In the later 90s a whole host of first person shooters began making their way onto home consoles alongside their PC counterparts. As great as this was, there was a real lack of consistency when it came to each game’s control scheme, often leaving gamers struggling to get to grips with the 3D worlds in […]
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Long-Lost Shoot-‘Em-Up Wing Force Discovered
Back in the early Nineties, Atlus had grown from a publisher of console games into an ambitious outfit with designs on the arcade market. While the company would spend most of the decade in the coin-op game, its own developments were quickly sidelined in favour of publishing games from external developers, most notably Cave. However, […]
Unreleased Arcade Shmup ‘Wing Force’ Located & MAME ROM Preserved
Atlus are well known for their prolific output in the RPG genre, but their roots spread out into various other areas of gaming history. Believe it or not but the Japanese game developers were gearing up the release of an all new vertical shooter for the arcades known as Wing Force in 1993, however, it’s […]
Pocket Tennis Color
If you want to blame anything, blame Neo Turf Masters – I picked up the Neo Geo Humble Bundle just before Christmas, and returning to the arcade game gave me cravings for the pocket one I also loved. That caused me to bring my entire Neo Geo Pocket collection back to Bournemouth, and now I’m revisiting […]
RAGE (Really Amateur Games Expo) Returns on January 17th, For Real This Time!
RAGE (Really Amateur Games Expo), which was originally going to return last month on December 18th, is going to return for real this time on January 17th! If you don’t know what RAGE is, basically it’s a sort of game jam where you have five days to make the worst but also funniest fan game […]
Flashback: Retro Gamer Readers’ Top 100 Games (Circa 2004)
If you’ve been with us since the very beginning, you’ll remember issue 8, pictured above – and you might well remember that we did a two-part feature on the top 100 games of all time beginning in that issue and concluding in issue 9. Of course, if you haven’t been with us all that long (and […]
Super Fighter Team’s Brand New Mega Drive Releases ‘Magic Girl’ and ‘Cascade’ Out Now On Cartridge
Super Fighter Team who previously brought us the likes of Beggar Prince and Legend of Wukong are back with two more titles for the Mega Drive. Although announced over the last few years, both Magic Girl and Cascade are finally available to buy for Sega’s 16-bit juggernaut.
Maximum Power Up Podcast – Episode 17: Mix Tape Vol. 1
Videogame music has progressed a lot over the years and there have been many memorable pieces that people love. In this episode Paul and Phil choose and discuss some of their favourite pieces of music as well as this some listener suggestions have been picked which we want to say thank you for.