Centipede - Atari's 1980 classic is getting an Arcade to Commodore Amiga port via Acidbottle

Acidbottle has officially announced another project to add to his ever growing list of Amiga releases, with the aim to bring Atari’s historic 1981 arcade blockbuster, Centipede, straight to Commodore Amiga. The forthcoming port is designed to run beautifully across the entire Amiga family, fully supporting OCS, ECS, and AGA configurations. For younger players or those needing a refresher, the golden-age original was designed by legendary creators Dona Bailey and Ed Logg. It stood as a monumental commercial triumph for Atari, heavily celebrated for breaking industry boundaries by attracting a massive audience of female gamers.

Defender (Williams) - 1980's scrolling shooter by Williams Electronics for arcades as an Acidbottle Amiga port

Amiga developer Acidbottle has announced the release of the horizontal shoot-’em-up project Defender, a faithful recreation of the classic arcade hit. The game’s journey to the platform is a unique one, having initially started development in the Godot engine on PC. To make the jump to the Amiga however, the developer dusted off the unfinished framework and utilized modern AI tools to assist in translating and optimizing the code across to the Amiga, while using the official arcade source code as a strict reference point to hopefully bring across this authentic gameplay feel.

Section Z - AcidBottle's Amiga Port of Capcom's Arcade Classic is in development!

AcidBottle, the prolific developer behind impressive Commodore Amiga ports like Breakthru and Wonder Boy, has officially announced their latest project: an ambitious conversion of Capcom’s 1985 arcade hit, Section Z. Described by the developer as a "prequel, of sorts" to the later Side Arms, the Amiga version of Section Z is being built using the versatile Scorpion Engine, which has become the gold standard for high-performance and high quality development on the Amiga!

Fast Food Dizzy 2 - An unofficial Amiga AGA sequel to Codemaster's Fast Food Dizzy as a big box edition pre-order!

AcidBottle(Abgames) is certainly no stranger to creating quality releases for the Amiga; the Arcade to Commodore Amiga games of Breakthru and Wonder Boy are just two of the ones that stand out on IndieRetroNews. Well, here are with another fantastic news story in relation to AcidBottle. As thanks to our good friends at BitmapSoft for letting us know, we've been told that Fast Food Dizzy 2: The unofficial sequel to Codemaster's Fast Food Dizzy, and 1st place winner @ AmigaJam 2024 by Abgames, is not only getting a deluxe edition through BitmapSoft. But as of today you can pre-order the game through BitmapSoft.

Breakthru - A Commodore Amiga conversion/port of a Data East Arcade game has been released!

If you're looking for further Arcade updates on the site, other than the ones we featured previously such as Final Fight Enhanced, Donkey Kong and Trojan, then we have just been told by our good friend Saberman through Facebook, that AcidBottle together with JMD(Audio) has finally released the Arcade to Commodore Amiga game of Breakthru; A 1986 side scrolling shooter by Data East in which you must drive a military vehicle through enemy territory to rescue your PK430 aircraft.

Breakthru - An Amiga port of a Data East Arcade game will be released on the Amiga this February!

We've featured a lot of Arcade to Amiga conversions/ports throughout the years, from the more recent Final Fight Enhanced to Super Xevious, Flying Shark and even Green Beret. Well if you're looking for even more Arcade like updates on the site, then we have just been told by our good friend Tom, that AcidBottle together with JMD(Audio) is still working on the Arcade to Amiga game of Breakthru; A 1986 side scrolling shooter by Data East in which you must drive a military vehicle through enemy territory to rescue your PK430 aircraft.

Tiger-Heli - Taito's vertically scrolling shooter is coming to the Amiga. Early footage shown! (Demo Added)

If you're looking for even more Amiga goodness, then you've come to the right place. As thanks to our good friend Amiga Bill who streams top quality Amiga games through Twitch, we've been told that AcidBottle is working on an Amiga port of the classic Arcade game of 'Tiger-Heli'. A game that was originally released back in 1985 in the Arcades and then ported over to the NES and Playstation. To coincide with this cool news story, we have some early footage of the game which is being created using Earok's Scorpion Engine.

Wonder Boy - HOT NEWS as an Arcade game from 1986 gets an unofficial Amiga port by Acidbottle

Wonder Boy is a game designed by Ryuichi Nishizawa which started its life as a skateboard rock jumping and axe bashing platformer, that later became the great adventure platformer with RPG elements known as ' Wonderboy in Monster Land '. Both of these games have lived on in the hearts of many, and as such, thanks to a heads up by Saberman, we've been told AcidBottle has released the much talked about Amiga port of the 1986 Arcade classic of 'Wonder Boy'.

Wonderboy III - Monster Lair (AGA) may be in the works for the Amiga after Wonderboy 1200 is done!

We've featured Wonderboy many times now on Indie Retro News, from the modern remake of Wonderboy The Dragons Trap, to the Amiga versions of Wonderboy in Monster Land SE, and the upcoming Wonderboy 1200; An Arcade game from 1986 as an unofficial Amiga port by Acidbottle. Well here we are with another Wonderboy story, as Earok recently contacted us, to let us know that Acidbottle may also start on a project to bring Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair over to the Amiga 1200 using the Scorpion Engine. Although he does state this might happen when the Wonderboy 1200 port is done!