Puzzle_Gaming
Retro Gamer
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It's very important for you to know one thing: I'm not an actor.
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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 |
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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
1 min |
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.
1 min |
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 |
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Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF RB2 TM THE NEWCOMERS
REAL BOUT FATAL FURY 2
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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.
1 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
X MARKS THE SPOT
The team look back at Microsoft's Xbox 360
3 min |
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Lumines Arise
THE RHYTHM IS GOING TO GET YOU
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Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF stormbringer
THE FOURTH MAGIC KNIGHT GAME TOOK INSPIRATION FROM A FOLK ROCK ALBUM AND A STAR TREK EPISODE, AND FOR SO MANY YEARS IT SERVED AS THE BUDGET GAME HERO'S SWAN SONG. DAUTD JONES RECALLS HOW HE CREATED STORMBRINGER AND TEASES ITS SUCCESSOR
6 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
CELEBRATING TOMONOBU ITAGAKI
THE CREATOR OF DEAD OR ALIVE PASSES
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Issue 279
Retro Gamer
20 YEARS OF THE XBOX
TWO DECADES AGO, MICROSOFT SOUGHT TO USHER IN A NEW ERA OF GAMES - BIGGER GAMES, SMALLER GAMES, AND GAMES THAT WOULD BE MORE CONNECTED THAN EVER BEFORE. WE JOIN THOSE WHO WORKED WITH THE SYSTEM DURING ITS LIFETIME TO LOOK BACK AT THE MOST BELOVED XBOX CONSOLE
10+ min |
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Retro Gamer
Kurushi
Shortly before I started on Retro Gamer, I had a housemate whose boyfriend would always turn off the music in videogames if given the option.
1 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
DONKEY KONG COUNTRY
RARE'S DONKEY KONG COUNTRY WAS A GROUND-BREAKING GAME IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE, WITH GAMERS GOING BANANAS OVER DAVID WISE'S STANDOUT SOUNDTRACK. INCORPORATING ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS AND MUSIC INSPIRED BY A BUNCH OF ICONIC ARTISTS, IT GOT THE MOST OUT OF THE SNES' IMPRESSIVE SPC700 SOUND CHIP
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Issue 279
Retro Gamer
A GENERATION REDEFINED
How upgrading to high definition has heightened Nick's Xbox 360 love
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Retro Gamer
THE HISTORY OF TERMINATOR GAMES
SINCE THE DEBUT OF THE 1984 MOVIE, TERMINATOR VIDEOGAMES HAVE APPEARED WITH EVERY SUBSEQUENT INSTALMENT. MUCH LIKE THE FILMS THEMSELVES, IT'S BEEN AN ERRATIC AND SOMETIMES BIZARRE JOURNEY. RETRO GAMER STEPS BACK (OR IS IT FORWARD?) IN TIME TO INVESTIGATE
10+ min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
AMSTRAD ACTION #70
The Amstrad CPC brand was struggling in 1991. Attempts to refresh it with the Plus models had failed.
2 min |
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Retro Gamer
FIRE EMBLEM
Despite first debuting on the Famicom in the early Nineties, it took another decade for Intelligent System's long-running series to appear in the West. This might explain why that first release now fetches a princely sum
3 min |
Issue 279
Retro Gamer
PlayStation Vita
Though the PSP didn't manage to unseat Nintendo as the dominant force in handheld gaming, it was a popular machine, so it's understandable that Sony didn't change too much for its followup.
1 min |
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Retro Gamer
Pokémon Legends: Z-A
THE SCORE TELLS HALF THE TAIL
2 min |
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THE MAKING OF Pipe Mania
CREATING A WINNING PUZZLE GAME WAS NO PIPE DREAM FOR THE ASSEMBLY LINE. ALL IT TOOK WAS A FLOW OF IDEAS AND THE INPUT OF SOME WISE MASTERS IN A RANCH FAR, FAR AWAY TO PRODUCE A GAME THAT HAS MORE THAN STOOD THE TEST OF TIME
7 min |
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Retro Gamer
Fishing Derby
THE REEL FISHING SIMULATOR
1 min |
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Retro Gamer
007 night fire
THE LATE-NINETIES AND EARLY NOUGHTIES WERE THE GOLDEN YEARS OF JAMES BOND VIDEOGAMES. AT THE CENTRE OF IT ALL IS THE MUCH-LOVED 2002 RELEASE NIGHTFIRE. THE GAME'C CO COMPOSER, AND LIFELONG BOND FAN, JEFF TYMOSCHUK KEENLY PAID HOMAGE TO THE SERIES' ICONIC MUSIC WITH HIS OWN REFERENCE-LADEN SOUNDTRACK
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Issue 278
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF OPERATION WOLF
FEW ARCADE GAMES WERE AS IMPOSING, AS ICONIC OR AS INFLUENTIAL AS TAITO'S HIT COIN-OP THAT REDEFINED THE LIGHTGUN GENRE. IN THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, THE GAME'S DIRECTOR TOSHIAKI KATO REVEALS THE UNTOLD STORY BEHIND THE MAKING OF THIS ARCADE MILESTONE
10+ min |
Issue 278
Retro Gamer
Hardware Heaven
Following the enormous success of the DS, Nintendo didn't feel the need to reinvent the wheel.
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