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It has taken me 48 years to realise

RETURN OF THE DEAD

We speak to the team that revived The House Of The Dead

EVERCADE INDIE LOVE

Blaze has announced a new Game Of The

SCREENS OF RAGE

Movie website Deadline recently broke the news of

Lunchtime

COLUMN Who is Iain Lee? Iain Lee is

Pure and simple

COLUMN Who is Paul Rose? Paul is probably

Neil Thomas

The popular YouTuber branches out into the exhibition business with The Cave

BACK TO THE NOUGHTIES

AUGUST 2005 – How do you quickly quell

THE LATEST NEWS FROM AUGUST 2005

[Xbox] Batman uses fear to defeat his foes.

CHARTS

AUGUST 2005

Dig Dug II

THAT SINKING FEELING

THE EVOLUTION OF WIPEOUT

AFTER MAKING GAMING HIP IN THE MID-NINETIES, THE FUTURISTIC PSYGNOSIS RACER WIPEOUT WENT ON TO INSPIREA LONG LINE OF POPULAR FOLLOW-UPS. KEY CREATIVES, INCLUDING NICKY PLACE, ROB FRANCIS AND KARL JONES EXPLAIN HOW THE LONG-RUNNING SERIES KEPT ITS COOL

Rescue Mission

EYES IN THE SKY

Be Ball

GOLDEN BALLS

THE MAKING OF SUPER CARS II

MAGNETIC FIELDS’ SEQUEL BLASTED ON TO THE AMIGA AND RACED TO THE HEARTS OF MANY A PLAYER SO RETRO GAMER THOUGHT IT WAS TIME TO PULL UP ALONGSIDE SHAUN SOUTHERN AND ANDREW MORRIS TO SEE HOW IT BECAME A WINNING GAME

Tempest 2000

PURE MINTER MAGIC

THE MAKING OF RED FACTION

RED FACTION BROKE NEW GROUND BY ACCOMPLISHING SOMETHING VIDEOGAMES STILL STRUGGLE TO ACHIEVE TODAY: MEANINGFUL VIDEOGAME DESTRUCTION. RETRO GAMER SPEAKS TO LEAD DESIGNER ALAN LAWRANCE ON THE STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS OF DEVELOPING THE GAME’S REVOLUTIONARY GEO-MOD ENGINE

New Super Mario Bros

MARIO GOES MEGA

Kirby And The Forgotten Land

YOU WON’T EASILY FORGET THIS

PICK OF THE MONTH

The House Of The Dead: Remake » System:

Pac-Man Championship Edition

REINVENTING A CLASSIC

Super Cassette Vision

» MANUFACTURER: Epoch » YEAR: 1984 » COST:

THE ADVENTURES OF MAJOR HAVOC: THE PROMISED END

ATARI’S VECTOR ARCADE GEM MAJOR HAVOC HAS REMAINED INCOMPLETE FOR NEARLY FOUR DECADES. HOWEVER, THE GAME’S CREATOR, OWEN RUBIN, AND A GROUP OF PASSIONATE FANS HAVE JOINED FORCES TO CREATE THE ULTIMATE VERSION OF THE GAME, THE PROMISED END

DONKEY KONG 3

NINTENDO HAS CREATED MANY MEMORABLE VIDEOGAME HEROES: MARIO, LUIGI, LINK… STANLEY THE BUGMAN? JOIN US AS WE DISCOVER HOW THE POOR PEST CONTROLLER OUSTED MARIO FROM THE THIRD DONKEY KONG ARCADE GAME – AND NEVER WORKED IN THIS TOWN AGAIN

THE KING OF KONG 3

MEET DONKEY KONG 3’S GREATEST PLAYER GEORGE RILEY

Bucky O’Hare

» PLATFORM: NES » RELEASED: 1992 » DEVELOPER: KONAMI

THE MAKING OF PROFESSIONAL SKI SIMULATOR

CRASH MAGAZINE SAID, “THIS SIMULATION IS SO GOOD, IT’S JUST LIKE BEING ON THE SLOPES.” IF THAT’S THE CASE, SKIING MUST BE A FRUSTRATING JAUNT WHERE YOU SPEND MOST OF YOUR TIME ON YOUR BACKSIDE OR SPINNING AROUND AIMLESSLY BECAUSE THIS WAS ONE CHALLENGING GAME!

TurboVision

» PLATFORM: TurboExpress » RELEASED: 1990 » COST:

THE MAKING OF KRULLF

ON A PLANET OUTSIDE KNOWN TIME AND SPACE, WE ASK PROGRAMMER MATT HOUSEHOLDER, ARTIST JEFF LEE AND AUDIO ENGINEER DAVID THIEL ABOUT THEIR VIDEOGAME VERSION OF THE ‘SO BAD IT’S GOOD’ MOVIE, KRULL

FIDO DIDO

The forgotten mascot of the late-Eighties and Nineties who appeared on 7-Up bottles nearly had his own game. Nearly…

ULTIMATE GUIDE

BUBBLE SYMPHONY

Street Fighter Alpha 3

» PLATFORM: PLAYSTATION » RELEASED: 1998 » DEVELOPER:

TOP 25 GAME CUBE GAMES

THE GAMECUBE HAS JUST HIT ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY IN EUROPE, SO TO CELEBRATE, WE ASKED RETRO GAMER READERS TO VOTE FOR THEIR FAVOURITE GAMES. THE RESULTS ARE IN – DID YOUR FAVOURITE MAKE THE CUT?

THE NEED FOR SPEED

The team discusses futuristic racers

OFF TO THE RACES

Jon Gage’s collection will have motorheads drooling

FIGHTING FAILURES

PERSONAL STORIES ABOUT OUR SHARED PASSION

MAILBAG

HAVE YOUR SAY… SEND US A LETTER OR MAKE YOURSELF HEARD ON THE ONLINE FORUM – WWW.RETROGAMER.NET

END GAME

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