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Retro Gamer
Future Classic
Modern games you'll still be playing in years to come
4 min |
Issue 248
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF BIOFORGE
EVERYONE KNOWS ORIGIN SYSTEMS FOR ITS WING COMMANDERS AND ITS ULTIMAS BUT THE ONCE GLORIOUS GAMES COMPANY HAD MANY OTHER GREAT TITLES UP ITS SLEEVE, SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN LOST IN THE MISTS OF TIME. LIKE BIOFORGE FOR EXAMPLE...
10+ min |
Issue 248
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF WORLD RALLY Championship
CRAFTED BY A SMALL TEAM IN SPAIN WITH A BACKGROUND IN 8-BIT PROGRAMMING, WORLD RALLY WAS AN INTERNATIONAL ARCADE SUCCESS. BUCKLE UP FOR THE RIDE AS CARLOS GRANADOS RECALLS THE HAIRPIN TWISTS AND TURNS THAT LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT FINISH LINE
8 min |
Issue 248
Retro Gamer
THE HISTORY OF RAI DEN
THE RAIDEN GAMES HAVE LEFT A PROFOUND LEGACY IN THE SHOOTING GAME GENRE SINCE THE VERY FIRST DEBUTED IN 1990. IT’S A SERIES THAT HAS NEVER BEEN AFRAID TO CARVE ITS OWN PATH. AND IT ISN’T YET DONE
10+ min |
Issue 248
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF Werewolves OF LONDON
RUN RAMPAGE ACROSS THE ROOFTOPS! GET SAVAGE IN THE SEWERS! HAVE A HAIRY FIT IN HYDE PARK! SPREAD TERROR IN THE TUBE STATIONS! IT MIGHT SOUND LIKE AN AVERAGE WEEKEND IN LONDON, BUT IT'S THE PREMISE FOR A TRUE CULT CLASSIC
5 min |
Issue 248
Retro Gamer
ULTIMATE GUIDE CHADS
SELECT YOUR SPELLS AND LET THE GODS DECIDE YOUR FATE IN THE FINEST MULTIPLAYER ZX SPECTRUM GAME OF ALL TIME. WELCOME TO CHAOS, THE MAGICAL BATTLE TO THE DEATH ON THE PLANE OF LIMBO
7 min |
Issue 248
Retro Gamer
INSIDE THE Nintendo ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
FOR MANY PLAYERS, NINTENDO’S 8-BIT HARDWARE WAS THE DEFINING CONSOLE OF ITS GENERATION. WE SPEAK TO NES DEVELOPMENT VETERANS ABOUT DEVELOPING THE GAMES MILLIONS GREW UP WITH, AND FIND OUT HOW A NEW GENERATION OF CODERS DEVELOP FOR THE SYSTEM TODAY
10+ min |
Issue 248
Retro Gamer
THE LATEST NEWS FROM NOVEMBER 2006
NOVEMBER 2006 – It’s one of the biggest months ever, as the PlayStation 3 and Wii both hit store shelves for the first time and developers compete for the Christmas sales bonanza. Nick Thorpe is your time-traveling guide to all of the excitement
3 min |
Issue 248
Retro Gamer
BBG Entertainment
Stephan Berendsen on reviving popular retro titles – including Intellivision classics – for PCs and consoles
3 min |
Issue 248
Retro Gamer
FROM BIG BOX TO BIG WEBSITE
Meet the collector who shares his collection online
2 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
NOTHING TO CRY ABOUT
3 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF BLADE WARRIOR
BEFORE CREATING MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING EMPIRE REBELLION WITH HIS BROTHER CHRIS IN THE EARLY NINETIES, JASON KINGSLEY SET OUT TO CREATE A UNIQUE AND HUGELY ATMOSPHERIC 16-BIT GAME CALLED PALADIN LORD OF THE DANCING BLADES, LATER RENAMED TO BLADE WARRIOR
7 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF TURBO THE TORTOISE
TURBO THE TORTOISE RACED ON TO THE THREE MOST POPULAR 8-BITS JUST AS THEY WERE REACHING THE FINISHING LINE. SO, TO MAKE THIS BUDGET RELEASE MORE ATTRACTIVE, THE DEVELOPERS DECIDED TO GIVE PLAYERS A TASTE OF GAMING ON CONSOLES
8 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
ULTIMATE GUIDE GHOSTBUSTERS
YOU MIGHT THINK SOMEONE TRYING TO BOLT THIS MOVIE LICENCE ONTO A CAR COMBAT GAME WOULDN'T HAVE A GHOST OF A CHANCE, BUT DAVID CRANE MADE IT WORK. WE LOOK BACK AT A GAME THAT, DESPITE THE ODDS, CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF ITS SOURCE MATERIAL
6 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
Future Classic
Modern games you’ll still be playing in years to come
4 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
The Legend Lives On: 20 YEARS OF Out Run 2
TWENTY YEARS AGO AN ARCADE RACING LEGEND WAS BORN AND GAMERS WERE TAKEN ON A BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY THAT CONTINUES TO THIS DAY. JOIN US AS WE CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY BY SITTING DOWN WITH SUMO DIGITAL TO CHART THE ENDURING HISTORY OF OUTRUN 2
10+ min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
THE LATEST NEWS FROM OCTOBER 2006
Sony and Nintendo might have been preparing to unleash shiny new hardware, but the Xbox 360 was retaining player attention with games like Capcom’s Dead Rising, which offered a journalistic mystery to uncover and a mall full of zombies to slaughter.
3 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
RichCast
Philip Oliver on the immersive storytelling app evoking memories of age-old adventures
4 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
Our friends are all aboard
I am very late to the Sea Of Thieves party, but what a party it is.
2 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
RETURN TO BATEN KAITOS
Producer Koji Nakajima on updating the classic GameCube RPGs
3 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
ONE LIFE LEFT 2023
Faith Johnson reports on Norwich's premiere gaming convention
3 min |
Issue 247
Retro Gamer
Worms World Party
FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT
1 min |
Issue 245
Retro Gamer
Shadow Dancer: The Secret Of Shinobi
SAME NAME, DIFFERENT GAME
1 min |
Issue 245
Retro Gamer
Air Rescue
THIS WHIRLYBIRD WON’T FLY
1 min |
Issue 245
Retro Gamer
A TRIBUTE TO CORE DESIGN
CREATED BY FORMER GREMLIN GRAPHICS’ DERBY STAFF, CORE DESIGN FOUND SUCCESS WITH RICK DANGEROUS AND CHUCK ROCK BEFORE CAPTURING THE ZEITGEIST WITH LARA CROFT. RETRO GAMER CELEBRATES THE WORLD-BEATING STUDIO WITH COFOUNDER JEREMY HEATH-SMITH
10+ min |
Issue 245
Retro Gamer
Jaws Unleashed
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL
1 min |
Issue 245
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF SENTINEL RETURNS
GEOFF CRAMMOND’S THE SENTINEL WAS ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE COMPUTER GAMES TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE EIGHTIES. A DECADE LATER A DARKER, MORE TWISTED AND EVEN MORE INTRIGUING VERSION EMERGED FROM PSYGNOSIS FOR THE PC AND SONY’S PLAYSTATION
8 min |
Issue 245
Retro Gamer
C-SMASH VRS
COULD A CULT-FAVOURITE DREAMCAST GAME REALLY BE RE-IMAGINED AS AN ARCADE SPORTS EXPERIENCE BEFITTING THE LATEST IN VR TECHNOLOGY? WE SPEAK TO THE TEAM THAT HAS TAKEN ON THE MIGHTY TASK OF DOING JUST THAT
4 min |
Issue 245
Retro Gamer
ULTIMATE GUIDE GAME OVER
IT’S THE SPANISH-MADE GAME THAT CAUSED A COLOSSAL – AND HYPOCRITICAL – STIR IN THE UK THANKS TO ITS CONTROVERSIAL ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN. JOIN RETRO GAMER AS WE LOOK BACK AT THE 8-BIT RUN-AND-GUN GAME THAT CEMENTED DEVELOPER DINAMIC’S REPUTATION – FOR BETTER OR WORSE
6 min |
Issue 245
Retro Gamer
CLASSIC MOMENTS Fatal Fury
So far, the combatants of Fatal Fury have been pretty fearsome types
2 min |