Lure of the Temptress - A very good Adventure game as an Amiga-PC launchable file!

Here's a game many of you have heard of and probably seen being sold in a mighty haul, is the 1992 Adventure game ' Lure of the Temptress ' by Revolution Software. Which has since been re-released as an easily launchable PC file from the Amiga version thanks to The Company.PL. Originally released in June and available for the Atari ST, DOS and of course the Amiga, this game was the companies first game using the Virtual Theatre engine, which was also used in other games such as the incredible Beneath a Steel Sky!

MS-DOS Games in 1991 - A retro trip back in time by DOS Nostalgia

When I was growing up I used to love playing games such as Dizzy on my Amstrad and then much later the Amiga spending entire summer holidays on games such as Dragons Breath, Deuteros and Monkey Island on my Amiga 500. What a golden era of gaming, that for its time couldn't be beat, at least not until MS-DOS came about anyway especially with all those incredible titles that were to follow. I mean seriously, getting a 386 or a 486 from your dad with a turbo button and playing Strike Commander or Lands of Lore with fully digitised speech was a joy to behold! Thus in celebration of some of those MS-DOS games, DOS nostalgia has done an hour length video featuring MS-DOS games from 1991.

Hired Guns - An Amiga Sci-fi experience like no other on the PC

As its my Birthday today, I thought it best to celebrate by mentioning one of the best games on the Amiga, 'Hired Guns', which has been packaged together with FS-UAE for playability on the PC by GamesNostalgia. First released in 1993 for both Amiga and DOS, this game was the highlight of my gaming youth developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis. It put you in charge of 4 mercenaries lured into a trap! A weapons proving ground whereby you must defend yourself against genetically engineered creatures.

Catacomb 3D series and Keen Dreams - DOS based games coming over to the Amiga

From 1991 and onwards ID Software with publishing rights by Softdisk Publishing released the first person shooter game Catacomb 3-D : The Descent as a prototype of the Wolfenstein 3D engine. It was released as an EGA title for PC DOS as a dark fantasy style game, with the player controlling a Wizard named as ' Petton Everhail ' on a quest to defeat the evil lich Nemesis through a number of catacomb's. Although it was regarded as a landmark title for its time for first person graphics, it is now being ported over to the Amiga with a number of other games also in the pipeline such as the lost episode of classic platformer Commander Keen ' Keen Dreams '.

Bundleopolis - GOG smashes those deals with a new bundle up to 80% off!

I may have taken a nice long weekly break from all that gaming, but there's one site that never goes on holiday and that's GOG. Well today we've been informed by our good friends GOG of a bunch of new deals to really make this week even better than it currently is. This is the latest promo ' Bundleopolish ', which lasts from today up until May 1st, and starts with 3 bundles, "The Bit Trip Street Bundle ", "The Academy of Lucasarts Bundle " and "The NIGHTMARE AVENUE" bundle.

2K arrives on GOG and brings incredible deals such as Sid Meier's Pirates!

Yarrr get ready to sail the high seas and plunder those ships for loot, as 2K has finally arrived on GOG and brings some incredible gaming deals such as Sid Meier's Pirates! upto 75% off. But that's not all that's included in this 2K of goodness, as other games have also made an appearance such as Railroad Tycoon 2, Railroad Tycoon 3, Sid Meier's Railroads, X-COM: UFO Defense, Terror from the Deep, Apocalypse, Interceptor, Enforcer, Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich. That's 11 incredible games bundled up at 66-75% off (or 50% off individually) which are all available to buy through GOG

Matt Chat interviews Volker Wertich, Father of The Settlers

When I was a teen one game I remember so fondly was the early 90's game ' The Settlers ' on the Amiga. It had oodles of charm and character and became one of my most addictive game series ever released on both the Amiga and then later the PC. You could build your very own little village, from woodcutters to farms and bakeries while watching your little people go about their daily chores with birds chirping in the background. It was just a shame that Ubisoft decided to wreck the later games and become a shadow of its former self. Thankfully Matt Chat was on hand this month to help relive those glorious days as he has interviewed ' Volker Wertich ' about the Commodore VIC-20 and C-64, the Amiga, Emerald Mine, and yes, The Settlers.

GOG's Weekend Promo - A Square Meal 60%+ off games such as Deus Ex!

We haven't featured a good GOG promo for awhile, and today we've came across a rather nice one with GOG's Weekend Promo - A Square Meal, which has 60% off individual Square Enix games and 80% off for completing your collection. That's right retro gamers this is a big old haul of retro goodness from Square Enix, with games such as Deus Ex™: GOTY Edition, Tomb Raider 1+2+3, Thief™ 2: The Metal Age, Startopia, Hitman 3: Contracts, Anachronox, Revenant and many more that will keep you occupied for hours. From action to adventure in Tomb Raider, to the space strategy of Startopia, these are some of the finest games ever to be released!

DOOM Retro v2.0.4 - The latest Doom source release packed with updates!

We've just been informed through our twitter feed that ' Doom Retro ' , which is a minimalistic designed DOOM source port by Brad Harding, has now reached version 2.0.4. Unlike that very gory Brutal Doom, with it's destroyable bodies and disgusting physics, Doom Retro tries to stay as close as possible to the original game but improving it with a number of features and updates. See change log for details.

Indie Retro News & RGDS Podcast Amiga DOS Special!

I'm sure many of you will agree with me, but Aaron White is becoming a bit of a legend in the Amiga scene. He has done countless albums now going right back to 2014. From C64 remixes and 80's tracks, to Amiga PDs and even a more recent Sega Master System Hits Vol 1. But for me although these are mighty fine releases, I always like to challenge people to push their skills to the limit. So I said to him, " Can you convert PC MS-DOS tracks to the Amiga and if so, can you convert these? " Sure enough after some teasing over the weekend, here we have ' The Indie Retro News and RGDS Podcast Amiga DOS Special ' from Aaron White of RGDS Podcast. A small part 1 album, with remixed game soundtracks such as One Must Fall, Aladdin, Doom, Empire Civil War and The Lion King.

Over 1 hour of retro footage takes us back to a great time of DOS gaming!

Technobuffalo has come across possibly the greatest DOS based retro gaming video you'll see this side of 2016. An era of gaming between the 80's and 90's when games were loaded through a command line operating system, that required at least some knowledge with Autoexec editing. It was an era full of incredible games that even matched the Amiga in brilliance, such as Prince of Persia, The Secret of Monkey Island, Lands of Lore, Warcraft, Day of the Tentacle and many many more. Hell, even today games are still being played using the emulator DosBox or purchased through our favourite site GOG that have been tinkered with to get them to work on modern systems. As such this video by DOS Nostalgia shows us over 1 hour of DOS gaming footage, from Rayman all the way up to Shannara by Legend Entertainment Company. If  you haven't seen this you are missing out!

Ur-Quan Masters HD Remix - Space classic remade and freely available!

Released back in probably the best gaming years of the 90's, this space adventure/combat/RPG was an all time classic for the PC that has been un-matched by many even today, it also had a number of ports. Originally titled Star Control II, then remade by fans to The Ur-Quan Masters we then had the HD version called Ur-Quan Masters HD.  But now we have another version to play, this is the UQMHD Remix, a fork of The Urquan Masters HD (aka the hi-res version of the open-source version of Star Control II) that not only fixes many of the bugs in the HD vanilla version, but remakes it with remixed music and many more features to make the game more palatable for both new and old players,

OpenRCT2 project - Open-Source adaptation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, build 1541

I'm sure many of you remember the awesome game that is RollerCoaster Tycoon 2; a game by Chris Sawyer and published by Infograms in which you manage your very own theme park, with all it's rides, shops, guests and economic fortune. Well that same game has once again been given a rather nice improvement with the latest open source release of the ' OpenRCT2 Project 0.0.4 ' build 1541.

GOG's Big Winter Sale - Finale‏! - Last chance for epic gaming deals

After our previous mention for GOG's BIG Winter Sale with 500+ games up to 90% off, we are here to tell you that today - Sunday are the final days for all those awesome gaming deals. Yes indeed, today is GOG's BIG Winter Sale - Finale! that starts now and ends at 13.59 GMT on Sunday 13th December, with all those recent deals appearing in one big ending 23 hours from making this article. Today's bundles include Star Wars Blaster Bundle, Star Wars Sabre Bundle, Lucasfilm Classics, Bundle Quest, City Builder Kit, Best of Bullfrog, Wing Commander Saga, and many others in the 18+ bundle deal.

Open Fodder - Open sourced Cannon Fodder reaches version 0.9!

In 1993 Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive released one of the best top down war based shooters I have ever played in my life (War has never been so much fun).  It was none other than Cannon Fodder (wiki)! An action-strategy shooter first released for the Amiga and then ported to DOS, Atari ST, Archimedes, Jaguar, Mega Drive, SNES and 3DO. But the news of today comes from Robert Crossfield, the developer behind the open source port of the original as ' Open Fodder '.

Bethesda joins the GOG digital service with great deals! ( Doom-Quake-The Elder Scrolls)

After blowing us all away with the Forgotten Realms digital premiers, which contained great classics such as Eye of the Beholder and Dungeon Hack. GOG has once again announced the joining of Bethesda to the GOG digital service. That's right ladies and gentlemen, the incredible publisher Bethseda and many of it's classics such as; The Ultimate DOOM, DOOM II + Master Levels for Doom II + Final DOOM, Quake including Mission Pack 1 and Mission Pack 2, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind  - GOTY Edition, The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard  (premier) and The Elder Scrolls: Battlespire - (premier) are now available to buy at 33% off. But wait there's more!

Alley Cat - Atari/DOS cat classic coming to the ZX Spectrum

Probably one of the oldest games on our website is Bill Williams and published by Synapse Softwares 'Alley Cat' for the Atari 8bit in 1983 and MS-DOS in 1984. Playing as Freddy the Cat, your objective was to perform challenges such as catching mice in a persons home in order to reach his Cat love, Felicia. For what was a very odd game indeed with Cheese the size of an entire room, and a humorous cat falling behind the fence, Alley Cat is now being ported over to the ZX Spectrum by Destr and aims to be just as fun as the original.

Forgotten Realms : Dungeons & Dragons - An RPG experience like no other appears on GOG!

Somebody hold me as I'm about to fall over in disbelief, as GOG has announced an incredible retro RPG experience of Forgotten Realms (Dungeons and Dragons), which has now appeared on GOG's digital library. Finally after all these years, you too can play some of the finest RPG's ever released going way back to the Amiga and the DOS era. List includes; Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One (Eye of the Beholder I, II, III), Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two (Curse of the Azure Bonds, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Hillsfar, Pools of Darkness, Pool of Radiance, Secret of the Silver Blades, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, D&D: Unlimited Adventures) and Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three (Dungeon Hack, Menzoberranzan). That's hours and hours worth of RPG Dungeon Crawling, levelling up and enemy hacking!

Dimo's Quest - 1993 Amiga retro puzzler free for the PC

The next The Company.PL release is available and it's none other than the 1993 multi-platform puzzler of 'Dimo's Quest' by Infernal Byte Systems which is now available as a fully playable PC version. Originally on the Amiga, CD-I and even PC through DOS has been packed up with TC-UAE and loadable as a single exe file.  In Dimo's Quest you play as Dimo the frog who is on a quest to collect all the sweets in the Kingdom for the King to be able to marry his daughter Princess Dori.

Action packed Warhammer series premiers on GOG!

We have just been informed by our friends GOG, that the early stages of the Warhammer series has now premiered on the fantastic site of GOG.COM. An exclusive release for the site, they are DRM-free, running on modern Win OS, with original soundtracks, available digitally for the first time. Welcome to three original classics such as Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate, and Warhammer 40,000 Epic: Final Liberation which have now made an action packed appearance!