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We’ve Got Space To Chat About Lunar Lander
Our current Retro Spotlight forum topic focuses on Lunar Lander, Atari’s devilishly difficult arcade game from the Seventies. Inspired by the space…
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Fresh Cartridge reporter. Covers launches, remasters and the modern retro scene as it happens. Owns more handhelds than handbags, has opinions about all of them, and filed this bio from a Game Boy she modded herself.
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One Giant Leap for the Commodore 64: Mars, the Mission Sim That Actually Reached the Red Planet
In August 2019, fifty years after Apollo 11, Psytronik Software announced a Commodore 64 game about the next giant leap — commanding…
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Hotel HDMI: The Philips CD-i Mod That Dragged a Punchline Console Into the Digital Age
Of every machine that might have headlined a hardware story in August 2019, the Philips CD-i was close to the last one anyone would have picked. Nintendo’s…
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Rope, Torchlight and a Hundred Cartridges: The Rescue Expedition, the Atari 8-Bit Homebrew Hit That Went Digging for Aztec Gold
Ask a room of retro fans to picture Atari homebrew and most will conjure a chunky 2600 cartridge, a one-button joystick and a programmer coaxing miracles…
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Rygar AGA: The Arcade Port the Amiga Waited 33 Years For
At a glance The original: Rygar — Tecmo’s 1986 arcade hit (Japan: Argus no Senshi), designed by Hideo Yoshizawa The gap: Ported…
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Problem? Donkey Trolls: The Trollface Commodore 64 Platformer That Stayed a Preview
In August 2019, three members of the Swiss C64 group Atlantis took the internet’s most famous grin, bolted it onto Donkey Kong’s…
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The Knight, the Cup and the Caps Lock: Oubliette, the Apple II Dungeon Written Entirely in BASIC
A level of the 2019 original: chequered stone, white corridors, and the prize — the cup in the top-right chamber — waiting…
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Jump Into The Forum For A Chat About Donkey Kong
This week’s Retro Spotlight on the forum is Nintendo’s arcade classic Donkey Kong, which is a fascinating game for all kinds of…
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Twelve Hours as a Trash Panda: Raccoon City — Toronto Raccoon Simulator Is the Apple II’s Most Canadian Game
The game on real iron: an Apple IIe running the Raccoon City title screen at the author’s own display, flanked by boxed…
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Discuss Missile Command’s Explosive Impact On Our Forum
Many videogames have had plots involving a character having dreams of apocalyptic terrors, but few have been directly inspired by them. Yet…