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Whatever happened to the Sega R360?

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I found out in a feature for Time Extension.

Lewis Packwood 9 December 2022 Features

The fascinating world of video-game preservation: a ten-page feature for EDGE

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A look at one of the biggest and most complex articles I’ve ever written.

Lewis Packwood 10 October 2022 Features

Farewell, Sir Clive Sinclair, and thank you

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A tribute to the man who revolutionised British home computing.

Lewis Packwood 17 September 2021 Features

The trend for making new games for old consoles

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I interviewed the people behind it for The Guardian.

Lewis Packwood 15 September 2021 Features

Alwa’s Legacy review: one of the finest exploratory platformers out there

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This 16-bit-styled sequel triumphantly surpasses the original.

Matthew H. Mason 21 October 2020 Reviews

Ultracore review: a playable time capsule for the masochistic

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Live. Die. Repeat.

Matthew H. Mason 13 July 2020 Reviews

Read about the history of The Settlers in Retro Gamer

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My whopping eight-page feature on Blue Byte’s series is in issue 209.

Lewis Packwood 8 July 2020 Features

Read about the history of Destruction Derby in Retro Gamer

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I spoke to the developers behind the series for a feature in issue 208.

Lewis Packwood 20 June 2020 Features

The story behind the classic Amiga racing game Skidmarks

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Read my six-page feature on this classic game from Acid Software in Retro Gamer issue 205.

Lewis Packwood 30 March 2020 Features

Read about the history of Commandos in Retro Gamer

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I spoke to former developers at Pyro Studios for a huge feature in Retro Gamer issue 204.

Lewis Packwood 20 February 2020 Features

All hail the retro gaming podcasts

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I spoke to the folks behind some of the leading retro gaming podcasts for a feature in issue 203 of Retro Gamer.

Lewis Packwood 30 January 2020 Features

The history of UK video-game magazines

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Check out this huge feature in the 200th issue of Retro Gamer.

Lewis Packwood 31 October 2019 Features

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil review – a remaster worth replaying

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Everybody do the dinosaur.

Matthew H. Mason 16 August 2019 Reviews

Check out my article on Amiga Power in this month’s Retro Gamer

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The MIGHTY BEINGS of Amiga Power DISSEMINATE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION on how the magazine was made.

Lewis Packwood 13 June 2019 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

That time when Casio made a game console that printed stickers

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I wrote a feature for Retro Gamer about the Casio Loopy, an utterly fascinating Japan-only 1990s console that was aimed solely at girls.

Lewis Packwood 19 April 2019 Features

Downloading games from the radio and teletext in the 1980s

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And from TV programmes, too, not to mention a sort of proto-Internet run by the Post Office. The 80s were crazy times. I wrote about it all in a feature for Wireframe magazine.

Lewis Packwood 13 April 2019 Features

Turok Remastered review – a welcome return from way back when

The N64 game, despite its crude polygons, holds up surprisingly well in this Switch port from Nightdive Studios.

Matthew H. Mason 20 March 2019 Reviews

How do the 20 PlayStation Classic games measure up?

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Hmmm, interesting list.

Lewis Packwood 1 November 2018 Opinions

The games that should be on the PlayStation Classic

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What games would you feature on the newly announced PlayStation Classic? I’ve picked out 15 PS1 games that I’d revive in a heartbeat.

Lewis Packwood 19 September 2018 Features, Opinions

The bizarre story of the Casio Loopy console

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I wrote a feature for Eurogamer on the Casio Loopy – a console for girls with a built-in sticker printer.

Lewis Packwood 15 July 2018 Features

The BattleTech arcade machines that were years ahead of their time

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In the early 1990s, BattleTech Centers – later redubbed Virtual Worlds – featured fully enclosed mech cockpits that put pilots into 3D deathmatches against players across the world.

Lewis Packwood 23 March 2018 Features

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 IV

Symphony of the Night is not just hands-down the greatest Castlevania game of all time, but I also consider […]

Virtuanaut 23 September 2017 Features, Reviews

Review: Night Trap 25th Anniversary Edition (PS4)

I have a confession to make. I’ve never played Night Trap before! It sure seems like something I’d […]

Virtuanaut 16 September 2017 Reviews

Review: Night Trap 25th Anniversary Edition

I have a confession to make. I’ve never played Night Trap before! It sure seems like something I’d […]

Virtuanaut 16 September 2017 Reviews

Super Play is back and more beautiful than ever

Well this is a lovely thing. Bundled with the latest issue of Retro Gamer is a 52-page, one-off […]

Lewis Packwood 14 September 2017 Features

Review: Sonic Mania (PS4)

If you’re anything like me and haven’t touched a Sonic game since the Sega Genesis days, then Sonic […]

Virtuanaut 26 August 2017 Reviews

Review: Sonic Mania

If you’re anything like me and haven’t touched a Sonic game since the Sega Genesis days, then Sonic […]

Virtuanaut 26 August 2017 Reviews

Review: Monster Bash

Monster Bash was one of those early 90’s games by Apogee, former king of weird PC platformers and shoot-em-ups. I […]

Virtuanaut 26 July 2017 Reviews

You like Castlevania, don’t you? Part III

Super Castlevania IV finally brought Castlevania to the 16-bit world and did quite a fine job of it. Konami really went all out […]

Virtuanaut 22 July 2017 Features, Reviews

I forgot all about Skyblazer

At the end of the DF Retro video about the upcoming SNES mini, they discuss some of the […]

Lewis Packwood 4 July 2017 Opinions

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