A Friday heads up for all of our Amiga readers , as we've recently found out through the EAB forums, that Tukinem together with Retronics, is still working on bringing the Polish point and click adventure game of 'Sołtys' over to the Commodore Amiga 1200 with an English release date of May 23, 2025. A game which was originally released by LK Avalon for MS-DOS on May 23, 1995. To coincide with this news, we've got some early footage of the game below.
Another interesting news story for all of our Amiga readers , as we've recently found out through Saberman, that Paweł Tukatsch together with Retronics, is still working on bringing the Polish point and click adventure game of 'Sołtys' over to the Commodore Amiga 1200. A game which was originally released by LK Avalon for MS-DOS on May 23, 1995. To coincide with this news, while we don't know when it will be released, Saberman has at least provided some early footage below.
Something slightly different for your evening entertainment, as we have recently been contacted through Facebook, to tell you that the same creator of the awesome Commodore 64 game of Deathflood Dungeon of Doom, has released the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS game of 'Devolution' via the itch io page and main website linked below. To coincide with this news, Saberman has done a video of this rather unique strategy game by Windigo Productions!
It's time for some very early Christmas news, as if you have an old PC at hand or an emulator installed such as DOSBox, you might like to play this fun for all the family game of Crimbo by Blackjet. An unofficial ZX Spectrum to DOS conversion of the game "Crimbo" by Little Shop of Pixles. A game that was also released some time back for the Commodore Amiga by Spud. To coincide with this news that's been sent to us by Liqmatrix, you can either download the game below or wait for the latest footage provided by Saberman.
It feels like it was only just yesterday that we had the pleasure of playing Juan J. Martínez's rather enjoyable Match 3 puzzle game of The Return of Traxtor: a game that was released for the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum a few years ago. Well if you remember playing this game back then, you'll be pleased to know that we have been told by the creator, that it has been converted over to MS-DOS! A game in which you must match 3 coloured shapes and objects to obtain a high score using a special space ship!
It's not often we feature MS-DOS games, unless of course it's a glorious classic released on GOG, but today's announcement is something special for the retro game scene. As we've been told by our good friend Juan J. Martínez, who released other great games such as Hyperdrive(CPC) and Night Knight(MSX), that he has released an MS-DOS game of Gold Mine Run!: A high quality platformer that isn't just inspired by the classics, but you have to collect all the gold throughout each of the 30 stages to move to the next!
It's the middle of the week and it's time for some fresh news to be announced! The first one up that comes highly recommended and has had a recent update, is Alevgor's action platformer 'Haunted Lands - Burial Grounds'. A game that isn't just a PC homage to classic DOS games such as Commander Keen, Dangerous Dave and Bio Menace, but you'll be fighting deadly demons and ghouls with a powerful shotgun at your disposal. To coincide with this news, you can check out the latest Haunted Lands: Burial Grounds trailer which is watchable below.
Apogee Software certainly released some great games in the 90's, games such as Monster Bash, Bio Menace and even our personal favorite Duke Nukem. Well one game you've probably never heard of is the platformer version of Duke Nukem 4Ever. That's because while the game did start its life as a side-scrolling platform shooter in 1996 by 3D Realms, it was scrapped and became lost in the sands of time. We had the pleasure of playing Duke Nukem 3D in 1996 by 3D Realms and the misfortune of playing the first person shooter of Duke Nukem Forever by Gearbox Software in 2011.
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This game might not look like much, with it's bare backgrounds and tiny coloured objects, but this is actually a preview Atari XL/XE release, that comes across very much like Scorched Tanks on the Amiga and the MS-DOS game Scorched Earth. Developed by pirx and as a multiplayer game with up to 2 players so far, your ultimate goal is to wipe out your opponent by working out the correct trajectory that your Baby Missile flies through the air and hits dead on target!
Another great heads up for all the Amiga owners out there, well ones that can run it anyway, is the classic first person shooter of ' Duke Nukem 3D ', has been ported over to the Amiga by BSzili as the first public test for you to try. Originally developed by 3D Realms back in the 90's, Nuke Nukem was not only a commercial hit selling about 3.5 million copies, but in the United States alone it was the 12th best-selling computer game in the period from 1993 to 1999, with 950,000 units sold (wiki).
I've always been an Adventure gamer on both my Amiga and PC, and have such fond memories of games such as The Secret of Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer, Fable, Kings Quest and even the Quest for Glory series. In fact one such game I remember and always recommend as one of the top 10 Adventure games to play is the early 90's game Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness! So why am I mentioning this fabulous game on IRN? Well here's some great news for you all, as AshLancer has released the long-awaited Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness Enhanced Edition!
We've featured a number of great match 3 games on Indie Retro News, games such as The Return of Traxtor and Vegetables Deluxe to name but a few. But now after getting another heads up via Twitter , and from the developer himself, we've come across a brand new game for MS-DOS systems called 'Super Space Fuel'; a freely playable love letter to DOS EGA games which has been created directly in Borland Turbo C on a 33MHz 486 PC.
Another great Amiga update through Indie Retro News on this very hot Tuesday, as we've just found out through the Saberman, that Muzza has just released a new demo version 2 for the work in progress MS-DOS conversion of the classic action shooter game Turrican II. The second game in the Turrican series, which was originally developed by Factor 5 in the 90's and released on the Amiga, C64, CDTV, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum, and later for DOS.
Way back in 2014 JOTD released the PC version of "Super Cars III" ; a game which was his own remake of the hit action racing classic "Super Cars II". Originally developed by Magnetic Fields and published by Gremlin Graphics in the early 90's for Amiga & Atari ST. Well fast forward to today however and do we have a great update for you. As JOTD has just released another version to his work in progress Supercars 2 AGA; A rebuilt & adapted to AGA ripped from Supercars International 1996. A game which in itself was a re-make of Super Cars II (tweaked gameplay, updated 256-color VGA graphics and a new soundtrack).
Something slightly different for today's retro heads up, as we've just been contacted through Twitter, that as from today, you can download the latest multi-system release of Silk Dust: Emilia Vittorini's 3rd; a brand new text adventure game that has come out of a long tested beta, on eighteen different machines, such as the C64, VIC20+32K, C128, Plus/4, Amiga, CPC6128, MSX, ZX Spectrum 48K and MS-DOS.... All developed by Davide Bucci and downloadable via itch.io.
Way back in 2014 JOTD released the PC version of "Super Cars III" ; a game which was his own remake of the hit action racing classic "Super Cars II". Originally developed by Magnetic Fields and published by Gremlin Graphics in the early 90's for Amiga & Atari ST. Well fast forward to today however and do we have some rather interesting news for you. As JOTD has just released an early work in progress alpha version of Supercars 2 AGA; A rebuilt & adapted to AGA ripped from Supercars International 1996. A game which in itself was a re-make of Super Cars II (tweaked gameplay, updated 256-color VGA graphics and a new soundtrack).
Another great heads up for all the Amiga owners out there, well ones that can run it anyway, is the MS-DOS, Sega Saturn and Playstation first person shooter of ' Exhumed/Powerslave ', has been ported over to the Amiga by BSzili as the first public test for you to try. Originally developed by Lobotomy Software back in 1996/7, Exhumed/Powerslave is a 90's Egyptian-themed FPS that is also using the Build engine, as referenced in our previous Shadow Warrior to Amiga port conversion.
If you're looking for even more seriously cool Amiga news and want to try something different on your home system or via emulation, then we've just found out through the EAB forums, that Muzza has just released an early work in progress MS-DOS conversion of the classic action shooter game Turrican II. The second game in the Turrican series, which was originally developed by Factor 5 in the 90's and released on the Amiga, C64, CDTV, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum, and later for DOS.