THE RETROBATES

WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE WONDER BOY GAME?

THE EVERCADE EXPANDS

Blaze reveals new games and a brand-new handheld in its Evercade range

Don’t look him in the eyes

Have you ever seen one of those big

Undimmed potential

In the mid-Eighties, there was one game I

Llamasoft

Jeff Minter and Ivan ‘Giles’ Zorzin on porting Tempest 4000 to Switch

THE LATEST NEWS FROM OCTOBER 2005

OCTOBER 2005 – As we enter the final

The Legend Of Kage

BECOME THE NINJA

THE HISTORY OF WONDER BOY

WHETHER IT MAKES YOU THINK OF A LITTLE LAD ON A SKATEBOARD OR A BOY WHO TURNS INTO BEASTS, THE WONDER BOY SERIES HAS LONG BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH QUALITY. WE SPEAK TO RYUICHI NISHIZAWA TO FIND OUT THE SECRET OF ITS POWER

Total Eclipse

A LASTING IMPRESSION

Sonic Wings Special

IT’S TIME TO START SAVING AGAIN

Capcom Vs SNK: Millennium Fight 2000

NIGHTMARE MATCH OF THE CENTURY?

Geometry Wars: Galaxies

A GALAXY OF BLASTING

ULTIMATE GUIDE Paradroid

BENEATH ITS SLICK PRESENTATION, GRAFTGOLD’S PARADROID IS A TEST OF SKILL, STRATEGY AND DECISION-MAKING UNDER PRESSURE. ANDREW BRAYBROOK REVIEWS HIS CEREBRAL MID-EIGHTIES SHOOTER, AND THE ITERATIONS THAT WERE RELEASED IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED

ARCADE ATTACK

Your monthly guide to everything happening in the homebrew scene

BERND BUCHEGGER (AKA PANTHER)

The Cosmos Designs coder explains why his game, Outrage, took so long to appear

MEGA-CD MEMORIES

The team revisit Sega’s attempt to embrace CD-ROM technology

THE NOSTALGIA KING

Darren Browne collects games that have long stuck in his mind

MAME SCROLLING

Paul Drury explores the outer limits

STAR LETTER

WIN! Every month, one lucky writer-in will receive

END GAME

WILD WOODY

CD-ROM THE EARLY YEARS

SINCE THE EARLY DAYS OF FLOPPIES AND CARTRIDGES, ART HAD TO BE COMPRESSED, MUSIC WAS CUT, A LOVE STORY HAD TO FIT IN EIGHT LINES OF TEXT. THE CD-ROM CHANGED ALL THAT FOR ON-LINE ENTERTAINMENT AND LATER DEVELOPERS WORDS BY DAMIANO GERLI

STRIKER OCCULTA LAPIS

INSIDE THE FIRST INTERACTIVE COMIC BOOK MADE IN ITALY

THE COMMODORE CDTV

REVISITING THE FIRST COMPUTER WITH A CD-ROM READER

LOST IN TRAN SLATION

How the rest of the world experienced your fav ourite games

THE MAKING OF KICK OF 2

RIVAL FOOTBALL GAMES APPEARED TO MEET THEIR MATCH WHEN KICK OFF WAS RELEASED IN 1989 BUT THEN DEVELOPER DINO DINI WENT ONE BETTER WITH A BLISTERING SEQUEL THAT HIT THE BACK OF THE NET FOR SCORES OF FANS

CONVERSION CAPERS

WILL THESE VERSIONS HAVE YOU DRIBBLING?

TOP TEN LEGAUE

GOALS DON’T COME FREELY IN KICK OFF 2

TOP 25 LIGHTGUN GAMES

WITH ARCADES ON THEIR LAST LEGS AND MODERN TELEVISIONS PREVENTING THE TECHNOLOGY FROM FUNCTIONING, IT’S FAIR TO SAY THE LIGHTGUN GAME IS ONE OF THE MOST ENDANGERED VIDEOGAME GENRES. THANKFULLY, THERE ARE PLENTY OF CLASSICS STILL WORTH A SHOT…

DualShock

» MANUFACTURER: PlayStation » YEAR: 1997 » COST:

THE MAKING OF: DONKEY KONG LAND

DONKEY KONG COUNTRY ON THE GAME BOY? ARE YOU BANANAS?! RETRO GAMER SPEAKS TO LEAD PROGRAMMER PAUL MACHACEK AND MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGNER GRAEME NORGATE ON THE GORILLA-SIZED TASK OF BRINGING THE TITLE THAT PUSHED THE SNES TO ITS LIMITS TO THE SMALL SCREEN WITH DONKEY KONG LAND

FURTHER ADVENTURES

DONKEY KONG’S LIFE ON THE GAME BOY DONKEY

SUPER GAME BOY

DONKEY KONG LAND WENT BIG AND WENT HOME

THE SALES CURVE

In a male-dominated industry, businesswoman Jane Cavanagh was able to create The Sales Curve from nothing in the late-Eighties. The company became highly regarded for its impressive arcade conversions and original efforts like SWIV. The Sales Curve was built into a hugely successful multimillion-pound UK videogames company that became a plc by the mid-Nineties. How was it done?

WWF No Mercy

WWF Wrestlemania 2000 was a great

THE MAKING OF Dungeons & Dragons

WARRIORS OF THE ETERNAL SUN TM

MARVEL’S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

Modern games you’ll still be playing in years to come

Hardware Heaven Wii

Wii fact ■ The original RVL-001 model of

ANDREW SLEIGH

The name may not be familiar but you’ll know his games. Graphics artist Andrew Sleigh worked at Ocean from 1986 to 1990 and was part of the in-house team that helped turn it into one of Europe’s biggest software houses

Final Vendetta

FIRST AND LAST? LET’S HOPE NOT

*PICK OF THE MONTH

Sonic Origins