This review is written by Gary. A game that will always have a special place in my heart is Superfrog. I came across this game when my parents bought me the ‘Amiga’ monthly magazine and it was on the demo disc. At the time in our house we had the Amiga 600 and the Sega […]
In the early nineties there was a huge Zombie outbreak. The dead overran streets and dwellings and they were all seeking one thing: me. Well this is what it felt like as I sat for hours on end playing Zombies on my Super Nintendo. Known as Zombies Ate My Neighbours in NTSC regions LucasArts published […]
In 1991 Japanese developers Culture Brain released their latest entry in the Hiryuu no Ken series on the Famicom, better known as Flying Warriors in North America. Although Hiryuu no Ken Special: Fighting Wars was scheduled to be released on the Nintendo NES under the new name Fighting Simulator World Champ, it sadly ended up […]
Back in 1995 Psygnosis’ futuristic racer WipEout represented a generational leap in graphics and music and was the game that heralded the start of PlayStation’s domination of the 32-bit era. The realistic graphical style and techno soundtrack, fused with the ultra-cool concept of anti-gravity racing, was a perfect showcase for what the new PlayStation hardware […]
So you all probably know Naoto Ohshima for his great character design work on the original Sonic the Hedgehog, particularly that of the main star. I’m sure you all also know him for directing what could only be described as perfection: Blinx the Time Sweeper. But what has he been up to lately? Well, apparently he did […]
One of gaming’s most popular characters of all time turns 35 today! The Retro Gamer team is celebrating the anniversary of the original arcade release of Pac-Man – Nick’s grabbed the Neo Geo Pocket Color version of the original, and even our managing director is in on the festivities: @RetroGamer_Mag @gamesyouloved And here is the […]
Tamaki, writer for Unseen64, has made a video that sheds light on what went wrong during the development of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. And if you assumed that Big Red Button had to put up with a lot of crap that made it unreasonable to expect them to put out a good game, you’d […]
According to various sources online, an unusual arcade machine found itself in the depths of a North American town in the 1980s. Unlike other cabinets, Polybius was reported to have given gamers side effects from night terrors to sudden death. As farfetched as this may round, the urban legend lives on and it’s about to […]
If you haven’t seen our glorious new issue yet, feast your eyes on Oliver Frey’s excellent cover art! Featuring all manner of ships, enemies and weapons from the history of shoot-’em-ups, it leads in to our bluffer’s guide to one of gaming’s oldest genres. So what else is in the issue? Well, we have in-depth […]
As many of us know, some of those games of the 8-bit era take a very large toll on the most common implement used to control them: the joystick. Yes, some of them just aren’t made to last (Mr Cheetah Annihilator, with your poorly designed plastic shaft, I am looking at you!), but even the […]