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Taming Gaming: Guide Your Child to Video Game Health.

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We was informed of this new book seeking funding through crowdfunding publisher Unbound – the book is a light-hearted, informative guide to what screen-time, gaming and gadgets are doing to children, for parents who’d rather lock it all in a cupboard. Here is what the creator says about the book on the campaign page. Taming […]

New Gaming Mag -PRE-ORDER – Issue 2 of Fusion.

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Fusion Retro Books have announced you can now pre-order issue 2 of their new magazine. Visit the link below to get your order in now. https://fusiongamemag.com/collections/magazine/products/fusion-issue-2-pre-order

SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works Book Review.

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The Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works is another stunning tome from Darren Wall and his team at Read Only Memory, this time devoted to Sega’s iconic 16-bit console. A console many of us grew up with and have many fond memories of. Again the book was funded through a very successful Kickstarter campaign achieving £98,725 […]

Zaxxon

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While Donkey Kong was the AAA pack-in for the Colecovision, it was the isometric shooter Zaxxon that dropped people’s jaws in 1982. Here was a huge 24K cartridge (yes, 24K!!) with screenshots seeming to confirm it was very much like the arcade game. Donkey Kong was a kick in the teeth for rivals Atari, but […]

Pac-Man Collection – Opcode Games.

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Arcade games were never literally converted to consoles in the eighties- there were always slight gameplay differences in even the best ones- but with Pac-Man Collection by Opcode Games however, we have that literal translation previously thought impossible. In fact, we have three: Pac-Man, Ms Pac-Man and Pac-Man Plus contained in one very special limited […]

Donkey Kong.

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When the Colecovision was released with Donkey Kong in 1982, their strategy for taking on Atari was clever: buy some cheaper second-tier arcade licences and give away one bigger licence as a pack-in with the machine. Donkey Kong was the perfect choice as the freebie, as there was no way the VCS could compete graphically […]

RVG Interviews: Anthony Guter (Mastertronic).

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Here’s our interview with Anthony Guter, who worked for the amazing Mastertronic during its heyday. Anthony I’m Anthony Guter and I worked for Mastertronic (later Virgin Mastertronic) between 1985 and 1991. I was a Financial Controller until 1989 and then a Systems Manager thereafter. Greyfox Although there were a few games released for the Atari computer […]

Breakout: Book Review.

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Breakout: How Atari 8-bit Computers Defined a Generation, written by Jamie Lendino, is a book that only comes along once in a blue moon for us Atari computer fans. That in itself is a crying shame considering everything these computers had to offer the home computer enthusiast and were as capable and worthy to sit […]

RVG Podcast Interview: Brian Colin.

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New Podcast Co-Host Eugenio aka TREKMD had the chance to meet Brian during FreePlay Florida this past November. After some time chatting he agreed to do an interview for us. If you don’t know who Brian is, he is a video game designer who is best known for his work on Rampage, Arch Rivals, and Rampage: […]

RVG Interviews: Luis Martins.

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RVG Interviews Luis Martins, Luis is the Co-Creator/artist/AD of Paprium, Chrono resurrection and he is also a Senior Lighting Artist ay UBISOFT working on games like Rise Of The Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, For Honor, WatchDogs 2. Enjoy! The Interview, Zapiy Thank you for agreeing to our interview, please take a moment to tell us […]