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Venus the Flytrap.

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Venus the Flytrap – what a great title! – was one of Gremlin Graphics’ most iconic games. Venus is one of those games with a fantastic intro – superb music and graphics that really draw you into the world. The first level is perhaps the most memorable, and the mecha-fly you control game is superb. […]

The New Zealand Story.

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Ah, another classic. When I got my first Amiga A500 back in 1990, it came with an impressive bundle of games alongside Deluxe Paint II; the Ten Star Games Pack, FA/18 Interceptor, Batman the Movie and The New Zealand Story. Back then, it seemed Ocean Software were one of the leading games houses for the […]

Benefactor.

Benefactor is a platform and puzzle combined game in the vein of Lemmings, was developed by Digital Illusions (DICE) and published by Psygnosis in 1994. The game comes on 3 disks, or on CD for the CD32 console. It runs on OCS and ECS. In Benefactor you control a character called Ben E. Factor, not […]

Tanglewood: Review.

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Back in 2016, an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign was run by Matt Phillips to create a brand-new Sega Megadrive/Genesis game called Tanglewood. This week that game got its official release on Steam and soon those that pledged for a physical retro version of that game will be getting their copies. In the meantime we were […]

Rainbow Islands.

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Rainbow Islands… now there’s an arcade classic that anybody of a certain gaming generation would have proudly had in their collection, back in the day. It’s almost impossible to not think of it when listing those seemingly immortal classic games. Bit does its reputation precede it? It’s fun and colourful, pretty playable and moderately addictive. […]

RVG Interviews: Andy John.

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Hello, here we are we another fabulous RVG Interview, in the hot seat this time is Andy John, Andy has worked as an artist for many years and recently caught the retro game dev bug and started to released some games for the Spectrum, read on to learn more.. The Interview RVG Thank you for […]

Wizball.

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Wizball was one of the very first games I ever played on my Amiga A500. It came as part of the Ten Star Games Pack in 1990, and always stood out as one of the most unusual games in there. Today Wizball hasn’t lost any of its appeal, and considering it was made in 1987, […]

Commodore: The Amiga Years.

By Gryzor
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To begin with, something to get out of the way: I’ve kind of lost track of the editions of Bagnall’s books. First there was the excellent “On the Edge – The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore”, one of my all-time favourite retro computing AND business books. Then came “Commodore: a company on the edge”, […]

The Secret History of Mac Gaming: Book Review.

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The Secret History of Mac Gaming is published through crowdfunding publisher Unbound and was released well over a year ago now. I’ve never owned a Mac, but I’ve had a real interest in this forgotten gem of a computer so I was eager to get hold of this book and read about a computer that […]

The 8-Bit Book – 1981 to 199X: Book Review.

By Gryzor
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The 8-Bit Book – 1981 to 199X book has 250 pages filled with nice reviews of 8-bit games from throughout the 80s (and a bit beyond). Each page contains a few screenshots, a couple of captions and a *lot* of text. What is nice is that the text is not entirely a review about each […]