The story behind the classic Amiga racing game Skidmarks

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

Read about the history of Commandos in Retro Gamer

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

All hail the retro gaming podcasts

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

The history of UK video-game magazines

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

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

Everybody do the dinosaur.

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

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

The NES Encyclopedia is a thing of beauty

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

That time when Casio made a game console that printed stickers

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

Downloading games from the radio and teletext in the 1980s

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.

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.

How do the 20 PlayStation Classic games measure up?

Hmmm, interesting list.

The games that should be on the PlayStation Classic

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.

The bizarre story of the Casio Loopy console

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

The BattleTech arcade machines that were years ahead of their time

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.

Retro Review: Rambo (NES)

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