The Making of Monkey Island (30th Anniversary Documentary)

I'm sure many of you especially Amiga owners, will remember the brilliant 1990 Adventure game ' The Secret of Monkey Island, by Lucasfilm Games. But did you know Onaretrotip has done his own special video in celebration 30th Anniversary of the game? You didn't? Well guess what, here it is! The Making of Monkey Island (30th Anniversary Documentary) : A documentary celebrating 30 years of this incredible game, created over the past two or three months and featuring such talents as RON GILBERT, DAVE GROSSMAN and MARK FERRARI!

Spectrum Addict 2.5: The Lost Tapes - Documentary film about the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Computer is a Kickstarter Success!

Andy Remic certainly knows how to please the retro community, especially through the organising, creating and releasing two incredible ZX Spectrum packed feature documentaries. Both the Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict and Spectrum Addict Load "Film 2" were crowd funded successes. Well now it looks as if he has another Kickstarter success under his belt, as this month we were told the next feature length documentary film the 'Spectrum Addict 2.5: The Lost Tapes', has reached a high goal with 428 backers pledging £9,275!

C64 GOTY - We take a look at the very best of this year's Commodore 64 productions

2017 is coming to an end, so we thought we’d roundup all the major Commodore 64 releases, and announce a few of our favourite releases from the year. 2016 had some great releases, like Tiger Claw (Lazy Cow & RGCD), Quod Init Exit IIm (Retream), Donkey Kong (Oxyron) and Frogger Arcade (Digital Monastery). But I think we can regard 2017 year as one of the very best for quality C64 releases. And we’ll also take a quick look at what we can expect to see coming in 2018 and also announce Indie Retro News’ C64 Game of the Year (GOTY).  We'll also pick our favourite C64 VLOG, C64 Book, C64 documentary and our favourite "Scene Release".

From Bedrooms To Billions: The Amiga Years - Thursday 19th May Launch Trailer!

Coming soon to a screen near you

Unless you've been marooned on treasure island with Ben Gunn, you will no doubt of heard of the successful Kickstarter project documentary 'Bedrooms To Billions' and its much anticipated sequel 'The Amiga Years'. Well as the sequel finally comes to fruition, a brand new trailer has been released to whet your appetite.

Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict - ZX Spectrum film Kickstarter success!

I'm sure many of you have noticed the influx of ZX Spectrum books, games and modifications, but a new ZX Spectrum film has just smashed through it's Kickstarter goal and there's still 29 days to go. It's the 'Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict - A tribute to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum ' film by Andy Remic. Classed as a full length documentary and raising over £1,624 so far, this Kickstarter of retro memories will be 120-180 minutes in length, which takes a detailed look at the ZX Spectrum, it's history, it's developers, it's games and it's fans!

Allister Brimble Amiga Works Documentary teaser trailer launched

Amiga game music aficionados will have no trouble recognizing the name Allister Brimble - creator of seminal soundtracks for well known games such as Project-X, Body Blows, Alien Breed and Superfrog, should need no introduction. After a successful kickstarter campaign to re-work some of his best musical work into a modern studio format with the "Amiga Works" project comes the documentary about the man himself and the behind the scenes look at the production of Amiga Works.

Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years - A retro documentary Kickstarter success

Another positive note for retro gamers, especially those of you who remember the Amiga. As Nicola Caulfield & Anthony Caulfield's latest Kickstarter of 'Bedrooms to Billions : The Amiga Years is a kickstarter success raising £50,142 pledged of a £50,000 goal. The Amiga years will feature over 90 minutes worth of documentary footage that will explore the influence of the Commodore Amiga and how it took video game development, music and publishing to a whole new level and changed the video games industry forever!

Playstation: Game Changer - PS1 documentary kickstarter

It may not have escaped your notice that the original playstation turned 20 this month. That's right, in 1994 the PSX or simply Playstation as it was finally launched as, finally went on sale in Japan. Anyone who was a gamer at the time could barely move for news about Sony's imminent arrival in the gaming press and Edge magazine probably sold more copies of their first few issues solely on news of the upcoming console. Johnathan Beales is looking to raise funds to create the ultimate documentary of the birth of the biggest gaming brand of the last 20 years...

Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict - Feature film growing up with the ZX Spectrum

I'm not usually one for featuring books or films, but when it comes to anything gaming retro, especially of the 8-bit era I'll most likely give it the thumbs up. Well just recently I was contacted by Andy Remic who is a Novelist and ZX Spetrum fanatic with 16 published books, about his new feature film (110+mins) that's currently running an Indiegogo campaign which is based on Andy Remic’s memoirs growing up with the ZX.

From Bedrooms to Billions - The story of the UK Video Games Industry but with a kickstarter

This is a rather cool project for a Kickstarter and one that I've not seen before. Unlike most Kickstarters we've featured here have been games, this is oh so slightly different. This Kickstarter, which has already gone way past it's goal, is going to be a two hour feature length documentary featuring some of the best game developers of our time, going way back to 1979! It's also a true story of the British Video Games Industry and how a small number of great individuals shaped this industry.