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One Life to Live: The Making of Treasure Island Dizzy
The original cover art. Photo: Codemasters / Wikimedia Ask a British player of a certain age about Treasure Island Dizzy and you…
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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Numan Athletics
When I was but a wee nipper, I remember seeing a fascinating game on Gamesmaster – it had people shoving trains around…
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The Atari 2600’s Cassette Brain: The Starpath Supercharger Revisited
No game inside: the Supercharger is memory, a cable, and an idea forty years ahead of its media budget. Photo: Wikimedia Commons…
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Complete at Last: How Sonic 3 Complete Stitched Sega’s Split Masterpiece Back Together
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was never really a finished game, and Sega never really pretended otherwise for long. What reached shops in February 1994 was the front…
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The Ultimate Guide to Castlevania Books Worth Owning
The anchor of any Castlevania shelf: Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Castlevania. Photo: Nintendo Life Some series you play. Castlevania you shelve. Konami’s…
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The Glove Fits Every Machine: Powerglove, the 16K C64 Shooter That Launched on Modern PCs the Same Day
Sixteen kilobytes. That’s all Powerglove had to live in — and in September 2014 it used them to do something no C64…
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Dig, Doug, Dig: Remembering Lode Runner Creator Douglas E. Smith (1960–2014)
The credit that mattered: the Apple II title screen, “By Doug Smith,” 1983 — an author’s name up front, in an era…
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BBC Micro
Year Released: 1981 Original Price: £235 Buy It Now For: £20 Associated magazines: None Why The BBC Micro Was Great: While it…
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Retro Gamer Issue 133 Is Out Today!
The time is upon us once more – a new issue of Retro Gamer has fought its way into shops. Our cover…
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Resident Evil 4
Released: 2005 Genre: Action Adventure Publisher: Capcom Developer: Capcom Production Studio 4 The Background It was to be the final Resident Evil.…