From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
The fan-translation scene does its best work in the first week of January, when the year’s resolutions are still warm. At New Year 2017, the group Dynamic Designs completed a full translation of Xak:
Pixelglass’s top-down AGA blaster is frantic, strategic and astonishingly smooth on a stock Amiga 1200. We review the playable AlarCity — survival mode, dungeon prototype and all — and score it 8.0.
How REKO cardsets turned Klondike AGA into an art form, how Soliton borrowed those decks through a datatype, and why the whole chain can wobble under AmigaOS 4.
The MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar had been on sale for about three weeks when Adam Bell did the thing that technology tradition demanded. In November 2016, the Facebook iOS engineer got the Doom Touch Bar p
The Sonic LEGO Dimensions level pack arrived on 18 November 2016, and the Sonic community marked the occasion the way it marks everything: together, live, on a stream. That Friday, the Sonic Retro com
Every retro game collector knows the moment. You’re three shelves deep, the want-list never gets shorter, there’s a parcel on the way you don’t entirely remember ordering — and somebody, usually someb
On Monday 7 November 2016, the Sonic Hacking Contest flung open its doors for the fourteenth time, and the internet poured in. Fifty-four hacks and mods were waiting on the contest site, free for anyo
The NeoSD MVS flash cart made a promise no Neo Geo owner had heard at a sane price before: the entire arcade library — every King of Fighters, every Metal Slug, the giant late-era releases — on one ca
On 23 October 2016, the strangest thing happened at the Sonic Amateur Games Expo: a fan-made demo rebuilt Green Hill Zone as a wide-open 3D playground, and within days the whole internet was talking a
Fan remakes usually aim at preservation. The project announced in October 2016 — and reported by this site on October 23 of that year — aimed at transfiguration: The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening,