Analogue Interactive are well known for their custom luxury wood based Neo Geo MVS consoles, but it would appear they’ve yet again outdone themselves. Although their latest creation is out of our price-range, the all-in-one Analogue NEO is set to revolutionise arcade gaming at home once more.
The Nintendo NES is no stranger when it comes to brand new homebrew games. Having seen a whole host of new releases hit the console in the last few years, you won’t be that surprised to learn that another adventure is fast approaching the 8-bit system – Pyronaut.
Graeme Devine is one of the original bedroom coders. He briefly worked for Atari at the age of 16, formed Trilobyte, then rode the CD-ROM wave with The 7th Guest. He’s worked for id Software, been the writer for Halo Wars and even found time to port his classic games to iOS. Here he tells […]
For the majority of retro gamers there’s one thing that has the power to completely stop our collection from growing. Sure, money may be an issue, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still look in charity shops for a lucky find. No, the real nemesis to a collector is storage. Old games are big, often […]
My daughter enjoying the Games Room. 23 consoles on permanent set up means a lot of choice, but also a lot of cables… First World gamer problems I’ve decided it’s time I rethought how I go about using my consoles. Mainly because I am finding very little time to actually play on them these days, […]
The brains behind many classic LucasArts adventures, Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, are back – and they’re bringing a project to Kickstarter. The new project Thimbleweed Park is a retro-styled point-and-click adventure, and is backed up by a crowdfunding campaign which includes humorous tiers such as the $25 guilt absolution special for players who pirated […]
Released: 2004 Genre: First-person shooter Publisher: Valve Developer: Valve The Background The difficult second album. Valve set to work just six short months on a sequel to, what is commonly referred to as, the best PC game of all time, Half‑Life – a first-person shooter that took the rudimentary template of Id Software’s Doom and […]
If you’re a fan of C64 music – and thanks to the fantastic SID chip, many of you are – you might want to have a look at the Kickstarter for Reformation. Headed up by The Last Ninja 2 musician Matt Gray, the project is offering backers a CD of C64 tunes remade with modern […]
For the last few years, one LittleBigPlanet sculptor has been recreating one of his favourite games in the platforming title’s sandbox. While many of us have tried our hand at making custom levels in the MediaMolecule release, this talented gamer has instead remade all of Final Fantasy VII’s 3 disc adventure into many different playable […]
It’s safe to say that it’s been a rather long time since a true traditional 2D point ‘n’ click adventure hit our home computers. Being one of the most popular genres of the late 80s and early 90s, classics such as Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, and Day of the Tentacle all proved that storytelling and […]