Puzzle-gaming
Retro Gamer
FORMULA 1 97
PLATFORM: PLAYSTATION » RELEASED: 1997 » CHEAT TYPE: SECRET STAGE » CHEAT COMPLEXITY: VERY HIGH
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
ALIEN SYNDROME
REMEMBER THE BACK OF THE ARCADE, WHERE THE NOT-SO-FLASHY COIN-OPS LURKED IN THE DARKNESS, WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED? BACK IN 1987, THIS IS WHERE YOU'D LIKELY HEAR A BLOODCURDLING FEMALE SCREAM THAT COULD BELONG TO ONLY ONE GAME...
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF EARTHWORM JIM 2
THERE AREN'T THAT MANY GAMES THAT CAN CALL THEMSELVES \"ONE OF THE CRAZIEST ADVENTURES OF ALL TIME\". EARTHWORM JIM 2 IS DEFINITELY ONE OF THE TOP THREE CANDIDATES
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
ENIGMATIC EXCAVATIONS
GAMES ARE OFTEN CANCELLED, AND THIS WAS ESPECIALLY TRUE IN THOSE TURBULENT EARLY YEARS OF THE UK VIDEOGAMES INDUSTRY. MOST DEVELOPERS WOULD EXPERIENCE A FEW, BUT ENIGMA VARIATIONS AND THE OWNERS' SUBSEQUENT COMPANIES HAD MORE THAN THEIR FAIR SHARE. IT'S TIME TO DISCOVER WHY
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
It's-a me, Pauline!
My daughter turned 16 this year, which means I've officially entered the stage of parenthood where anything I say is answered with eye-rolling. It also means I've been thinking a lot about when she was small - specifically the time she inadvertently sent me on one of the strangest, most meaningful missions of my life.
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
GOAL SMASHED
THE VECTREX MINI CRUSHES ITS KICKSTARTER TARGET
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
Sky Jinks
If you've been reading the magazine for any length of time, you'll know me to be something of a score chaser.
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
THE EVOLUTION OF METROID PRIME
A FLAWLESS REIMAGINING OF NINTENDO'S 2D SERIES IN 3D, METROID PRIME WAS MET WITH UNANIMOUS ACCLAIM AND RECEIVED TWO POPULAR SEQUELS. PRIME TRILOGY CREATIVES JASON BEHR, KYNAN PEARSON AND VINCE JOLY EXPLAIN HOW THE SERIES EVOLVED
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
DOMARK
TWO MARKETING EXECUTIVES WITH ZERO EXPERIENCE IN THE GAMES INDUSTRY, DOMARK WENT ON TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT UK SOFTWARE HOUSES OF THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES. RETRO GAMER LOOKS BACK AT ITS MOST SIGNIFICANT GAMES WITH COFOUNDER DOMINIC WHEATLEY
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
AMIGA CD32 ISSUE 1
THE CD ERA PROMISED MUCH, BUT WHILE DEVELOPERS TOOK A WHILE TO MAKE GOOD USE OF THE FORMAT, COVERDISCS NAILED IT FROM THE START. FILLED WITH A BEWILDERING MIX OF DEMOS, GAMES AND MORE BESIDES, GAMERS HAD NEVER SEEN SO MUCH BOUNTY IN ONE PLACE
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
WIZBALL
MARTIN GALWAY MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF IN THE EIGHTIES AS ONE OF THE FINEST COMPOSERS OF COMMODORE 64 SID MUSIC. HERE, HE AND JON HARE RECOLLECT THE HIGHLY CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WIZBALL'S BLISTERING SCORE WAS COMPOSED
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
QUACKSHOT STARRING Donald Duck
THERE ONCE WAS A TIME, WHEN GAMES BASED ON FAMOUS DISNEY PROPERTIES WERE ALMOST GUARANTEED HITS - THAT ESPECIALLY GOES FOR GAMES MADE BY SEGA UNDER THE DIRECTION OF EMIKO YAMAMOTO. QUACKSHOT STARRING DONALD DUCK WAS MAYBE HER MOST AMBITIOUS WORK FOR THE 16-BIT CONSOLE
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
THE LATEST NEWS FROM JULY 2009
Mixed martial arts enthusiasts got a game for the ages from THQ and Yuke's, as UFC Undisputed 2009 earned 90% from Play and 9/10 from X360, on top of 9/10 from Official PlayStation Magazine the previous month.
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
Commodore International
Commodore CEO Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson is leading the brand's revival at commodore.net
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
Pac-Man VCS rulez!
will have said this a million times before, but it is worth repeating - Pac-Man is the greatest videogame of all time.
2 min |
Issue 280
Retro Gamer
SPECIAL SPECTRUM
RETRO GAMES LIMITED UNVEILS A LIMITED BUNDLE
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Issue 280
Retro Gamer
REBECCA HEINEMAN: AN ENDURING LEGACY
Veterans pay tribute to the gaming legend that cofounded Interplay
4 min |
Issue 280
Retro Gamer
Utterly consumed
It has been a long time since I've had to force myself to stop playing a game, but recently I've been horribly addicted to Baldur's Gate 3. You'll no doubt be aware of the reviews, but I'm not sure any game in recent memory has hooked me in quite the same way.
2 min |
Issue 280
Retro Gamer
Back to R-Type
It's very important for you to know one thing: I'm not an actor.
2 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
BROKEN SWORD II REMASTER TAKES SHAPE
Charles Cecil talks us through Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror Reforged
4 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
Blippo+
We speak to the designers of an indie game about retro TV that's out of this world
4 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
PORTABLE SONY PASSION
Forever Arcade's Jay Drury loves his handheld gaming, especially Sony's brilliant PSP
2 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
Fables of the 360
Iam starting to come round to the idea that the Xbox 360 is the greatest console of all time.
2 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
Silent Hill 4: The Room
WHERE GREEDY LANDLORDS ARE THE LEAST OF YOUR WORRIES
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Issue 279
Retro Gamer
SUPER MARIO BROS
It may not be the oldest trick in the book, strictly speaking, but learning how to access the Warp Zones in Super Mario Bros was a formative experience for many of us.
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Issue 279
Retro Gamer
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
TWENTY YEARS AGO, THE XBOX 360 INTRODUCED A TANGIBLE WAY TO SHARE YOUR GAMING ACCOMPLISHMENTS WITH THE ACHIEVEMENTS SYSTEM. WE LOOK BACK AT HOW IT CAME TO BE AND HOW IT HAS PERMEATED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, EXPANDING, CHANGING AND INFLUENCING GAMING CULTURE
8 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
Possible mission
When I was 11, Impossible Mission for the Commodore 64 lived up to its name - it was digital cruelty at its finest.
3 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age
NOW WITH ADDED ACHIEVEMENTS
2 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF RB2 TM THE NEWCOMERS
REAL BOUT FATAL FURY 2
8 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
Ninku Gaiden: Hiroyuki Daikatsugeki
Sometimes, it's best not to make things more complicated than they need to be, and I like to think that the existence of Ninku Gaiden: Hiroyuki Daikatsugeki is a good example of this. In my mind's eye, someone at Sega saw that the company had obtained a licence for an anime series with a penguin in it, and simply said, “Didn't we do a game with a penguin back in the day?” Then, after swiftly clarifying that they meant Pengo and not Doki Doki Penguin Land, this spin-off was born.
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