If you’re not yet sick of Flappy Bird, the averian adventures continue on with another outing on a classic console. Unlike the prior ports we’ve covered, the newest Flappy Bird recreation on retro gaming hardware programs the game on the fly within Super Mario World using nothing but Super Nintendo hardware.
We have four cases of 25 Shark Protectors to give away to four lucky winners. Send us a picture of your collection to retrogamer@imagine-publishing.co.uk stating what type of box you would prefer and we’ll choose our favourites. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: The closing date for entries is 21 April 2016. Please be aware that answers must […]
This time round we visit the games room of Richard Evans AKA Retro Rich (@Richard31337) who first got into gaming via the Sega Master System at a young age. He admits to being quite new to arcade collecting and got his interest sparked by a friend who had a cab and lots of arcade PCBs. […]
After coming off the catastrophe that was Sonic ’06, everyone was right to be suspect of Sonic Unleashed. To everybody’s surprise, there was half a good game there! The daytime stages proved to strike a chord with even the harshest of critics, and thus the affectionately named “Boost Trilogy” was born. Years later, petitions are […]
Once upon a time, there was a rather popular game called NBA Jam. And, as tends to happen with popular things, NBA Jam inspired an imitator or two – and so we come to Street Hoop. Visually, Data East’s sports game looks a million miles apart from Midway’s monster earner – there’s not a chance […]
It would be an uneventful year without the time honored tradition of the hacking contest. Despite the delays and complications the Sonic Hacking Contest got 2016’s back for another round of ROM hacks and more! For the time being, there are no entries being accepted as the website will be up later. You can get your […]
It’s that time of the month when another issue of Retro Gamer is about to hit the shelves, and by golly it’s a good one – just check out the video preview above! Of course, if you’re trying to surreptitiously find out what’s going on at work or something, you won’t want to blast that […]
Wrestling games have been seen as marmite for gamers for years, but love them or hate them, there are loads! This episode Paul, Phil, Chris and special guest Maffew Gregg of popular YouTube channel Botchamania sit down to discuss some of their favourite games.
It’s been 20 years to the day since Capcom released the original Resident Evil game for the PlayStation, under its Japanese name of Biohazard, and the company is celebrating with a series of retrospective developer interviews – the first of which you can see above. Producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi joined Capcom during the production of the […]
The Retro Gamer team is, as you might have guessed, staffed only by the most squeaky-clean, unimpeachable characters you would ever hope to meet. Or at least, that’s how it would appear. But friends, we harbour dark secrets. You see, we love stuff. That’s no surprise, if you look at our gaming collections, but we’re […]