The Video Games Market is back for its 3rd year and this time bigger and better! Paul sits down with RetroCollect’s very own Adam Buchanan to discuss the stalls, what to expect and more. Give the interview a listen and make sure you get along!
In 1988 Konami stormed the arcades with their highly anticipated follow up to Gradius. Despite being a fairly prominent release, this fantastic horizontal shooter only made its way onto the Nintendo Famicom, Sharp X68000 and PC Engine CD, all of which remaining as Japanese exclusives. Sega Mega Drive owners, however, may soon be sampling this […]
Revolution Software has reached its 25th anniversary, and has gone all out in announcing a special box set to commemorate the occasion. Revolution: The 25th Anniversary Collection contains all of the company’s original games to date, as well as Broken Sword and Beneath A Steel Sky comics, an audio CD, a Broken Sword USB stick […]
One of the perils of digital storefronts is that when a game’s gone- such as when a license gets pulled, or the licenseholder goes out of businses- it’s gone forever. That might’ve been the fate of the Umihara Kawase trilogy of physics-based platformers on Steam, but they’re getting a second chance on the 28th […]
Goodness, has it really been a year since the last time we visited the world of Sonic the Comic? Well, as time marches on, so does the progress in our quest, as we cover the penultimate game adaptation in the Fleetway series – Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (Or Sonic 3D: Blast, as the Yanks might […]
In the Sonic Internet community, there have been few stories that have captured the imagination like the tale of Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s music. With a feel unique from the previous two entries in the series, the discussion of just who composed what have filled untold pages of conversation for well over a decade. The […]
In the Sonic Internet community, there have been few stories that have captured the imagination like the tale of Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s music. With a feel unique from the previous two entries in the series, the discussion of just who composed what have filled untold pages of conversation for well over a decade. The […]
As we near 25 years of Sonic the Hedgehog, I wanted to kick off a video series looking back at an aspect of the franchise that has always been a favorite of mine – food promotions! From McDonald’s to Topps to Carl’s Jr and beyond, SEGA has teamed their flagship franchise with some of the […]
Whats wrong with a normal Speccy anyway? As anyone who ever owned a ZX Spectrum will testify, loading from tape could sometimes be a frustrating affair, what with misaligned heads, dropouts and all manner of other things causing the dreaded ‘R Tape loading error, 0:1‘. Loading times were another bugbear – being able to make […]
Not every 3D-shooter had the same success as the critically-acclaimed Quake series. Monolith hastily cranked out a sequel to the super-violent, cult-classic Blood, a Duke Nukem 3D-like shooter with bucket-loads of giblets, horror references and dark humour. It was a challenging game, featuring maze-like levels ranging from raided urban areas to barren winter wastelands, all […]