Microsoft’s E3 conference yesterday evening was interesting for a number of reasons – the new and terrifyingly powerful Xbox One X was unveiled, we saw new games and for some reason, they even wheeled out a car. But for retro gaming fans, the biggest news was that Microsoft will be expanding the Xbox One’s backwards […]
Creating Caverns I wrote about creating rooms back in part 3 of this series and how I began to store the room data in memory. But of course, rooms in the game have to fit together to form a world in which the character will explore on their journey. With my game I thought it […]
Over the last decade a plethora of classic consoles and computers have been gifted aftermarket solutions to playing games without the need of original game cartridges or discs. From flash cards to compact disc emulators, there are so few systems out there still in need of a future-proof solution. This has left the talented developers […]
The upcoming film by Andy Remic – Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict now has an amazing looking cover, produced by none other than the renowned artist Oliver Frey, famous amongst gamers of course for his Crash and Zzap! 64 magazine artwork. We think it looks amazing and really captures the look and feel of those […]
If you’re a fan of the classic Tomb Raider trilogy, you may well have been aware of Tomb Raider: Live In Concert, a live orchestral performance of Nathan McCree’s music from the first three games in the series which took place in December 2016. Whether you were one of the appreciative fans in the audience that […]
After the success of Mega Man Legacy Collection and The Disney Afternoon Collection, Capcom has announced its latest retro compilation: Mega Man Legacy Collection 2. This release is comprised of four games, spanning the remainder of the Mega Man “classic series” that wasn’t on the NES – Mega Man 7 (SNES, 1995), Mega Man 8 […]
Seminal PC shooter Quake famously featured a soundtrack composed by rock band Nine Inch Nails, and the game was littered with nice little nods to the fact – who can forget the ammo crates emblazoned with the familiar NIN logo? The soundtrack comprised 10 original tunes, which according to the NIN Wiki weren’t actually given […]
Titan A.E. is a movie I hold very dear to my heart, and not least because it and the subsequent collapse of Fox Animation Studios was the subject of my disseration at college. For a short period in 2001 Titan A.E. was my life, and I was understandably dissappointed when the video game was cancelled. […]
Woah hey wait what? E3 is only a week away? Dang man, that’s pretty cool. For those of you who will be in the area for the biggest video game event on the planet (or are still going to be around post a certain other convention from the day prior…) join us for food, drinks, […]
We haven’t done any research to confirm this, but we’d suspect that most gamers outside of Japan don’t know that Penguin Land was a trilogy – and that’s if they’re even aware of the comparatively widely-known Master System version in the first place. That’s something that can easily be forgiven, though. The first game came out on […]