# Forty Years and a Hundred Games In, Tony Barnes Made an Arcade Shooter on His Own

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#### Post date: [July 28, 2026, 4:13am UTC](https://forum.pocg.net/t/forty-years-and-a-hundred-games-in-tony-barnes-made-an-arcade-shooter-on-his-own/821/1 "2026-07-28T04:13:19Z")

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Originally published at: [Tony Barnes Releases VectaGuard, His First Solo Game in Three Decades | POCG](https://pocg.net/news/vectaguard-tony-barnes/)  
   
Tony Barnes has been making games for forty years and has more than a hundred shipped titles behind him, with credits at Electronic Arts, Crystal Dynamics, Rockstar Games and The Collective. Today he released VectaGuard, his first independently developed game in more than three decades, and the debut title from his own studio, RetroNinja Games.…