It’s pretty clear that the development of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric was troubled to say the least, and nothing shows this quite as well as seeing what the game used to look like. While we don’t know how much work was done on this version of the game, it’s pretty clear that the game was originally […]
Play Blackpool is this upcoming weekend: one of the largest Retro Gaming events takes over the Norbreck Castle Exhibition Centre in Blackpool this Bank Holiday, in one of the top days in the Retro Gaming Calendar. In it’s second year back at the Norbreck, this event was stellar last year, with some great games to play, […]
When I talk to younger friends about gaming, one of the things they tend to struggle with is the concept that players could be drawn into an experience which suggested more than it showed, due to the use of text-based or menu-driven interfaces with fairly minimal visuals. However, anyone that has logged enough time in […]
It was over two and a half years ago when Retro Game Network brought the story about video game giant GameStop getting back into the retro video game business. Recently, this has been back into the news, with select brick […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If for whatever reason you’ve ran out of Super Nintendo titles to be battling through, then worry no more. Piko Interactive recently revealed their plans for the rest of the year, something which included the announcement of an all new helicopter based shooter for the 16-bit system utilising the impressive Mode 7 graphics mode.
In 1987 Irem’s classic R-Type burst into the arcades and had many of us feeding the system, all whilst we scrolled through the universe to defeat the Evil Bydo Empire. Later ported to our home systems, R-Type spawned many sequels which soon turned it into one of Irem’s most popular series. But how does the […]
What do you get when you mix together a top-down shooter with limited characters, plenty of baddies and thirty challenging levels? You get Gain Ground, an action-strategy game released for the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis for all you Yanks out there), released in 1988. It’s a console port of the arcade version of the […]
Imagine Publishing has just launched a brand new app that lets you score anything, including classic videogames! Just A Score is an exciting new social app that allows you to apply a score to anything you like, whether it’s a person, a famous event, a feeling or even a classic videogame. Simply put in the […]
For our 30th collection we are sticking with the Retro Collective Europe theme, this time RCE admin Ryan Morrow shows us his amazing retro wares and gives us the lowdown on his collecting in our Q and A interview. The Collection Click on images to enlarge Q and A with Ryan Morrow When did you […]
It’s that time of the month again – a new issue of Retro Gamer is hitting the shelves, this time featuring the ill-fated Power Glove as its cover star. The infamously bad motion control peripheral leads our massive 16 page feature on the greatest disasters in gaming history, in which we examine failed ventures such […]