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Retro Gamer
TIGER HELI
TIGER-HELI ESTABLISHED TOAPLAN'S REPUTATION AS A SHOOTING GAME POWERHOUSE, EMERGING AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT, INFLUENTIAL RELEASES THE GENRE HAS EVER SEEN. AND IT'S STILL NOT DONE. LATER THIS YEAR TIGER-HELI LANDS ON ATARI CONSOLES. BUT WHAT MADE IT SUCH A SPECIAL GAME?
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Retro Gamer
SUPER COLLECTENDO
Mark Smith's love for the SNES comes from lifelong friendships
2 min |
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SOUL READER 1&2 REMASTERED
RETURN TO NOSGOTH
2 min |
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TONY WARRINER
Before creating classics like Beneath A Steel Sky and Broken Sword, the Revolution Software cofounder had a chaotic start to his career that saw him working on the infamous World Cup Carnival and programming flight control systems
10+ min |
Issue 275
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THE MAKING OF RAYMAN 2
ORIGINALLY PLANNED AS A 2D GAME, RAYMAN'S SEQUEL QUICKLY MOVED INTO THE THIRD DIMENSION. HOWEVER, CREATING A 3D PLATFORMER PROVED TO BE CHALLENGING, PARTICULARLY WITH MANY MEMBERS OF THE TEAM NOT USED TO THE NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT WAS REQUIRED...
8 min |
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Hardware Heaven ZX81
After finding success with the ZX80 computer, Sinclair Research wanted a new model on the market for 1981.
1 min |
Issue 275
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Time for a truce
Ah, the Amiga. My history - Digitiser's history with the 16-bit Commodore machine is well documented. The potted version is that when Digitiser launched on Teletext we didn't initially feature the Amiga. Cue calls and letters from angry Amiga fans. We relented. And then over the next year or so our initial assertion that the Amiga was on its way out kind of, y'know, came to pass, and so we were duty-bound to report that news.
2 min |
Issue 275
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NINJA COP
Hudson Soft's Ninja Cop swung into action on the Game Boy Advance, delivering fast-paced, justice-fuelled thrills and playing like a cross between Strider and Bionic Commando. It now demands a hefty price on the second-hand market, but is it actually worth the effort to track down?
3 min |
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XBOX 180
Microsoft should have named its second console n the Xbox 180 because that's kind of what it pulled off with the machine.
3 min |
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BASIC BRILLIANCE
Organiser Gunnar Karnold and competitor Ben Coffer talk about the 2025 edition of the BASIC 10-Liner competition
2 min |
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Thunder Force IV
As great as shmups are, playing them can be a pretty lonely experience due to many of them catering to a single player.
1 min |
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A MEGA JAPANESE COLLECTION
From small acorns mighty collections grow
2 min |
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Retro Gamer
BANJO-KAZOOIE
AS EARLY MASCOTS OF THE NINTENDO 64, BANJO THE FIST-SWINGING BEAR AND KAZOOIE THE EGG-SHOOTING BREEGULL WERE HERALDED AS BRITISH DEVELOPER RARE'S ANSWER TO SUPER MARIO 64. NEARLY 30 YEARS ON, WE SPEAK TO SERIES COMPOSER GRANT KIRKHOPE FOR HIS MEMORIES OF WORKING ON THE ACCLAIMED PLATFORMER
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Sleepwalker
JUST WAKE HIM
1 min |
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Mario Kart World
DOES NINTENDO'S LAUNCH GAME OFFER YOU THE WORLD?
3 min |
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THE LATEST NEWS FROM JANUARY 2009
Zombies might be cold, dead things, but Valve's coop shooter Left4Dead was full of them and happened to be the hot new thing in town.
3 min |
Issue 274
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The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
1 min |
Issue 274
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Do you like Worms?
I haven't been on the telly for about six years and the radio for five. I am very much what some people might call a 'has been'. But to quote Shakespeare, “Better to be a has been than a never was.” I still have tiny bits of I'm A Celebrity magic dust in my hair and every now and then I give my head a wobble and get really sweet gigs. One of them happened a couple of weeks ago when Chris Wilkins invited me to host a Q&A at his ZZAP!64 event in Kenilworth. I've written before about the lovely vibe at these meets.
2 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
YOUR SINCLAIR #64
IN THE DARK DAYS BEFORE THE INTERNET WE GOT OUR GAME NEWS FROM MAGAZINES. COMPETITION WAS FIERCE, BUT A GOOD COVERTAPE COULD STAND OUT AND TEMPT READERS INTO A PURCHASE. IN THIS MONTH'S COVERMOUNT CORNER, WE LOOK AT YOUR SINCLAIR #64, WITH A TAPE MORE STUFFED THAN EVER
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THE MAKING OF JUNGLE STRIKE: THE SEQUEL TO DESERT STRIKE
IN 1993, ELECTRONIC ARTS RELEASED A SEQUEL TO ONE OF ITS MOST ICONIC 16-BIT GAMES. THE PREMISE WAS 'BIGGER, BETTER, MORE', AND IT DELIVERED IN SPADES. RETRO GAMER DONS ITS FLIGHT SUIT AND TAKES THE COMANCHE FOR A SPIN WITH JUNGLE STRIKE DESIGNERS JOHN MANLEY AND TONY BARNES...
7 min |
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Power Stone
MORE POWER, MORE POSSIBILITIES
1 min |
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Arcade Archives 2: Ridge Racer
DOES THE KING OF DRIFT STILL HAVE IT?
2 min |
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NICK ROBERTS
A true unsung legend of the publishing industry, Nick Roberts started out poking around on Crash before launching, editing and even designing some of the UK's most iconic gaming mags. Given his clear plate-spinning talents, perhaps it's somewhat ironic then that the first videogame he ever played was Wacky Waiters!
10+ min |
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Ghostbusters
I was 11 years old when I first watched Ghostbusters and it left quite the impression on me.
1 min |
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Andrew Braybrook
The creator of Paradroid and Uridium tells Rory Milne about his new games
3 min |
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A TRULY HYPER SEQUEL
Jonathan Port on his follow-up game that crosses Uridium with Paradroid
3 min |
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ULTIMATE Suikoden
A VANGUARD FOR THE FIRST ERA OF 32-BIT RPGS, YOSHITAKA MURAYAMA AND JUNKO KAWANO'S SUIKODEN PROVED THE STRONG FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED BY POPULAR 16-BIT CONSOLE RPGS AND BOLSTERED IT WITH NEW METHODS OF COMBAT, A STRIKING POLITICALLY DRIVEN NARRATIVE, AND AN ARMY'S WORTH OF RECRUITABLE CHARACTERS
5 min |
Issue 274
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The American crash diet
it was 1983 and the country was gorging on videogames. Sales were exploding. Games begat books, begat cartoons, begat top 40 singles. Everything short of a breakfast cereal. (Wait. Never mind. That happened too.)
2 min |
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SwanCrystal
■ Tanita Corporation's Mama Mitte, a scale designed to track the health of pregnant mothers and their children, included a SwanCrystal for receiving and displaying data from the scale.
1 min |
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BUDGET BRILLIANCE
How PC gaming is turning Darran to digital releases
3 min |