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.
In February 2016, the Plok comic Volume 3 arrived in shops and on e-readers, collecting the third run of one of the strangest second acts in games. Plok — the limb-throwing hero of a fondly remembered
Hyperion’s 2002 Quake II port asked Amiga owners for PowerPC muscle and a 3D card — and rewarded them with id Software’s shooter in full. This is the story of the port, the hardware it demanded, and the maximum-resolution question its players never stopped asking.
She wants The Oregon Trail on the Amiga — but the disk does not exist. The detective story of MECC’s missing port, the false leads that suggest otherwise, and how to roll the wagon today.
In February 2016, The Retro Hour podcast was a few weeks old and already doing something improbable: a brand-new British retro gaming show, recorded in Nottingham, was sitting in the iTunes technology
Blood II: The Chosen arrived on Halloween 1998 with everything a sequel could ask for: a beloved predecessor, a brand-new engine, and a hero with the best one-liners in the genre. This Blood II The Ch
Every console leaves ghosts behind, but the Nintendo 64 seems to breed them. The machine sat at an awkward junction in history: expensive cartridges in a CD world, a small install base that made publi
Since 1991, David Brunet has been writing down every Amiga game in existence — all 12,403 entries of them by January 2016, and over 15,000 today. Meet the one-man census of a platform, and the libraries it quietly holds together.
The original version of this article was published on 11 January 2016, the day after David Bowie died, and it pointed readers towards a single strange artefact: a video game in which Bowie does not me
The Dexter laserdisc replacement, which opened for pre-orders in January 2016 at $359, is a circuit board with a single impersonation to perform: be a laserdisc player so convincingly that a 1983 arca
In January 2016, word spread through the retro scene of fan-made modifications giving classic Nintendo 64 shooters something they had never officially had: modern-feeling analog control. The N64 analo