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My Perfect Videogames #3 of 4 – Tetris (Various)

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Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest chess players ever – he became world champion in 1972 and could have been champion longer had he been of a more conservative disposition. Fischer was an American and the fact that he became world chess champion is like a beautiful flower growing up through cracks in a […]

My Perfect Videogames #2 of 4 – Asteroids Deluxe (Arcade)

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Anyone who has read my feature on importing a classic cabinet from the US won’t be surprised by this being on my list of 4 perfect games. The original Asteroids in the arcade was a unique experience with its needle sharp graphics and forboding powerful bass sound effects. It was a technical tour de force […]

RVG Interviews: Karen Davies Downey

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RVG is back with its ever-popular RVG Interviews series, this time we interview Karen Davies Downey, Karen has worked on many classic titles in her career, we chat about some of them and much much more. Enjoy! RVG Thank you for agreeing to our interview, please take a moment to tell us a little about […]

Retro Tea Breaks Vol1 – Smashes KS Fund Target.

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Retro Tea Breaks Vol.1 is a collection of interviews with pioneers who have helped shape the computer, console and video game industry. Written by Neil from RetroManCave, a very popular YouTube channel where he explores everything to do with retro computers, consoles and much more besides. The quote below voices more or less how we […]

My Perfect Videogames #1 of 4 – Super Breakout (Atari 2600)

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To claim that a videogame is perfect is quite bold. But I’m going to name four that I consider to be so – simply because they require no further adornment. In this short series of articles I will name 4 games that I think are perfect – evidenced as such by the fact that I […]

Solar Jet Man: NES Review

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In the same genre as Atari’s vastly underrated arcade game Gravitar and the popular home game Thrust which was a C64 game inspired by the arcade game and ported to practically every 8bit platform ; including an excellent latter-day homebrew Atari 2600 version. Solar Jet Man takes the genre to its ultimate limits, taking the […]

Micro Machines ’96 Turbo Tournament – Megadrive/Genesis Review

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Micro Machines was a gaming phenomenon in the UK – it is an old school racer in the same stable as classics such as Atari’s Super Sprint in that the view is top down, but there are many differences and improvements made to the genre in this series of games. The first main difference is […]

Ms Pacman Megadrive/Genesis Review

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Tengen’s Ms. Pacman on the Megadrive gives us a port of the famous arcade game with a host of variations and new ways to play for 1 and 2 players. Graphics This is Ms. Pacman and graphics are as good as you can expect for a game of this type. However this is no pixel […]

Toki – Going Ape Spit – Megadrive/Genesis

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Toki (aka Ju Ju) is very much a game of its time; the late 80s/early 90s were a time when the platformer was king. This of course meant that there were were an awful lot of indentikit games around – hordes of these games existed and many of them offered nothing new. Toki stood out […]

Solar Storm – 2600 review

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The 2600 library is awash with 2D shooters; some great, most pretty generic. Indeed , the glut of so many poorly implemented retreads of the same game was a factor in the US game crash in the mid-80s. Solar Storm is a 2D shooter, but it has a few features that make it stand out […]