Yet another game has appeared in our box of retro goodness, as we've recently been informed through Facebook and The New Dimension on Twitter, that if you're looking for a cool Shoot 'em up to play right now, then make sure to check out TND and Alf Yngve's overhauled C64 game of 'Cosmic Combat DX''; A fun arcade blaster for one or two players in which you must fly your spaceship into the deep void of space blasting through fleets of assorted alien invaders.
The C64 news just keeps on coming, as if Pillars and PETSCII Portal wasn't enough to whet your appetite, then you might be interested to learn as thanks to a heads up from a good friend of ours, we've just found out that if you head on over to the itch page linked below, you can now download the latest C64 game of Ray Fish Deluxe; a brand new vertical scrolling underwater shoot 'em up from Martin Piper, Richard Bayliss, Alf Yngve and Hugues (Ax!s) Poisseroux published by The New Dimension!
The C64 news just keeps on coming, as if Cosmic Combat DX wasn't enough to whet your appetite, then you might be interested to learn as thanks to a heads up from our good friend Per Ola, that as from 3rd December, you'll be able to play the latest C64 game of Ray Fish Deluxe; a brand new vertical scrolling underwater shoot 'em up from Martin Piper, Richard Bayliss, Alf Yngve and Hugues (Ax!s) Poisseroux published by The New Dimension!
Yet another game has appeared in our box of retro goodness, as we've recently been informed via Per Ola through Facebook and The New Dimension on Twitter, that if you're looking for a cool Shoot 'em up to play as from 3rd December onwards, then make sure to check out TND and Alf Yngve's overhauled C64 game of 'Cosmic Combat DX''; A fun arcade blaster for one or two players in which you must fly your spaceship into the deep void of space blasting through fleets of assorted alien invaders.
Growing up there was nothing more satisfying than playing top down scrolling shoot 'em ups such as the fantastic classic Tyrian and more especially Tyrian 2000 before it went open source in 2007. Well if you also loved those games and want to play a new game inspired by those classics, then make sure to check out GangoGames LLC's awesome looking high quality Shoot 'em up called 'Hyper Echelon'; A game which takes inspiration from arcade classics while bringing its own authentic flavor of frantic, tactical shooting action - a bold experience with enough teeth for hardcore players, and plentiful rewards to welcome newcomers.
In 1984 a great shoot 'em up was released for the Arcade by Capcom and that game was 1942. A game in which you shoot down enemy planes, avoided being shot out of the sky and performed awesome rolls while collecting power ups. One of the more unusual power ups was being escorted by two other planes in formation that gave you the edge. It was an awesome game and still is today, but thanks huffelduff we have a brand new SEUCK game on the C64 that is inspired by 1942/3 and is called 'Mediterranean Air War'.
Other than adventure games and platformers, I've also had a great fondness for shoot 'em ups, from retro games such as R-Type and Project-X to modern inspirations such as the fabulous Super Hydorah. There isn't a Shoot 'em up that I'd turn away from just to pick up a power up and blast a few waves of enemies! So to see a high quality shoot em up that's in development by White Ninja Studio called 'Irena Genesis Metal Fury' for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis certainly piqued my wave blasting interest!
If you're looking for even more great news then you've come to the right place, as trawling through the itch.io website, we've found out that not only can you download and play the digital download version of Design/Chaos new C64 game of 'Ewe Woz 'Ere DX, but you can also buy the cartridge edition through Bitmap Soft. An action packed game in which playing as Baaary: Mutton Command, you must defend the fields from an invasion of Traazkists.
Yet another Shoot 'em up is about to grace our home computers, as thanks to heads up in the Commodore Amiga Facebook group from a good friend of ours, we've been told that the cool looking Shoot 'em up of ' Boss Machine ', has been teased again with new footage showing new enemies, a big boss, smooth scrolling and lots of firepower. As mentioned by our previous write ups, Boss Machine is a high quality Amiga AGA game that is in development by Daniel Stephens, Kevin Saunders and Lee Smith.
It's crazy how many Shoot 'em ups we feature on Indie Retro News, I know for sure the C64 and ZX Spectrum has certainly had its fair share of homebrew blasters on our website. Well now it's time for the MSX to get in on the fun. As we've recently been told through Facebook, that you can now download a rather cool looking Shoot 'em up called 'Alien Attack'. A game that the MSXDev competition has said is "A fully loaded, all-in, Zanac-like vertical shooter that blows you out of your socks and rips your pants off, if you’re not careful".
Shoot em ups and Shooters have never gone out of fashion, there's something to be said about blasting waves of enemies on screen, while collecting wicked power ups and listening to that thumping soundtrack. Thankfully one such developer likes to keep the retro goodness going, as Clobberasm has released a WEB port of Raptor; A legendary DOS game "Raptor: Call of the Shadows" which was originally released by Apogee software way back in 1994.
In 1984 a great shoot 'em up was released for the Arcade by Capcom and that game was 1942. A game in which you had to shoot down enemy planes, avoid being shot out of the sky while performing awesome rolls and collecting power ups. Thankfully this game which was one of the highlights of that era, is still coming to the Amiga. As thanks to a heads up from a good friend of ours, we are 100% sure that Agermose is working on a full Arcade conversion using a number of tools such as Assembly, MAME and UAE. (We did the first feature in 2019 but we needed to be sure it was still being developed)
Putting aside the C64 and MSX news, as we've just come across an update from Micro Chops, that a new ZX Spectrum has been released via Bitmap Soft called ' Super Hair '. Now if you've seen this game character before, that's because this is the third in the trilogy of games, with Hair being in previous titles such as The Hair-Raising Adventures Of Mr Hair and Mr Hair and The Fly. Two fabulous platformers that you can still download and play via Itch.io
Another retro gaming news story has hit our inbox, as Saberman was kind enough to let us know, that if you're looking for a cool looking Shoot 'em up for your ZX Spectrum, then you might like to play Tony Kingsmill's new game of ' Xenoblaster '; A top down game which is not only available to download but also as a physical release that's available now from CRONOSOFT.
We have such a fondness for the Pico-8 here at IRN, a virtual platform with such limited capabilities, the community produces many outstanding games and demos, even ones made in a month. One such game called Galactic Wars, an entry in the 2017 1GAM, blew us away with high grade gameplay, self proclaimed as inspired by classics like Gradius, Galaga or R-Type. Well we've come a long way since that game appeared, as fast forward to this week however, and the creators Volcano Bytes have announced the extended arcade version of Galactic Wars is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Bit of a slow news day I'm afraid as I'm currently doing an Amiga 1200 upgrade with a new keyboard membrane, CF install and AGA folder creation. But still to keep the news flowing atleast, here's a new preview you might like to try out on your C64, it's Terminal Fighter by Herkules and MDA; a monochrome side scrolling shoot em up in which you need to blast waves of enemies while keeping an eye on both your time and any lives you have left.
Here on Indie Retro News we try our utmost to give you the best in Amiga updates, and thus as of today we've just been informed by the team of TIGERSKUNK, that the eagerly awaited Amiga game of 'Inviyya' published via poly.play, is finally here and ready to be played by Amiga owners across the globe. This game of which we have featured many many times since its first announcement in October 2016. Looks to be an incredible game, with not just amazing scrolling graphics, but super action, great sound effects, and a real hark back to days of R-Type or Project-X!