An Arcade conversion What if of 'Street Fighter II' on an Amiga 1200, and a new graphics engine!

I'm sure many of you remember the Street Fighter games, more especially Street Fighter 2; a game which originally appeared on the Arcades, and was then ported to pretty much every system you could think of, including such systems as the Amiga, Atari St and even the ZX Spectrum.  Well fast forward to today however and a great video has just appeared via the Amiga community, as this video(link) explores how an arcade port of Street Fighter II could have been made for the Commodore Amiga 1200.

Full Throttle 2020 - Classic Motorbike LucasArts Adventure re-imagined (Video Only)

After a really tedious week so far with some poor weather thrown in as well, Saturday evening has just come out with a surprising Adventure twist. Now I know many of you have already played the graphical remaster of Full Throttle by Double Fine Studios, which is a remaster of the famous 1995 adventure game by LucasArts. But what if the game was released sporting detail to that of an animated movie? Well that looks like for the most part that has just happened!

The Age of Heroes - Work in progress C64 game by Legend of Atlantis creators gets new footage!

The T Storey, G Rottensteiner, A Volkers and S Collier Facebook group has been a buzz of likes and shares this week as according to the team behind the fantastic game of Argus and the Aliens vibe of Organism. They have recently done a big heads up with new footage of their upcoming action platformer slasher of 'AGE OF HEROES'; which looks very much like a high quality Rastan but instead developed by Achim Volkers, music and sfx by Saul Cross and art and design by Trevor Storey.

A1200.Net Amiga 1200 Keycaps mass production launch within 15 days!

Indie Retro News is back from its weekend break and we are pleased to tell you as thanks to a heads up via A1200.net, that the Amiga 1200 keycap campaign is now at such a point mass production will launch within 15 days! Yes indeed after all this time every Amiga owner across the globe who's supported the campaign will finally be able to complete their new case kit, as according A1200.net, Phil is going to the factory to oversee mass production launch within 15 days and Mass production continues from Mid September. To coincide with this news a new video has been shown giving us a glimpse of the new samples.

Eye of the Beholder - Homage - A Fatbot Games Fan Video!

It wasn't long ago that we gave a huge shout out to Fatbot Studio's dungeon crawler of Vaporum. Which turned the fantasy style gameplay on its head as a rather epic Steampunk crawler with strange mechanical beasts, contraptions and rooms of steam based machinery. Well it seems as if the developers haven't been sitting idle since its release, as just like us as fans of Eye of the Beholder, which helped shape a genre ( and their game ), they have shown us an Eye of the Beholder - Homage video, as a thanks to that great classic.

Crash 2018 Annual - Kickstarter revival of the classic ZX Spectrum Crash magazine a BIG success!

It wasn't long ago that we told you of Chris Wilkins newest Kickstarter for The Crash 2018 Annual; A revival of the classic ZX Spectrum Crash magazine, wrapped up in the guise of a Christmas annual, with a brand new Oliver Frey Christmas cover! Well we are pleased to tell you not only is this Kickstarter a success, but it has smashed its goal of £12,000, reached £37,545 through a number of awesome stretch goals and there's still 4 days to go!

Crash 2018 Annual - Kickstarter revival of the classic ZX Spectrum Crash magazine is launched!

From the same person who gave us some of the best retro gaming books we've seen for a good few years such as The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels, The Story of the Oliver Twins and The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels, who we know as Chris Wilkens, has launched possibly the best kickstarter yet! The Crash 2018 Annual; A revival of the classic ZX Spectrum Crash magazine, wrapped up in the guise of a Christmas annual, with a brand new Oliver Frey Christmas cover!

Crash 2018 Annual - An upcoming Kickstarter revival of the classic ZX Spectrum Crash magazine

You've probably heard the name many times ' Chris Wilkins ' , a highly respected retro head who has launched countless retro gaming books such as The History of Ocean Software, The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels, The Story of the Oliver Twins and The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels. But now after many Kickstarter successes, he is about to launch possibly the greatest of them all, The Crash 2018 Annual; A revival of the classic ZX Spectrum Crash magazine, wrapped up in the guise of a Christmas annual, with a brand new Oliver Frey Christmas cover. To coincide with this amazing news, we have an exclusive first look at the upcoming Kickstarter, with a video to show you before anyone else by Jeremy Wood and music by Allister Brimble

ZX SPECTRUM 1982-2016 - 5½ hours of ZX Spectrum games featured!

There probably isn't a person amongst us that hasn't heard of the ZX Spectrum, an incredible 8-bit machine that was released here in the UK in 1982 by Sinclair Research. There were so many games released over the years that it was hard to keep up, with some of the best games being Ghost Castle, Target Renegade, Jet Pac and even the latest remake Crystal Kingdom Dizzy. So how would you like to be taken back by nostalgia and see some of the best programmed ZX Spectrum games? You would good! As Modern Retro Gaming has released a video called "ZX SPECTRUM 1982-2016: 5½ hours with 600+ top quality colorful games!"

GOTHALION Official Intro - A worthy pixel art gaming video you've got to see!

Indie Retro News is a real sucker for great pixel art, especially as on many occasions we find it hard to pick our jaws up off the floor when a game is announced that has some of the best pixel art going for it. But when it comes to videos we usually hold back unless it's something crazy that makes us think OMG I've got to tell everyone about it. So here we are with the GOTHALION Official Intro, an incredible mind blowing retro based pixel art video that was done by PixelSword94 with music by Tiasu. Seriously watch the video and take it all in, it's brilliant!

A1200.Net compatible Keycaps for Amiga computers exclusive mold update

Thanks to A1200.net both the new Amiga case and the latest keycap campaign, it really brings the Amiga straight out into the modern era with defined detail and brightness not seen commercially since the dawn of the Amiga itself. But after many people have been showing off their rather awesome Amiga cases such as Black, White and even Purple ones, we now look towards the latest mold process for the already successful Keycap campaign, which we will show you in this exclusive video update released by A1200.net.

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.

The Amstrad CPC 6128 USB Floppy Emulator Hardware + New sound board addition!

Through last month we did two big hardware reviews for the Amstrad community, one of those was the DDI3 USB Floppy Emulator for the Amstrad CPC 464 and the other was The Amstrad CPC 6128 USB Floppy Emulator. Both of these hardware reviews were very popular and it's because of that, a good number of Amstrad users are now proud owners of these two devices developed by Zaxon also known as Piotr Bugaj. But the news of today is, the 6128 USB Floppy Emulator is going to be upgraded with a new sound board, which adds disk loading sounds, just like an original disk drive.

The Year Video Games Died - An interesting look back at our retro past

Trawling through the big internet looking for that great retro update to pass the time of a boring week, I came across a fascinating video by Ahoy that takes a look at a time when the gaming industry nearly died a slow painful death. Yes many years ago before the time of the great 8-bit machines such as the Amstrad CPC 464, the C64 and the ZX Spectrum, there was a great era of gaming with the Atari 2600 that almost ended as a complete disaster, and it is that system where this story begins!

Amiga Game Remakes for Android by Tomáš Konvička

To be honest apart from the odd Android game here and there, we tend not to feature them. Most are in our eyes are rather poor and just a way to cash in on microtransactions and other such paid for in game nasties. However thanks to a find by s2325, he's come across a video on Youtube which shows some of the better games that have appeared for Android based devices. This is in fact the 'Amiga Game Remakes for Android' upload by Tomáš Konvička, which has games such as Lemmings, Another World and Battle Squadron. It's just a shame that the video is only 11mins long, as I'm sure there are other great Amiga games ported over, well that's if the Amiga/Android emulator uae4all doesn't take your fancy!

A600 Vampire V2 - Total acceleration for the Amiga 600!

Throughout this month so far we have been writing about the ' Vampire 600 V2 ' which according to our previous articles 1 and 2 is a beastly accelerator for the Amiga 600 by Igor Majstorovic, (Majsta). and tcore (CPU) by Gunnar von Boehn, (BigGun) that basically turns your Amiga 600 into one of the fastest Amiga's available! Not only that, but without the heat, the mad power requirements and still gives solid frame rates in games such as Doom and Day of the Tentacle whereas other Amiga's would slow to a crawl. In fact a number of videos have now surfaced showing us just how good this piece of kit is. It's just a shame we don't have an Amiga 600 on hand to give you our thoughts, but we will be waiting on the Amiga 1200 Vampire when and if that arrives!

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!

Kaizo Trap - This is some seriously awesome animation!

Usually we bang on about games and music videos related to gaming, but this might be unlike anything you've seen before! Created by Guy Collins Animation, ' Kaizo Trap ' is a full on animated video showing what could possibly happen if your other half was trapped in a NES video game and you had to save him. Not only is the animation of high quality, but everything about this video will make your jaw drop from both the level design and music by Leslie Wai. Watch as she dies again and again, but just keeps on going, just as you and I would with a handy push of the continue button!

The 464 Project - 464 Games On The Amstrad CPC464 by Novabug

It's not very often we feature other gaming channels unless it's on Facebook, but today we are going to make an exception for Novabug's latest video of 'The 464 Project - 464 Games On The Amstrad CPC464'. With several months of compiling to mark the 31st anniversary of the Amstrad CPC464, this latest impressive video features almost 1 hour of CPC games, four hundred and sixty four of them. As the retro gamer says : Some great, Some bad, some ugly, but all of them on the Amstrad.

Pillars of Eternity - How Obsidian was saved from Bankruptcy

Obsidian Entertainment established in 2003 after the disestablishment of Interplay Productions' Black Isle Studios, released some fantastic games that are still loved to this day. Games such as Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II, Neverwinter Nights 2 and South Park : The Stick of Truth. However all was not well as Obsidian was very close to being shut down. It was a time of great sadness as emotions were felt throughout the game studio, yet little did they know that their Kickstarter idea of Pillars of Eternity was to change all that and set the path of the company to another high point in it's life raising over 1 million in funding. Watch the Developer Diaries and see how it all came to pass.