions on many original owners through to this day. One such person was one of Road software, and together they have created a De-Make of the original onto the Pico-8 virtual console.

X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter: Attack on the Death Star - Pico-8 demake of a PC classic

Back in the day, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter was one of the best games in the PC space sim genre... and a Star wars game at that! Excellent graphics, brilliant dogfight mechanics and great mission design. It improved upon the previous X-Wing game but by allowing a choice of flying for the Rebel Alliance or the Empire. In the latest in our roundup of Pico-8 demakes, forum member freds72 has de-made XWvTF into one of the best sims on the platform

Piconian - Pico-8 Bosconian De-Make

Pico-8 has it's share of clones and De-Makes of very well known games, but the diminutive platform is also bringing out people to make homages to more esoteric and lesser known games from early arcade history. P8 user Aquova has brought us a fine mini-make of the 1981 shooter Bosconian.

4 Decades of Amiga Demos - A massive update for The CD32 compilation

One year after Amiga Jay released his 'Last' CD32 disc containing a huge repository of amiga demos all verified to work on CD32, he's released the first update to expand it further, with additions catering for extra FastRAM CD32's and a section for 'Rave Acid' demos.

Project Hubbard - The ultimate Rob Hubbard project revs up at Kickstarter

For anyone into the 8-BIT scene, Rob Hubbard needs no introduction. The musician behind many of the most well known themes from C64 games and beyond, is, with the help of C64Audio.com (SIDologie) bringing you the ultimate Hubbard reference and collection of new work. Project Hubbard.

Sociable Soccer - Jon Hare's Sensible soccer reborn goes early access

If you hadn't heard, Jon Hare has been working on updating arguably his most successful game ever, Sensible Soccer, to modern platforms and visual styles. Sensible software is no longer with us, but the spirit lives on in Jon bringing his vision into Sociable Soccer. It's not fully baked yet, but very soon you'll be able to take a peek via Steam Early Access.

Lust for Darkness - kickstarter campaign for occult and fetish: final week!

And now for what is the most ahem... 'interesting' game I've had to cover for Indie Retro News. Lust for Darkness is an upcoming game from the Polish team Play Way. The themes however are definitely on the mature side, being a first person horror adventure with elementh style of occult, and fetish.

Zepton - A Third person 3D Zaxxon - On Pico-8!

I'm constantly being blown away by the awesomeness that's coming out of the Pico-8 community. every time I think I've seen all this little restricted platform has to offer, something comes along to blow it out of the water! This time, after what seems a lifetime of testing on twitter, BBS user Rez has created a Zaxxon-ish clone, but also made it third person! quite a feat for a system with no actual 3D rendering pipeline baked in.

They Started It - Pico-8's most 'juiced' vertical shooter

They Started It, is a frantic Pico-8 shooter from BBS member joeyspacerocks. Part space invaders part galaga, all action and sensory overload - this shooter delivers fast paced, wave based shoot em up fun in spades.

PocketCHIP Hardware Review - The perfect handheld retrogaming device?

Back in May last year, NextThingCo were making headlines with their kickstarter for a $9 computer called CHIP. Similar to a Raspberry Pi A+ but with added features and cheaper to boot. What was overlooked by most was one of the extra backer reward tiers of an add on peripheral called PocketCHIP. The campaign hinted at PocketCHIP's potential but it wasn't until the announcement that it would be launched with Pico-8 that its true vocation was made obvious. To be the ultimate accessible retrogaming handheld computer. Read on to find out if it is.

Amiga Resurrection Part 3-4 by Alistair B - Cleanup on aisle 9 for International Amiga Day

Last time I had spent a rather long time rummaging through boxes, looking for caches of disks and other miggy related gubbins, and to my surprise discovered pretty much everything I expected to find. Lots of disks, the Amiga itself, modulator, PSU, A590 hard drive and it's PSU. The gang's all here, but it's now time for the scary part. Switch-On! I don't really want to blow up my old friend so I'll be making sure all reasonable precautions are taken before subjecting her to the power.