Fans of Larva Labs little 8-bit retro RPG game Gurk have some good news. After awhile of wanting and waiting in hope that a sequel of some ind would come out, Larva Labs quietly released Gurk II onto the Android Market. Chalk full of 8-bit retro RPG goodness, this is what all you Gurk fans have been waiting for.
Tag: retro
Gamevil debuts Kami Retro for the Android platform at Google I/O. It’s about time it came to Android.
Gamevil just announced that they were setting up their booth over at Google I/O 2011 which will be featuring their other recent hit game for iOS called Kami Retro. This time, however, it won’t be seen on iOS but instead running on Android! This would mean it is on the way for us to play soon!
Retro shooter PewPew is one of the most downloaded games on Android, so we were delighted to be able to speak to developer Jean-François Geyelin about his gaming influences, recently-released sequel PewPew 2 and coding games for graphics calculators… yes, calculators.
Developed by Coke and Code, Legends of Yore is a casual rogue-like RPG that is currently under development. However, even though it is still in early development, the alpha/beta version of it is available on the Android Market for you to play. Retro game fans will really like the old school graphics that come along with it.
Pokemon Tower Defense pulled off the Android Market. Faster then we thought it would but has a new home.
About two weeks ago we posted about an awesome little tower defense game with a bunch of RPG elements mixed into it themed around Pokemon. The game, called Pokemon Tower Defense, featured awesome retro-pixel art graphics, the original 150 Pokemon mixed together with tower defense gameplay and RPG leveling.
Back in the mid-90s there was a game called Z. Now called Z: The Game, it is being remade for more modern times and is slated to be released on a multitude of platforms include Android. The great thing about Z is that most of the units in the game, which are robots, all seem to have their own unique (and entertaining) personalities.
Many many people have went crazy over the retro shooter called PewPew since it’s release. Unfortunately for everyone who is addicted to Pew Pew, developer Jean-François Geyelin has decided to release a sequel wonderfully named PewPew 2. There are plenty of enemies to blow up in this crazy multi-directional retro game.
Meganoid is a retro-styled platform game with all sorts of goodies included. Brought to us by the ever awesome crew at OrangePixel who tend to make some of the best retro-style games for Android. Your goal is to get through each stage and collect the gems, except half of them are hidden (at least it feels that way)!
Want to play a racing game on your Android phone but feel like getting back to your old school arcade roots? I’m not talking about some black and weird off-white color hand held system but the arcade units you used to sit down in with a steering wheel that usually didn’t fully work and a shifting knob that just flopped around half the time.
Awhile back there was a game called KamiCrazy which some of you who owned (or still do own) an iPhone may remember. It was pretty popular when it came out and now developers Paw Print Games is set to release a retro version of KamiCrazy which is named, you guessed it… KamiCrazy Retro. This game features some great 3D-ish retro styled graphics.