Puzzle-gaming
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF 押忍! 開元! 応援団 OSU! TATAKAE! OUENDAN
OUENDAN WAS ONE OF THE EARLY IMPORT CULT HITS THAT SHOWCASED THE NINTENDO DS' TECH WITH ITS OWN DUAL FUNCTION OF RHYTHM GAMEPLAY AND STORYTELLING WITH HOTBLOODED EMOTIONS. WE SPEAK WITH FORMER TEAM MEMBERS OF INIS ON HOW THEY MADE THIS UNIQUE MANGA- INSPIRED CHEERLEADING GAME
10 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
DIRTY CHEATS
If you're not cheating, you're not trying
4 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF Katamari Damacy
KEITA TAKAHASHI TALKS US THROUGH HIS JOURNEY FROM ART-SCHOOL ODDBALL TO WORLDWIDE ACCLAIM AS THE CREATOR OF THE PS2 CLASSIC KATAMARI DAMACY. ALONG THE WAY WE DISCUSS GOAT-SHAPED FLOWERPOTS, DESIGNING PLAYGROUNDS, HIS ENDLESS WISH TO MAKE PEOPLE SMILE AND HIS NEW GAME, TO A T
10 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
SPLATTERHOUSE
IN A GAME FILLED WITH HORROR CLICHÉS, THIS ONE NATURALLY BEGINS ON A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, WHEN A COUPLE OF KIDS ENTER AN ABANDONED MANSION. JOIN US AS WE TOO STEP INSIDE THE SPLATTERHOUSE - AND IF YOU'RE FEELING FAINT, JUST KEEP REPEATING, \"IT'S ONLY A VIDEOGAME... ONLY A VIDEOGAME....\"
5 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
Tutankham
ANCIENT ARCADE TREASURE
1 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
21 years later
Getting older, time feels increasingly erratic. Things that happened in the past couple of years feel like a lifetime ago, whereas the Nineties feel like last week.
2 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
GOD OF WAR
IN ADDITION TO BEING A BEST-SELLING PS2 GAME, GOD OF WAR IS ALSO REMEMBERED FOR ITS ENVIRONMENT-ORIENTATED SCORE, ADAPTING TO PLAYER MOVEMENTS IN A FASHION RARELY SEEN IN GAMES AT THE TIME. COMPOSER GERARD K MARINO CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
3 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Octopus Arcade Stick
ONE STICK TO RULE THEM ALL?
3 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Street Fighter II Turbo
WHO'S THE BOSS?
1 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Er*Bert
NO WONDER Q*BERT SWEARS
1 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
TOMONOBU ITAGAKI
Director and producer of some of the most praised fighting games and beat-'em-ups developed by Team Ninja, Tomonobu Itagaki upholds to his somehow nefarious reputation, frankly answering Retro Gamer's questions
10+ min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
AMY LEE
The superstar vocalist discusses Evanescence's new Devil May Cry song and classic games
4 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
MASTERING THE ZX SPECTRUM
ON 21 APRIL 1982, SINCLAIR RESEARCH UNVEILED ITS LATEST HOME MICRO, THE ZX SPECTRUM. THIS SMALL AND IDIOSYNCRATIC DEVICE WOULD HELP KICKSTART THE UK GAMES INDUSTRY, INSPIRING PEOPLE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO START PROGRAMMING. IN THIS SPECIAL FEATURE, WE LERAN FROM SOME OF THEM JUST WHAT CREATING GAMES ON THIS MAGICAL YET FLAWED COMPUTER WAS LIKE
10+ min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Pigeon steps
Am I the only person on the planet who isn't massively excited about the Switch 2? It's a rhetorical question. I know I am. I don't know what has happened with this current generation of consoles, but they feel like they're pigeon-stepping forwards. I've got a PS5 - someone very kind gifted it to me - but there's still so little to play on it that really justifies the hardware.
2 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
GAUNTLET IV
A bunch of Japanese students, including a young man named Naoki Horii, fell in love with Atari's coin-op classic Gauntlet... and a few years later, they just start porting Ed Logg's hoary dungeon adventure to the Sega Mega Drive and by doing so, created the definitive adaptation
7 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
ULTIMATE GUIDE SUPER MARIO KART
TAKE SOME GO-KARTS AND MODE 7 TRACKS, ADD A HEALTHY HELPING OF COMBAT AND THEN SPRINKLE IN A LITTLE MARIO MAGIC. WHAT DO YOU GET? ONE OF THE FINEST GAMES EVER MADE FOR THE SNES, AND THE FIRST ENTRY IN A LEGENDARY SERIES OF MULTIPLAYER RACING GAMES
5 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF FX FIGHTER
IN THE MID-NINETIES, WHEN 3D FIGHTING GAMES HAD ALREADY TAKEN OVER ARCADES, THE GENRE WAS STILL HEAVILY UNDERREPRESENTED ON THE PC. THAT IS, UNTIL 1995 - THE YEAR ARGONAUT SOFTWARE'S FX FIGHTER MADE ITS DEBUT
8 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF SUBWAR 2050
MICROPROSE UK'S SUBWAR 2050 WAS A UNIQUE BLEND OF SUBMARINE WARFARE, SIMULATION, AND STRATEGY SET IN THE NOW NOT-TOO-DISTANT FUTURE. MANNING AN ADVANCED FIGHTER SUB AND ACTING AS A MERCENARY, THIS MISSION-BASED 3D UNDERWATER GAME FOR THE PC AND AMIGA SENT THE PLAYER BENEATH THE WAVES...
6 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
DIRECTLY RETRO
The latest online shows from Nintendo and Blaze were full of retro goodness
3 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Split Fiction
If you read last month’s thrilling column, I was about to nip upstairs and play the new game Split Fiction. I wasn't completely sure what to expect but what I'd seen made it look decent.
2 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Bump 'N' Jump
RUSH HOUR RELIEF
1 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
It's all about the next generation for this collector
2 min |
Issue 270
Retro Gamer
PETER JACKSON'S KING KONG THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THE MOVIE
HOW DID THE TALENTED TEAM AT UBISOFT MONTPELLIER COPE WITH THE CHALLENGE OF CREATING A VIDEOGAME BASED ON AN ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING BLOCKBUSTER FILM? WITH AS MUCH PASSION AND DEDICATION DEVELOPERS COULD PROVIDE TO ACHIEVE A UNIQUE PROJECT. THIS IS THEIR STORY
5 min |
Issue 270
Retro Gamer
DINO CRISIS
IN 1999, RESIDENT EVIL CREATOR SHINJI MIKAMI SWAPPED GROANING GHOULS FOR RAMPAGING REPTILES AND THE RESULT WAS DINO CRISIS, ANOTHER SURVIVAL HORROR HIT FROM CAPCOM. JOIN RETRO GAMER AS WE DISCOVER WHY THIS FAN FAVOURITE SHOULDN'T BE DISMISSED AS 'RESIDENT EVIL WITH DINOSAURS'
7 min |
Issue 270
Retro Gamer
THE LEGACY REALM OF TERROR
SIMULATOR EXPERTS MICROPROSE AND TEXT ADVENTURE MASTERS MAGNETIC SCROLLS JOINED FORCES ON A TERROR-INSPIRED GRAPHIC ROLE-PLAYING PC GAME PUBLISHED IN THE EARLY NINETIES. WITH RENDERED MONSTERS, RPG TROPES GALORE AND A STRONG LOVECRAFTIAN VIBE, PREPARE TO EXPERIENCE THE HORRORS WITHIN THE LEGACY...
7 min |
Issue 270
Retro Gamer
Virtua Fighter 5 REVO
SEGA'S VETERAN FIGHTER STILL PACKS A PUNCH
3 min |
Issue 270
Retro Gamer
HOW ADVERGAMES CONQUERED EUROPE
Throughout the Eighties and Nineties, Europe fell in love with advergames as they were used to sell all kinds of products, from cigarettes to chocolate, as well as political parties and banking services. What was going on?
7 min |
Issue 270
Retro Gamer
WWF Royal Rumble
Nostalgia has recently drawn me back to the time I became a wrestling fan - the Attitude Era of the WWF, when Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock ruled the wrestling world.
1 min |
Issue 270
Retro Gamer
TURRICAN II: THE FINAL FIGHT
Manfred Trenz's Turrican II is one of the really, really great home-computer classics that has shot its way into the hearts of all run-and-gun fans, especially its 1991 Amiga incarnation. But did you know that almost five years later there was a much-improved conversion for DOS computers?
6 min |
Issue 270
Retro Gamer
ASTRO BOT
After delighting new PS5 owners as an opening act to showcase the console’s unique features, Astro Bot was finally ready for prime time as Team Asobi made a fully fledged 3D platformer with polished production values channeling Nintendo magic and PlayStation history
3 min |