The Missing Retro Gamer features

[merman]

Yeah, I don't know what I was on about there. This month's issue has arrived and made me look a tool, with its big Kick Off feature, and advert for next month's Daley piece. That thread still has some good ideas though; spors games, on the whole, are massively overlooked in RG.

You did not look like a tool, the Daley article is something I pitched last year and talked about on the forum. My recent ill health caused a delay, meaning it went ahead in time for the Olympics.

[resident paul]

I don't know if there a TI 99/4a review & it's MBX feature?

[BennyTheGreek]

Spectrum rom cartidges

More foreign gaming scenes (excuse the term...maybe non uk scenes would be more appropriate)

More Atari ST coverage....great machine - but it was quickly forgotten in our area when the amiga arrived....

More MSX coverage

Feature on `I didnt think they could do that on that console/computer` might get technical, but anything that pushed the system to its max....multi channel music on the speccy....gfx effects on megadrive etc....hi res gfx on zx81

Eye candy through the ages......it might look pretty but is the game any good?

[joefish]

Something on the Public Domain scene of the ST and Amiga.
There were some great games passed around in these pre-internet networks, both free and shareware (such as the awesome Cybernetix).
Then there were disk mags, tutorials, utilities, and of course all the demos.
And anyone could set themselves up as a library, students starting small businesses and making a small profit on duplication and distribution.

[webding]

Yeah, I don't know what I was on about there. This month's issue has arrived and made me look a tool, with its big Kick Off feature, and advert for next month's Daley piece. That thread still has some good ideas though; spors games, on the whole, are massively overlooked in RG.

You did not look like a tool, the Daley article is something I pitched last year and talked about on the forum. My recent ill health caused a delay, meaning it went ahead in time for the Olympics.

Well played on banging it out. So to speak.

Has there ever been an article on freebies and other guff packed in with games? Some of it may have been covered if and when the original game has been written about in any detail (I guess the Last Ninja 2 stuff may have been looked at), but there's no harm in touching on it again.

[antsbull]

Hi Darran - I would love the following interviews:

Bill Budge - all time gaming legend and theres barely anything on the web about him. I would love to hear about the stuff he did with Electronic Arts in more techie detail.

Ken Williams - Sierra Online has been completely missed by your magazine except for a brief summary around issue 30 (ish) and the Al Lowe interview - one of the most influential gaming companies ever - an in the chair with Ken Williams would be brilliant - and it could cover from their Apple/Atari days right through to the Cendant debacle. If not, do some making of's of the Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Police Quest, Kings Quest or Gabriel Knight series

John Carmack - probably impossible to get this one, but it would be brilliant to have an in depth interview with him. If not, you could always get Tom Hall to talk about Commander Keen.

[Sputryk]

Feature on Blue Byte.
Feature on the Battle Isle series.
Feature on the Settlers series.
Interviews with 'men in suits' as to why they have opted to trample over originality in favour of endless repeats, to favour photorealism over 'graphics' and generally be just utter planks.

[Gibberish Driftwood]

Has RG ever done an article about Titus Software?
They are responsible for some of the worst games ever. Superman 64, Crazy Cars, Wild Streets and lots more.
It would be really interesting to hear about Titus and how they managed to f*** up these games so horribly.

[MikeFishcake]

- Another vote for easter eggs here! I'd be interested to see those. The one I remember most is "Dux" on one of the Lotus series of games on the Amiga. ("Invade-a-load" on the C64 was a great idea too, but not exactly hidden)
- Also happy for features relating to some of the popular PD/Shareware games.
- Even though I was a rabid Amiga fanboy in the 90s, I'd quite like to see more stuff about the Atari ST; I like reading info about systems I don't know that much about.

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

Thanks for all the feedback so far, I've already commissioned several articles which will start appearing in issue 105 onwards.

[sscott]

A fuller Atari 800 feature, the last one (a couple of years ago) was a little thin I thought. Or maybe just a collector's feature, I dunno... summat.

[deadpan666]

I'd like to see a feature/features on games that are...well...a bit odder than normal! Stuff like Bishi Bashi Special, or Incredible Crisis on the Playstation...or Seaman on Dreamcast...Gregory Loses His Clock on the Speccy...Weird Dreams on Atari ST....Sheep In Space on C64...

You get the idea.....games that are a bit surreal and weird, and do things a bit differently!

[merman]

I'd like to see a feature/features on games that are...well...a bit odder than normal! Stuff like Bishi Bashi Special, or Incredible Crisis on the Playstation...or Seaman on Dreamcast...Gregory Loses His Clock on the Speccy...Weird Dreams on Atari ST....Sheep In Space on C64...

You get the idea.....games that are a bit surreal and weird, and do things a bit differently!

The Live era RG had a series on weird games, but it's something that could be revived...

[antsbull]

Another one, that echoes what others have mentioned, would be the 1990s Shareware scene - particularly Scott Miller and Apogee and the Epic Megagames crowds - the stuff they did changed the industry - and was a brilliant time to be a gamer (compared to the cookie cutter commercialism that is rampant these days).

I'd also love to see some more US centric articles, there is just so much from there that has been untouched by RetroGamer - and the industry grew so differently over there compared to the UK, so its really interesting stuff.

[merman]

Another one, that echoes what others have mentioned, would be the 1990s Shareware scene - particularly Scott Miller and Apogee and the Epic Megagames crowds - the stuff they did changed the industry - and was a brilliant time to be a gamer (compared to the cookie cutter commercialism that is rampant these days).

I'd also love to see some more US centric articles, there is just so much from there that has been untouched by RetroGamer - and the industry grew so differently over there compared to the UK, so its really interesting stuff.

As has been mentioned before, it would need someone with specialist knowledge to pitch ideas. Marty Goldberg is US-based and his Atari articles have been fantastic.