Xevious 128k - Arcade classic Xevious gets a 128k edition for the Amstrad CPC via Easter Egg

There's one type of genre that I loved playing in the arcades and more so on my home console, and that is the shoot em up genre! You know the type, enemy waves coming at you at all sides, your ship blasting across the landscape with adrenaline flowing as you try to survive and wipe them out. Well there's one such game that I have fond memories of, and that was Namco's 1982 vertical scrolling arcade shoot em up game Xevious. A game that I not only played and loved back on the Amstrad CPC, but it was one of those games that I also have fond memories of playing with my dad when I was a kid. So why is this game getting a mention? Well, read on and find out for more ;).

Easter Egg - Enjoyable high grade platformer updated for the Amiga

The games just keep on coming and more so Amiga ones, as Per-Ola Eriksson has contacted us about a rather lovely looking game called Easter Egg that has been updated for 2016. Developed in backbone with soundtrack by Andrzej Drozd and graphics by Czeslaw Mnich, Easter Egg is an enjoyable yet challenging 2D arcade game where you play as the role of a chick through 31 levels, collecting eggs and avoiding enemies. Although the demo version was launched in 2014, this latest one features grass, ice and lava stages!

Risky Rick - Rick Dangerous port in development for the CBS Colecovision

Here on Indie Retro News we've always had a soft spot for the Core Design and published by Firebird in 1989 game 'Rick Dangerous'. It is a very challenging action platformer that made you feel like an Indiana Jones character traversing dangerous locations such as caves and temples, avoiding the bad guys and making sure you didn't get hurt by deadly spikes and rolling boulders. It was such a well known game it appeared on the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and DOS but there was a system it didn't appear on, and that was the CBS Colecovision, at least until now.

R-Type 128K - One of the best Amstrad CPC remakes available!

Usually I'm not one to bang on about how good most remakes are as usually they are of a lower quality affair. But when it comes to the R-Type 128K remake for the Amstrad CPC that's an exception. This cult classic shoot em up was first ported across from the ZX to the Amstrad CPC in the very late 1980's, although it was a good game it was a rather lackluster port. Not that the ZX was a bad machine, but the Amstrad CPC version had very little enhancements and actually ended up being worse than the ZX Spectrum version  (slower being one such problem). But fast forward to 2011-12 and one of the best things was to ever happen to the Amstrad version!