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The Making Of Barbarian
During the early Eighties, gamers were going crazy for one-on-one fighters with a karate or kung-fu-based theme. Wanting to shake the genre…
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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Atari: Game Over documentary – a short overview
Most gamers have heard the stories of Atari’s burial of it’s stock of ET The Extra-Terrestrial cartridges in the desert landfill of…
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All Fired Up, Never Shipped: Pyronaut, the Lost NES Adventure Hiding Inside Castlevania II
Every homebrew scene has its ghosts: the projects that appeared in a blaze of screenshots and demo footage, gathered a following, and then simply stopped.…
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Graeme Devine
Graeme Devine is one of the original bedroom coders. He briefly worked for Atari at the age of 16, formed Trilobyte, then…
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The RetroGamesCollector games room gets a rethink
My daughter enjoying the Games Room. 23 consoles on permanent set up means a lot of choice, but also a lot of…
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New Game From Maniac Mansion Developers
The brains behind many classic LucasArts adventures, Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, are back – and they’re bringing a project to Kickstarter.…
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Half-Life 2
Released: 2004 Genre: First-person shooter Publisher: Valve Developer: Valve The Background The difficult second album. Valve set to work just six short…
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£75,266 for the Sound of the SID: Matt Gray’s Reformation, the Last Ninja 2 Remakes That Tripled Their Goal
In November 2014, Matt Gray — the man who wrote the Last Ninja 2 soundtrack, one of the most loved pieces of…
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Worms Is 19 Years Old!
Nineteen years. That is how long it has been since a small team of pink invertebrates first crawled onto the Amiga and…
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The Making Of The Sims
If you’ve ever owned a PC then chances are you’ve heard of The Sims. Created by Will Wright, it placed you in…