Pac-Man Is 35!
One of gaming’s most popular characters of all time turns 35 today! The Retro Gamer team is celebrating the anniversary of the original arcade release of Pac-Man – Nick’s grabbed the Neo Geo Pocket Color version of the original, and even our managing director is in on the festivities: @RetroGamer_Mag @gamesyouloved And here is the […]
The Troubled Development of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric Explained
Tamaki, writer for Unseen64, has made a video that sheds light on what went wrong during the development of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. And if you assumed that Big Red Button had to put up with a lot of crap that made it unreasonable to expect them to put out a good game, you’d […]
Arcade Urban Legend ‘Polybius’ Set For Documentary Via Kickstarter
According to various sources online, an unusual arcade machine found itself in the depths of a North American town in the 1980s. Unlike other cabinets, Polybius was reported to have given gamers side effects from night terrors to sudden death. As farfetched as this may round, the urban legend lives on and it’s about to […]
Retro Gamer Issue 142 Is Out Today!
If you haven’t seen our glorious new issue yet, feast your eyes on Oliver Frey’s excellent cover art! Featuring all manner of ships, enemies and weapons from the history of shoot-’em-ups, it leads in to our bluffer’s guide to one of gaming’s oldest genres. So what else is in the issue? Well, we have in-depth […]
Working on an Amiga game called Crazy Money.
Originally the name of the game is called Crazy Money but it can be changed in the future. The concept of the game now is that you collect money to go through the next level. There will be colored doors that can only be opened with matching colored keys, monsters, obstacles to push, etc. The […]