Welcome to another book review from me (Darren), I know it’s been a while since I last wrote about these amazing retro gaming books so I had to return to cover this book. The wonderfully crafted “50 ST Games you have to play” by Karl Morris of Zafinn Books, as a veteran Atari ST user […]
The BBC Micro was the first computer I got to use way back in the ’80s, back then these computers were rolled out to schools around the UK as educational tools, but a few of us cheeky lot would often play games on them. Acorn – A World in Pixels celebrates everything about this wonderful […]
C64 – Millie and Molly and ZX Spectrum Wonderful Dizzy It gives me great pleasure to announce the winners of the RVG Game of the Year Awards 2020. Another year comes to an end and what a year it’s been, but let’s forget all that. We had some amazing games released in 2020, we asked […]
Scramble Cobra, advertised as a combat flight simulator for the 3DO, hit the shelves early in the machine’s history, at least in Japan (1994). North America had to wait until the following year to get their hands on this title, but was it worth their wait? The premise is simple enough: you pilot an AH-1W […]
Welcome to RVG’s Game of the Year 2020, another year comes to an end and what a year it’s been, but let’s forget all that and have some fun and nominate the best C64 and best ZX Spectrum games of 2020. As mentioned above we have decided to move away from just the C64 GOTY […]
Disclaimer: Before I begin, I just want to clarify that I am in no way advocating piracy. Whilst I look back fondly on this era of my youth, there is no doubt that counterfeit gaming seriously damages the industry, especially those smaller studios and their entire workforce. This is a nostalgia piece on how piracy […]
Killing Time, released in 1995 for the 3DO and later, with “improved” conversions, to Windows and Mac OS in 1996 and 1997 respectively, is nominally a first person shooter but much like one of the numerous enemies featured in the game, this is very much a two headed beast. Being a 3DO title, you’d naturally […]
Released in 1994 and given the title VR Stalker, you’d be forgiven for thinking this could be something of a period cyber-thriller or esoteric Japanese manga-inspired game. Hell, it could even have been an early 90’s science fiction TV show spin-off for something like VR.5 or Harsh Realm. But no, gentle reader, VR Stalker is […]
Same room multi-player gaming is the original, and for me still, ultimate way to play video games. The first games that are recognisable as such were two player. Tennis for Two, Space War and Pong are designed for 2 players. Ralph Baer in an interview in his later years expressed disappointment at how video games […]
Games That Weren’t is a website created by Frank Gasking, Frank started the site during the ’90s, essentially it was formed to collate information about games that never saw a public release. Over the years the content on the website just grew exponentially, more people visiting and share info on lost games, this eventually called […]