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New games for the NES

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I spoke to the man behind Lowtek Games.

Lewis Packwood 16 November 2021 Features

Read about the making of Bart Vs The Space Mutants

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I spoke to the creator of the original Simpsons game for Retro Gamer.

Lewis Packwood 8 September 2021 Features

Why the NES sucked cartridges into its belly

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Rather than accepting them into its back, like the Famicom did.

Lewis Packwood 28 February 2020 Features

The NES Encyclopedia is a thing of beauty

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Ex-Official Nintendo Magazine editor Chris Scullion has done an amazing job cataloguing every NES game.

Lewis Packwood 1 May 2019 Opinions

Two fascinating gaming books are on the way

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The NES Encyclopaedia and Japansoft: An Oral History are both set for release next year.

Lewis Packwood 4 November 2018 News

Retro Review: Rambo (NES)

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A bizarre action-adventure title from the ancient past, with a surprisingly small amount of shooting and an even more surprising amount of lite-RPG elements

Virtuanaut 4 November 2017 Reviews

You like Castlevania, don’t you? Part II

We return to the wild world of Castlevania with The Castlevania Adventure and its sequel Belmont’s Revenge, both for the […]

Virtuanaut 24 June 2017 Reviews

You like Castlevania, don’t you?

Welcome to You like Castlevania, don’t you?, my sort-of-answer-to The Year of Zelda. I’ll be playing every game in […]

Virtuanaut 1 June 2017 Reviews

That strange old Metal Gear novel

I pitched the idea of an article about the Worlds of Power books to Kotaku UK a while […]

Lewis Packwood 22 July 2015 Pulp

Why I’m looking forward to Rare Replay

My article on the Xbox One Rare Replay collection just went up on Kotaku UK. And there’s one […]

Lewis Packwood 25 June 2015 Pulp

From The Armchair: Leaving Things Unfinished

What ho, chums! After struggling to enjoy Assassin’s Creed III, I finally decided to permanently shelve the game […]

Lewis Packwood 6 January 2015 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Old Skool Gaming

What ho, chums. Last week I found myself in the unusual position of having nothing to play on […]

Lewis Packwood 7 May 2014 From The Armchair, Opinions

The great videogame retCON: how the internet has Americanised our gaming history

Or Americanized…. I never owned a Nintendo Entertainment System and in fact only knew a handful of people […]

___ 10 April 2014 Opinions

The Tyranny of Loading Times

One of the most painful memories of my youth was staring in concern as my Spectrum’s tape player […]

Lewis Packwood 2 April 2012 Opinions
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