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“Chicken! Fight Like a Robot”: The Making of Berzerk
The original flyer, selling the taunts as hard as the game. Photo: Stern Electronics / Wikimedia Before Pac-Man, before the golden age…
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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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Game & Watch
Year Released: 1980 Original Price: $30 Buy It Now For: £5+ (depending on model) Why The Game & Watch was great: The…
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Dashes, Dots and a Joystick: The Unreleased Atari 2600 Prototype That Taught Amateur Radio
In October 2014, word spread of a newly discovered unreleased Atari 2600 prototype connected, somehow, to music for amateur radio operators. The…
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Fifty Frames Per Second: The Making of Uridium
The Manta at full chat over a super-dreadnought: Uridium’s cover promised speed, and for once the game outran the promise. Photo: Hewson…
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Retro Gamer Issue 134 Is Out Today!
Readers in the UK should be able to find Retro Gamer’s brand new issue starting today, so you might all be wanting…
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RetroCollect Video Game Database: Nintendo Wii Update
With only a few upcoming releases left, it is finally time to welcome the Nintendo Wii into the RetroCollect Video Game Database.…
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Raffaele Cecco
Raffaele Cecco first came to everyone’s attention thanks to the release of Cop-Out for the ZX Spectrum. He soon become widely regarded…
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A Ticket on the Number Nine: The Making of Grim Fandango
The original 1998 box art. Photo: LucasArts / Wikimedia On October 30, 1998, LucasArts released the most beautiful adventure game it would…
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How to play Super Nintendo games on your iOS 8 device
How to play Super Nintendo games on your iOS 8 device By Jim Gresham, Oct 6, 2014 63 Comments Although there is…
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Written in the Stars, Coded in 6502: Electronic Sweet-N-Fun Fortune Teller, the NES Love Horoscope That Rewrote the Past
Every era gets the fortune-telling toy it deserves. One generation shook a Magic 8-Ball and accepted whatever floated up through the blue murk. Another fed…