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If the Eighties was when our hobby was

THE RETROBATES

WHAT GAME DEFINED THE NINETIES FOR YOU?

MARCH OF THE MINIS

What does the year ahead have in store for Quarter Arcades?

SEGA RETRO REVEALS

» [PC] The new Jet Set Radio is

SUGARY SWEET

» Is that Batman Group’s long-awaited Vespertino we

Love from Wii to U

Ip opped up on the This Week In

Seismic shifts

The current generation of games consoles is the first

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Robert Neal on the origins of his essential hardware website

GREATEST GAMES

WE’RE CELEBRATING HISTORY’S MOST IMPORTANT GAMES – AND WE NEED YOUR HELP

NEWS JUNE 2007

JUNE 2007 – We’re having something of a

THE LATEST NEWS FROM JUNE 2007

» [PlayStation 2] Hey, Lara never had that

CHARTS JUNE 2007

Asteroids

IT ROCKS

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles IV: Turtles In Time

A FLING YOU NEVER GET OVER

Silent Scope

IT’S A LONG SHOT, BUT IT’S WORTH TAKING

Advance Wars: Dual Strike

DOUBLE THE SCREENS, DOUBLE THE FUN

A DECADE OF DEFINITIVE GAMES!

THE NINETIES SAW GAMING GO THROUGH A HUGE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE THAT MAY NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. IT LED TO INNOVATION, EXCITING NEW IDEAS AND THE GENERAL EXPANSION OF THE VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY. JOIN US AS WE REVISIT THIS INCREDIBLE DECADE AND THE MANY HIT GAMES IT SPAWNED

HARDWARE HEAVEN: ODYSSEY

ESSENTIAL GAME Tennis This is a simple rendition of

THE RETRO GAMER GUIDE TO: BRØDERBUND

FOUNDED IN 1980, BRØDERBUND HELPED DEFINE COMPUTER GAMING WITH GROUNDBREAKING TITLES SUCH AS CHOPLIF TER, LODE RUNNER AND PRINCE OF PERSIA. RETRO GAMER LOOKS BACK AT THE CELEBRATED PUBLISHER’S GREATEST HITS

Robotron: 2084

» PLATFORM: ARCADE » RELEASED: 1982 » DEVELOPER: VID KIDZ

RICK DRNGERDUS

ARMED WITH A SIX-SHOOTER, SOME DYNAMITE, A POINTY STICK AND A CHEESY GRIN, RICK DANGEROUS WAS CORE DESIGN’S ORIGINAL TOMB RAIDER. JOIN US AS WE RISK LIFE AND LIMB TO EXPLORE THE CURIOUS APPEAL OF THIS PERILOUS PLATFORMER

DEVELOPER Q&A

THE GAME’S CO-CREATOR TERRY LLOYD ANSWERS OUR QUESTIONS

LEAP OF FAITH

HOW TO OVERCOME THE GAME’S TRICKIEST TEST

THE MAKING OF VECTORMAN

RELEASED EXCLUSIVELY IN NORTH AMERICA IN LATE- 1996 ON THE MEGA DRIVE, VECTORMAN 2 IS AN ENIGMA. INFORMATION ON THE GAME HAS BEEN SCANT AND RIFE WITH HEARSAY FOR DECADES, BUT RETRO GAMER FINALLY UNCOVERS THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THIS 16-BIT CULT FAVOURITE THAT MANAGED TO RECAPTURE ITS PREDECESSOR’S SPIRIT, DESPITE A TIGHT DEADLINE

Elfmania

Looking back at one Finnish team’s attempt to bring arcade fighting to Commodore’s capable computer

THE MAKING OF: BUDOKAN: THE MARTIAL SPIRIT

WHEN YOU THINK OF FIGHTING GAMES, STREET FIGHTER, TEKKEN OR MORTAL KOMBAT IMMEDIATELY COME TO MIND. BUT THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN GAMES THAT HAVE TAUGHT US THAT ON-SCREEN FIGHTING DOES NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TO INVOLVE FIREBALLS AND RIPPED-OUT SPINES. GAMES LIKE BUDOKAN: THE MARTIAL SPIRIT

THE MAKING OF DIABLO

AS ONE OF BLIZZARD’S MOST RECOGNISABLE TITLES, DIABLO II IS THE DEFINITIVE HACK ‘N’ SLASH ACTION RPG. RETRO GAMER TRAVELS INTO THE DEPTHS OF HELL TO UNCOVER HOW THE DIABLO SEQUEL BECAME ONE OF THE BIGGEST GAMES IN HISTORY

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» PLATFORM: PlayStation 2 » YEAR: 2000 » COST: £29.99 (launch), £17+ (today, boxed), £5+ (today, unboxed)

DAVID BISHOP

A trip into London in the early Eighties and a chance remark in a shop began David Bishop’s prolific career in designing, producing and marketing some very well ‐known and hugely successful videogames

Analogue Duo

THE PC ENGINE, TURBOCHARGED

Evercade Multi Game Cartridges

START YOUR 2024 WITH ABANG

Sonic Dream Team

» System: iPad, iPhone » Buy it for: Apple Arcade exclusive (£6.99 per month) » Buy it from: App Store

THE HOME BREWRS KIT

HOT TOP IC

RETROBATES MULL OVER THE SCENE’S MOST INTRIGUING ISSUES

PIC K A SIDE

Readers on who they backed in the Nineties

COLLECTOR’S CORNER

READERS TAKE US THROUGH THE RETRO KEYHOLE

MY RE TRO LIFE

PERSONAL STORIES ABOUT OUR SHARED PASSION

MAILBAG

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PUNC H-OUT!!

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