When Nintendo’s Star Fox arrived in 1993 it heralded in a new age for Nintendo’s 16-bit console, the age of 3D. Powered by the Super FX chip, it delivered cutting edge graphics that made it stand proudly apart from other console games of the time. Here Jez San reveals how it all happened. In these […]
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Released: 2011 Genre: Adventure Publisher: Namco Bandai Developer: From Software The Background From Software had been trucking along for years before Demon’s Souls. A workhorse studio, it pumped out mediocre to average games across all genres, from the mecha Armored Core series to the first-person, rock-hard RPG King’s Field games. It was this series that […]
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Year Released: 1985 Original Price: £299 (with green-screen monitor), £399 (with colour monitor) Buy It Now For: £25+ Associated magazines: Amtix, Computing With The Amstrad, Amstrad Computer User, CPC Attack, Amstrad Action Why The Amstrad CPC 6128 Was Great: It may not have been as cool or as desirable as a Commodore 64, but the […]
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Software Creations may be a relatively small company, but it contained some big talent and produced some fantastic games during its life time. Ste Ruffy and the Pickford brothers hail from the studio and it’s been involved in a variety of amazing games, from Bubble Bobble to Solstice and Plok. Founder Richard Kay reveals how […]
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If you want to be a true hardcore collector then go for a complete Neo Geo collection. If you don’t want to take out a second mortgage on your home you could simply focus on the following ten amazing games. It will still cost a pretty penny if you go after the original versions mind. […]
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If you or the retro gamer in your life are looking for a bargain this Black Friday, look no further – for a limited time, you can get 50% off a Retro Gamer subscription at Magazines Direct. Retro Gamer is the longest-running and biggest magazine dedicated to classic videogames. Whether you love the ZX Spectrum, […]
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The latest issue of Retro Gamer is on shelves now, and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Super Monkey Ball, we’ve taken a special look back at the GameCube classic. As well as that, we have an interview with Sega’s Masao Shirosaki about the creation of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, the newest game in […]
2019One of the things I really love about the very early days of console magazines in the UK is the prominence given to import games. Rather than being confined to their own small section at the back of the review pages, they were given equal billing with domestic releases, which meant you’d get to see […]
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The Background In 1998, Chunsoft released Machi – a “sound novel” that followed many people who pass one another in Shibuya, Tokyo. Playing from various perspectives including those of a gangster, a politician, an actor and a conman, the various tales came together in one tale. Released for the Saturn, PlayStation and PSP, the game […]
2019Do you remember the Mad Max game that came out in 2015? It sold quite well and seemed to find an appreciative audience, despite the fact that critics at the time felt it to be fairly average. The divide came down to one thing – reviewers had played plenty of those Ubisoft-style open world games […]
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