RETRO GAMES

Mercenary

Adventures in scumbaggery, not with a reader but our own team. (We’re awful)
09-01-17 14,221 0 comments
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Burning Rangers

Sonic Team takes a look at the Saturn’s limitations and decides to systematically smash them.
22-11-16 15,969 0 comments
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Katamari Damacy

If there’s one thing that we can be truly thankful for, it’s the fact that gaming enjoys – by and large – a global market now
17-11-16 10,315 0 comments
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Bandana City

How good is the other side of that C64 head alignment tape? Let’s find out…
06-09-16 11,317 2 comments
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Rasterscan

Retrobate Mark Howlett looks back at Mastertronic’s arcade adventure
24-05-16 6,455 0 comments
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Popeye

A cartoon caper that does an admirable job of representing its source material
26-04-16 9,632 3 comments
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Syphon Filter

There’s a reason that nobody remembers Eidetic as “the Bubsy 3D guys” – and that’s because they did something far more impressive…
24-08-15 13,392 3 comments
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Headhunter

Arriving in the wake of the late Nineties stealth boom, Headhunter was one of the last hurrahs for the Dreamcast. Find out if it lived up to expectations…
11-02-15 14,248 0 comments
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Thanatos

Johnny Marr recalls how great it felt to take control of a proper fire-breathing dragon.
23-09-14 9,497 0 comments
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Bureaucracy

Douglas Adams’ painfully satirical text adventure has its forms rubber-stamped by Retrobate ncf1.
04-08-14 9,698 0 comments
FUTURE CLASSIC

The Last Of Us

Why Naughty Dog’s epic game is probably the best you’ll ever play. Warning, spoilers included.
08-07-14 9,916 4 comments
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Bimbo

Given the time of year, here’s a treat: a game about a bunny by a man named Easter.
17-04-14 10,921 1 comments
FUTURE CLASSIC

Ico

We take a look at one of the most enchanting games you’re ever likely to play.
18-02-14 14,666 3 comments
FUTURE CLASSIC

Metroid Prime

Discover how Retro Studios turned Metroid Prime into one of the best first-person adventures of all time.
30-01-14 8,762 0 comments
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Shenmue

Was Yu Suzuki’s expensive epic worth the hype? Ryan McNeilly thinks so.
22-01-14 11,050 1 comments
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Alien 8

Ultimate made superb isometric adventure games on the Amstrad. Here’s one of the best.
02-01-14 11,002 0 comments
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Jaws

Another terrible game from LJN based on a popular film licence.
23-12-13 10,684 3 comments
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La Abadia del Crimen

Relatively unknown, this fantastic Spanish game from Opera Software and the genius of Paco Menendez recreates in a masterful way the novel by Umberto Eco "The Name of the Rose" pushing the Amstrad CPC to its limit…
29-07-13 10,681 1 comments
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Clock Tower

This game is such a mis-match of nonesense and awesome I’m really not sure if I love or loathe it.
20-06-13 7,241 0 comments