Retro Gamer magazine contents index (in progress)

[merman]

Issue 16
8 - 10 : Back to the Eighties : Richard Burton : Regular : May 1985 and Game of the Month - Shadowfire by Denton Designs/Beyond (C64/Spectrum)
12 - 15 : Retro Rated : Retro Gamer : Reviews : Gametech PocketFami, First Star's Greatest Hits (PC), Space Invaders Revolution (DS)
16 - 19 : Retro Revival : Aaron Birch : Software : The Gauntlet series
20 - 21 : Japan Happy Play Noise : Jonti Davies : Regular : Retro sports (Daihitto award - Tecmo's Sumo on the Famicom)
22 - 27 : Desert Island Disks : Paul Drury : Interview : Paul "Mr Biffo" Rose and Tim "Mr Hairs" Moore from Digitiser
30 - 36 : The Family Computer : John Szczepaniak : Hardware : The original Famicom and its Disk System (includes Famitsu's top 40)
38 - 43 : King Mario - How Nintendo Conquered America : Alicia Ashby & Geoff Hatchett : Software : The success of the NES in the US
44 - 47 : Next Level Gaming : Martyn Carroll? : Regular : The Amstrad CPC128 and its games
48 - 55 : Indiana Jones and the Gaming Ark : Robert Mellor : Software : Indy's adventures in videogames from Atari 2600 to PC
56 - 59 : Gilsoft - The Welsh Wizards : Chris Wild : Company profile : Interview with the people behind The Quill adventure creation software
60 - 66 : A Brief History of Videogames : Spanner : Hardware : The early years of videogaming *Part 1 of 3*
68 - 71 : Arcade Hunt : Retro Gamer : Arcade : Tracking down arcades that still have retro games
72 - 77 : Shadowrun : John Szczepaniak : Software : How the FASA RPG transferred to the screen
78 - 79 : Killer Apps : Simon Brew : Regular : Goldeneye on the N64
80 - 81 : Games That Weren't : Frank Gasking : Regular : Daffy Duck (C64 and others), Universal Monsters (Amiga/ST), Apocalypse II (SNES)
82 - 83 : Strange Games : Per Arne Sandvik : Regular : The Chou Aniki (Super Big Brother) series
85 - 88 : Feel the Force : Retro Gamer : Magazine feature : Unseen pages of the unpublished Nintendo Force magazine (Probotector review)
92 - 93 : Retro Scene : Retro Gamer : Regular : Games, emulators and the second CGE UK
94 - 95 : Cover Tapes : Ashley Day : Music feature : Covers of famous game music, and an interview with Brazillian band MegaDriver
96 - 97 : High Score : Paul Drury : Regular : The controversy around Roy Shildt's Missile Command record
99 : Retro Auction Watch : Richard Burton : Regular : The haunted NES, the BBC Domesday Project and The Great Giana Sisters
112 : ZX-Treme : ? : Spoof advert : Regular : "Keeping your ZX81 at the cutting edge"
114 : Endgame : Retro Gamer : End game sequence : Gryzor on the Amstrad CPC

[merman]

Issue 17
8 - 9 : E3 Diary : Alicia Ashby : Event report : E3 2005 and the "History of videogames" exhibit
10 - 11 : Back to the Eighties : Richard Burton : Regular : June 1985
12 - 14 : Retro Rated : Retro Gamer : Reviews : Mortal Kombat TV Game (Jakks Pacific), Sensible Soccer Plus (Radica)
16 - 17 : Retro Revival : Retro Gamer : Regular : Duke Nukem
18 - 19 : Japan Happy Play Noise : Jonti Davies : Regular : Goemon series (Daihitto award - Panel De Pon for Super Famicom)
20 - 24 : Desert Island Disks : Paul Drury : Interview : Paul Carruthers, creator of Xor and Archipelagos
26 - 33 : Sega Game Gear : Damien Kapa : Hardware : A look back at Sega's portable games machine
36 - 42 : Next Level Gaming : Aaron Birch : Hardware : The Sega Mega CD (and how to emualte it)
44 - 51 : The Old Skool : Mark Green : Interview : Talking to Dave Reidy and Keith Warrnington about Skooldaze and Bak To Skool
52 - 54 : Global Gaming : John Szczepaniak : Regular : Games and consoles from The Netherlands
56 - 61 : Play To Win : Adam Dawes : Software : Games that offered REAL CASH PRIZES
62 - 71 : A Brief History of Videogames : Spanner : Hardware : The growth in home consoles during the 1970s
72 - 73 : Killer Apps : Simon Brew : Regular : Sonic the Hedgehog on the Mega Drive
74 - 75 : Games That Weren't : Frank Gasking : Regular : Combat Two (Atari 2600), Putty Squad (Gameboy Colour), Pac-In-Time (Game Gear)
76 - 77 : Strange Games : Per Arne Sandvik : Regular : Health-related games like Bronkie (SNES)
78 - 79 : High Score : Paul Drury : Regular : Perry Rodgers and Mario Bros
80 - 83 : Retro Scene : Retro Gamer : Regular : Homebrew reviews and announcing the Def Tribute to ZZAP 64
91 : Retro Auction Watch : Richard Burton : Regular : Commodore User issue 0 and "naughty" Spectrum tapes
96 : Build your own Commodore 64 : ? : Spoof advert : Issue 1 comes complete with your first function key...
98 : Endgame : Retro Gamer : End game sequence : Sonic CD (Mega CD)

[merman]

Issue 18 - WITH FREE "DEF TRIBUTE TO ZZAP 64"
8 - 9 : Back to the Eighties : Richard Burton : Regular : July 1985
10 - 12 : Retro Rated : Retro Gamer : Reviews : Bomberman Hardball (PS2), Bomberman DS, EA Sports TV Game (Jakks Pacific)
14 - 15 : Mobile Reviews : Retro Gamer : Reviews : Lemmings, Bubble Bobble and Tomb Raider - The Osiris Codex
16 - 21 : Desert Island Disks : Paul Drury : Interview : Tim Skelly, pioneer of vector graphics gaming
24 - 31 : Atari Lynx Portable Colour Entertainment System : Peter Latimer : Hardware : The battery-guzzling colour portable (and interview with homebrewer Carl Forhan)
32 - 35 : Virtually Alive : Kim Wild : Software : Interview with David Crane about Little Computer People
36 - 39 : Next Level Gaming : Aaron Birch : Hardware : Sega's Mega Drive add-on "mushroom", the 32X
40 - 43 : Robocop - The future of film licenses : Robert Mellor : Software : Ocean's best-selling conversion of the film
45 - 51 : Import Gaming : John Szczepaniak : Hardware : Modifying consoles (and great import-only games)
54 - 58 : Legend of the Last Ninja : Retro Gamer : Software : Interviews with designer Mark Cale and programmer John Twiddy
60 - 69 : A Brief History of Videogames : Spanner : Hardware : From the 1983 crash to the launch of the Playstation *part 3 of 3*
70 - 71 : Games That Weren't : Frank Gasking : Regular : Cookie (BBC), Sanxion (GBA), Fire & Ice (Mega Drive/Master System)
72 - 73 : Strange Games : Per Arne Sandvik : Regular : Conversions of popular board games
74 - 75 : High Score : Paul Drury : Regular : Paul Dean, the world's premier Spy Hunter
78 - 79 : Retro Scene : Retro Gamer : Regular : Homebrew reviews and CGEUK news
80 - 81 : A Stitch in Time : Paul Drury : Interview : Faye Hampshire's cross-stitch designs inspired by gaming
87 : Retro Auction Watch : Richard Burton : Regular : The Vectrex and its desirable 3D games
88 - 89 : Retro Auction Watch EXTRA - CPC Uncovered : Richard Burton : Special feature : A rare Amstrad CPC prototype
96 : Pac-A-Gotchi : ? : Spoof advert : Batteries not included...
98 : Endgame : Retro Gamer : End game sequence : Robocop on the NES

[merman]

Right, going to take a break from doing these now... might add the contents of the Your Sinclair and ZZAP 64 tributes though, but otherwise we are now up to the start of the Imagine Publishing era...

[C16]

Last week I recieved my binders for the magazine and it got me thinking that a index page would be brilliant. Then I found this thread, so I've converted the listings upto issue 18 that others have already done into a excel file. I might get time to complete the rest soon.

Anyhow, if anyone would like this spreadsheet its here ----> http://www.commodore16.com/rg.xls

[Overheat]

Any more news on this - I'd really like to see everything.

[Antiriad2097]

Any more news on this - I'd really like to see everything.

You'd best start cataloguing then...

[batman877]

Perhaps someone at RG could include a full contents database on the next DVD (i.e. LOAD 3)?

[Bland_Boy]

Issue 34

12-14 : The Latest News From February 1983 : Richard Burton : Back To The Eighties : Various : Regular Staple :
16-17 : Alien VS Predator : John Szczepaniak : Retro Revival : Arcade : Regular Staple: *Retro Gamer does not condone the downloading of
ROMS. :
18-23 : Last Ninja : uncredited : Making Of : Various :
24-25 : Donkey Kong Country : Uncredited : The Classic Game : SNES : Regular Staple :
26 : Everything In Prehistoric Isle In 1930 : uncredited : Boss Rush : Arcade : Looks at the end-level bosses of Prehistoric Isle. :
28 : Metal Slug 1st Mission : John Szczepaniak : Cheap As Chips : Neo-Geo Pocket : Chooses something to convince you to by on-the-cheap. :
30-33 : Dungeon Master : Damien McFerran : Making Of : Atari ST :
34-35 : Ranger-X : John Szczepaniak : Retro Revival : Mega Drive :
36-41 : Gaming Illuminati part 1/2 : John Szczepaniak : John Szczepaniak's : Various : John goes under-cover to find the rarest of the rare
in gaming and interviews people who have this stuff locked-away.
42-43 : Zillion : uncredited : The Classic Game : Master System : Regular Staple :
44-49 : Sega Saturn : uncredited : Retroinspection : Sega Saturn : Regular Staple :
50-51 : Perfect Ten Games : uncredited : Perfect Ten : Sega Saturn : Regular Staple : usually appears near the end of Retroinspections. :
52-53 : and the rest... : uncredited : and the rest... : Sega Saturn : Regular Staple : usually appears near the end of Retroinspections. :
54-57 : Mega Deals : Matthew Cockburn : GDG In Focus : Sega CD : Investigation into what is involved in retro-publishing. :
58-61 : The Secret Of Monkey Island : Kim Wild : Making Of : Various : Regular Staple : Chats with Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman! :
62-63 : Castle Of Illusion : Darran Jones : Retro Revival : Mega Drive : Regular Staple:
64-69 : Xevious : Stuart Campbell : The Definitive : Various : Regular Staple :
70-73 : Panzer Dragoon Saga : uncredited : Why You Must Play! : Sega Saturn : Regular Staple :
74-77 : Head Over Heels : uncredited : Making Of : Various : Talks with creators of Head Over Heels :
78-81 : Stuart Fotheringham : uncredited : Desert Island Disks : Various : Regular Staple :
82-87 : Retro Rated : Various : Retro Rated : Various : Looks at new Retro-Games being released, this particular one features a Top-10
Retro-Remakes list... The list was also featured on "remakes.org".
88-89 : Double Dragon Brothers In Arms : Darran Jones : Retro Revival : Arcade : Regular Staple :
90-95 : Bargain Hunt : uncredited : Retro Price Listings : Various : Lists of various retro consoles and games and the prices they went for
recently.
96-99 : Retro Scene : uncredited : Community & Home-Brew Retro : Various : Seems to have reviews and ratings of games and also other news
on the community and retro scene.
100-102 : The Retro Forum : Forum Users and uncredited : Letters : Various : Letters and quotes from forum-users and readers of Retro Gamer
Magazine.
102 : Contact Information for Retro Gamer Magazine :
108-109 : Next Issues Preview :
114 : R-Type II : uncredited : END/GAME :

[skumkantarell]

Awesome initiative to produce a listing of the mag contents. Has someone done anything similar for the coverdisks of the early issues? Failing that, a "ls -lR" of the disc from issue 5 would be very helpful. Anyone? Thanks!

[retrocrazyuk]

Has retrogamer ever done a feature on the Neogeo AES ???
I have looked through the DVD issues of the mag and the later paper copies i have (i dont have them all though) and even in the Hardware Collecters Guide bookazine and cant find anything anywhere???
Thanks

[Rory Milne]

Has retrogamer ever done a feature on the Neogeo AES ???

Think issue 70 is the one you're after.

[retrocrazyuk]

Thanks Rory, i have dug out my hard copy and have found the article
Exactly what i was after and exactly why it would be really handy if there was a searchable database of articles