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Tag: Retro Gaming
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
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 it one … More
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 have played, … More
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 issue of … More
Review: Sonic Mania (PS4)
If you’re anything like me and haven’t touched a Sonic game since the Sega Genesis days, then Sonic Mania and its … More
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 think this … More
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 with this … More
I forgot all about Skyblazer
At the end of the DF Retro video about the upcoming SNES mini, they discuss some of the games that … More
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 Game Boy. The … More
Review: Blood 2 – The Chosen
For some reason I never got around to Blood 2 back in the day, or any day since. Perhaps its bad … More