Author: Danny Neleman

Publisher Bitobit has released The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure on PC via Steam. The new title revisits the arcade classic The NewZealand Story, originally created by Taito, and expands its world with new content while also doing its best to retain the original’s playful platforming design. Cult Arcade Classic First released in arcades in 1988, The NewZealand Story gained a dedicated following thanks to its colourful presentation, inventive level structure and its unlikely hero: a small kiwi bird named Tiki. The game combined platforming across maze-like stages filled with enemies and environmental puzzles, vehicles and hidden routes. According to Bitobit,…

The ScummVM team has announced on their website that new support for several classic American Laser Games titles has been added in the latest daily builds of the emulator. The update introduces compatibility for the DOS versions of the following games: If you who own the original PC CD-ROM releases in one way or the other you can now test these games through ScummVM’s development builds. The team encourages users to try them out, capture screenshots, and report any issues through the project’s bug tracker. For those without the full releases, several demo versions are also available for testing. You…

When the opportunity for a review of Clawpunk came by we instantly knew this was a indie game that needs to be on Retrolike.net. It fits or mission mantra quite litterally. Games we review either are modern game ideas in a retro look, or a retro games concepts in modern look. Clawpunk definitely fits the first mold. A roguelite run-and-gun in a pixel art cyberpunk look, with heavy emphasis of blowing stuff up. CyberMiauw The world of Clawpunk is ruled by grotesque elites, corporations, and militarized militias that treat the streets as disposable. Refusing to comply or conform, a gang…

Japanese studio HyperDevbox has released a free playable demo of Kings Do Not Fall on Steam. The retro-inspired beat ’em up is scheduled to launch in Q1 2026 on PC via Steam and on Android through Google Play. An exact release date has not yet been announced. The demo offers access to the game’s opening level and introduces fun little competitive element: players can compete for a spot in the Demo Top 30 leaderboard. A very creative way to add some traction to the game’s demo, we think. A kingdom on the brink Kings Do Not Fall is set in…

As a teen, I was somehow mesmerized by the PC-DOS port of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Oblivious to the mediocrity most reviewers of the time branded the game with. While the gameplay clearly had its shortcomings, the way it captured the grim atmosphere, combined with the brooding summer Los Angeles setting and the film’s strong cast, kept drawing me back again and again. It even inspired me to save up for an Amiga, as the screenshots on the back of the box suggested that platform delivered the definitive version. In the end, my parents sponsored a new “family” PC, which…

If you are an R-Type or shmup fan, you are currently well served. We recently reviewed R-Type Delta HD Boosted and we’ve already covered the reveal of R-Type Dimensions III, the upcoming installment in IREM’s long-running horizontal shmup series. Yesterday, Strictly Limited, the limited-run physical retail branch of ININ Games, added the physical editions for Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and PC to its webshop. Pre-orders for the Collector’s Edition open on February 9, 2026. The Special Edition is already available to order. The Special Edition is priced at €59, while the Collector’s Edition comes in at €199. R-Type…

For many players, Street Racer is little more than a generic Mario Kart clone. For PC gamers in the 1990s, however, it was a genuinely enjoyable alternative and one of the stronger racers available on the platform at the time. I only discovered later that the PC, Saturn and PlayStation ports were effectively afterthoughts, released nearly two years after the original SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis versions. Despite that, they can reasonably be viewed as early remasters rather than straight conversions. Now, QUByte Interactive brings together both the original releases and one of the later 32-bit versions in a single compilation.…

In the 1980s, almost every viable home computer platform produced at least one Indiana Jones inspired single screen platformer. Every gamer brought up in the 80s can come up with at least a couple of examples. Pitfall! on the Atari VCS, Rick Dangerous and Caverns of Khafka on the Commodore 64, while the Apple II had Aztec. On top of that came the officially licensed Indiana Jones games, of which dozens were released during that era. Parker Brothers’ Montezuma’s Revenge (not to be confused with traveller’s diarrhea, although the pun was clearly intended) arrived in the post-VCS Atari era as…

The R-Type franchise has been a big part of the school of horizontal shoot em up franchises that dominated both the arcades and consoles in the late 80s and early to mid 90s. While the series started out in the arcades, R-Type feels more like a console-first series to me. It has seen many iterations across almost every meaningful console and home computer, but the most memorable in the early years were the Super Famicom and SNES-only Super R-Type, which was the renamed home port of R-Type II, and the very faithful Amiga port. I keep wondering why I associate…

If you are not part of the STG community it is likely that you are not familiar with the Sonic Wings series. Its initial arcade release never gained much traction outside Japan. The home port on SNES was released under the name Aero Fighters and had a very limited print run in the US. It is now considered a holy grail in the collectors scene and depending on grade it can cost between 800 and 2,500 dollars. This leaves the PAL version as the only region where it was widely available and still affordable on eBay. The second and third…