Back in April this year we asked the listeners to help us put together the Maximum Power Up Top 50 games. Each of our hosts put forward their favourite games to get the list started and then with all the other listener votes the list stood at over 450 games!
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 […]