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Double Dragon, But With Dragons: The Making of Golden Axe
The original arcade flyer. Photo: Sega / Wikimedia Quick, which came first: Final Fight or Golden Axe? Both swaggered into arcades in…
Author: June Park
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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Ape Escape
As a PlayStation-owning teenager, I resented Ape Escape a little bit. Not because it was a bad game, mind you – it…
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Origin Systems
Created in the mid-Seventies by Richard Garriott, Origin Systems was one of the most important PC developers around. Wing Commander, Crusader and…
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Ten Weeks in Hell: The 3DO Doom Source Code Tells the Worst Port’s Best Story
Ask a room of retro players to name the worst port of Doom and the answer usually arrives before the question has finished: the 3DO version. Tiny windowed…
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The Making Of Medal Of Honor
War games are an annual event these days, but in the very early Nineties it was a very different situation. Medal Of…
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Make This Amazing Wind Waker Lego Set Real
The Retro Gamer team loves cool gaming merchandise. Darran has a statue of Link and Epona on his desk; Nick has Metal…
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Atari Jaguar
Year Released: 1993 Original Price: $249.99 (USA), £199.99 (UK), Yen 24,800 (Japan) Buy It Now For: £25+ Associated magazines: Jagwired (fanzine), EGM,…
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Leaderboard
I don’t care much for golf. Watching it isn’t a great deal of fun, and I am so uncoordinated that attempting to…
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Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works – review
When the Kickstarter campaign for Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works by Darren Wall was announced it proclaimed to be the ‘definitive volume on…
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Commodore 64: A Visual Commpendium by Bitmap Books – review
It’s been a tremendous year for newly published retro books, especially the sort you are proud to have on your coffee table…