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 November 2015, the Amiga’s most prolific porter announced he was “taking a break from Amiga coding and selling my gear.” With that forum post, NovaCoder’s Amiga ports — the most remarkable one-man
Retro Gamer issue 149 went on sale on 26 November 2015, three weeks before The Force Awakens, with Star Wars all over it — and the original post on this site was the magazine’s own “first look inside”
Every generation of players has a private list of the games we just can’t beat — not games we abandoned, but games we respect, the walls we ran at for a summer and never climbed. The discussion that o
Coded by a schoolboy in 1993, lost for 22 years, released in 2015: Blaze is the closest the A500 ever came to Sonic. Our review of the two-level build that came back from the dead.
Long before every console had a glossy official history, The Atari Book did the job in the format British newsagents did best: the bookazine. First published by Imagine Publishing in 2012 — Atari’s fo
Before the swearing, before the hangover, before the squirrel became gaming’s most unlikely adult star, there was Twelve Tales: Conker 64 — a gentle, colourful Nintendo 64 platformer for all the famil
Every famous cancelled game eventually becomes a legend, but Sonic Xtreme went further than most: it became an excavation site. In October 2015 the dig produced its richest haul yet, when a playable P
Of all the cruelties in Sega’s catalogue, few run deeper than this one: one of the greatest RPGs of the 16-bit era received a loving, ground-up remake — and the remake was never released outside Japan
On 22 October 2015, one of the most beloved names in PC gaming came back from the dead. Descent: Underground, a prequel to the 1995 six-degrees-of-freedom classic, launched into Steam Early Access to
The DuckTales NES debate has been running since 1989, and in October 2015 Retro Gamer gave it a format: Vs Mode, a video series in which the magazine’s staff picked a contentious retro game and argued