Macky and Pentell is a small simple arcade-style shoot-em-up fan game, based on the video game “Twinkle Star Sprites”. Select a stage, shoot down enemies, collect coins, and go for the high score.

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Tags: arcade, Macky, Pentell, RETRO, shmup, sprites, star, twinkle

Heroine’s Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is an adventure / RPG hybrid. Like in many adventure games, you have a world to save, and must use your wit, guile and inventory to puzzle your way through. Like in many roleplaying games, you can customize your character with various classes and skills, and must train yourself in combat to stand a chance against the fierce monsters in your way. The game is designed in the spirit and atmosphere of the classics, and strives to have the same high quality of art, music, and plot. With multiple character classes and several solutions to many puzzles, the game will have excellent replayability.

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Tags: ADVENTURE, Crystal, heroine, quest, ragnarok, RETRO, RPG, shard, sierra, winter

In an expansion of the Historical Software Collection, the Internet Archive has opened the Console Living Room, a collection of console video games from the 1970s and 1980s. The games can be played directly in the browser! At the moment without sound.

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Tags: 1970, 1980, archive, atari, colecovision, console, history, jsmess, mess, RETRO

Originally intended for release in the early 90s, Putty Squad features old-skool gameplay and frenetic action that showcases the creativity the Amiga platform was renowned for, in it’s unique and unaltered glory. While Putty Squad is available for current and next-generation consoles and is a re-imagining of a classic game, The Amiga version released on Christmas Eve, 2013 is the original code base, making Putty Squad for the Amiga the most authentic Putty experience available.

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Tags: amiga, PLATFORM, putty, RETRO, squad, system 3

Descend to the caves and try to amass as much gold and riches as possible. You win the game if you’re able to retrieve the Golden Crown, but even if you wont reach it, your score will be saved and can be sent to an online scoreboard! Carrying gems and other larger treasures to a shop will earn you quite a bit of money, which you can also use to buy items.

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Tags: ADVENTURE, arcade, Dig, Excavatorrr, hempuli, mine, pixel, PLATFORM, RETRO

SideLine is a 2D side-scrolling shooter for DOS computers, created in the mid-90’s by a Taiwanese group called EMAG (Electronic Music and Animated Graphics, also GAME backwards). In October of 2013 a group of fans received permission from the game’s producer Jiun-Ming “Jimmy” Hwang to distribute SideLine’s original version.

Since the game requires DOSbox to run, this game is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

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Tags: dos, gradius, r-type, RETRO, shmup, shooter, sideline

TinyXEVIVOS is a remake based on the classic arcade shooter Xevious.

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Tags: arcade, japan, RETRO, shmup, Tiny, xevious, xevivos, zakichi

YCOM: Enemy Unlikely is a free fan-made demake of the game XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

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Tags: demake, enemy, pixel, RETRO, space, strategy, turn, unknown, unlikely, x-com, y-com

Speccy Jam is a regular world wide 1 week game jam, where indie game developers come together to create games with the flavour of the legendary 8-bit personal home computer, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

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Tags: gamepack, Jam, RETRO, speccy, spectrum, zx

Here is a gamepack containing some (not all) of the games submitted for the Gameboy Jam 2 – 2013..

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Tags: 2013, gameboy, gamepack, Jam, nintendo, RETRO