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WARTECH: SENKO NO RONDE NIGHTS INTO DREAMS COVERMOUNT CORNER CONTRA: HARD CORPS COMMODORE 128 HOMEBREW SKY JINKS WIZBAL

INTREPID BOUNTY HUNTERS ON TAKING NINTENDO’S CULT SERIES INTO THE WORLD OF CUTTING-EDGE 3D

A Moment With
Find out Christian ‘Perifractic’ Simpson’s plans for the Commodore brand

The Retro Gamer Guide To: Nintendo 64
Our legacy feature looks at the many essential games for Nintendo’s console

Magazine Craft:Dan Curley
From working on magazines you’ve probably never heard of to Channel 4

Wartech:Senko No Ronde
With money in his pocket and plans to buy a brand-new Xbox 360 game, Nick was delighted to find an obscure game by a cult shmup developer he liked

REBECCA HEINEMAN: AN ENDURING LEGACY

Veterans pay tribute to the gaming legend that cofounded Interplay

4 mins

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.

2 mins

SPECIAL SPECTRUM

RETRO GAMES LIMITED UNVEILS A LIMITED BUNDLE

1 mins

GOAL SMASHED

THE VECTREX MINI CRUSHES ITS KICKSTARTER TARGET

1 mins

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 mins

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 mins

Commodore International

Commodore CEO Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson is leading the brand's revival at commodore.net

3 mins

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.

3 mins

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.

1 mins

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

10+ mins

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...

10+ mins

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

2 mins

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

4 mins

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

10+ mins

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

5 mins

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

2 mins

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

9 mins

NiGHTS Into Dreams

Being a big Sonic fan, I spent years wondering what NiGHTS Into Dreams might be like.

1 mins

FORMULA 1 97

PLATFORM: PLAYSTATION » RELEASED: 1997 » CHEAT TYPE: SECRET STAGE » CHEAT COMPLEXITY: VERY HIGH

1 mins

DAN CURLEY

In the early Nineties, Dan was a TV regular as the European Sega Champion. Over the decades that followed, he'd head into development, write gargantuan guides, break big news stories and help to guide a beloved magazine's final issues. We catch up with him to relive the ups and downs of a sometimes tempestuous career

10+ mins

Lilo & Stitch 2

After living with me for over 30 years, my wife Melanie is used to buying me things that you wouldn't typically associate with the average 52-year-old man.

1 mins

Evercade Multi-Game Cartridges

BLAZE ENTERTAINMENT FINISHES 2025 WITH A BANG

3 mins

G'AIM'E Time Crisis

The decline of CRT displays has been a huge problem for lightgun games, and despite some valiant efforts, scratching that itch without going to an arcade has become quite difficult.

2 mins

A MULTITUDE OF MEGA MAGAZINES

Marc Jowett holds the front pages with his impressive Sega magazine collection

2 mins

KNUCKLES' CHAOTIX

Released on Sega's 32X add-on for the Mega Drive, Knuckles' Chaotix is a colourful 2D platformer that introduced some unique gameplay elements and new characters, as well as giving Knuckles his only ever starring role

3 mins

GAMING 101

Adam Barnes formulates the perfect gaming education for his kids

3 mins

WarTech: Senko No Ronde

As a frequent importer of Dreamcast games, I came to love a small studio called G.Rev.

1 mins

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Uitgever: Future

Categorie: Puzzle_Gaming

Taal: English

Frequentie: Monthly

The world’s best guide to classic gaming, Retro Gamer is the only magazine in the UK that’s fully dedicated to the halcyon days of classic gaming. If you’ve ever fondly blasted away at the Bydo Empire in R-Type, swung Bowser by the tail in Super Mario 64, or navigated all 20 levels of Matthew Smith’s Manic Miner, then this is the magazine for you. Created by a dedicated team of experts, Retro Gamer’s mission is to deliver constantly engaging and passionately written articles that cover a wide range of subjects. We offer our readership in-depth looks at classic games and franchises, behind-the-scenes glimpses of the software houses from yesteryear, and one-on-one exclusive interviews with industry veterans such as Archer Maclean and Hideo Kojima. Stylish, entertaining and beautifully presented, Retro Gamer is the ultimate guide to videogaming’s rich and diverse history.