All Things Retro
“It’s like clothes. If you find something you like, you just put it on”. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, many western players would have been quite familiar with composer Yuzo Koshiro – after all, his name can be seen right on the title screens of games like Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of…
“1D Pac-Man”. Pac-Man is one of the most influential video games of all time. Not only has it generated millions of dollars in revenue since its launch, but it has spawned sequels, songs, cartoon shows, merchandise and – of course – hordes of imitators. It’s fair to say that, without Pac-Man, the video game landscape…
Demo available now. While many gamers will have fond memories of Capcom’s X-Men: Children of the Atom and X-Men Vs Street Fighter arcade titles, Konami’s 1992 coin-op has plenty of fans. A side-scrolling brawler released at a point when Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game was still fresh in people’s memories, X-Men was sadly…
Fractal161 and P1xelAndy did it within a day of each other. Just before Christmas, 13-year-old Willis Gibson – also known as Blue Scuti – became the first person to “beat” the 1989 NES version of Tetris, one of the most popular variants of the game on the competitive circuit. Gibson – who dedicated the achievement…
“The deepest crunch development I’ve ever done”. ‘Creative’ software has a long and proud history in the world of computers and gaming. From the popular Protracker software on the Amiga to the silly fun of Mario Paint on SNES, there have always been options for players to put the controller down and express themselves digitally….
“It was basically an escalation of the ‘cover-mounted gift wars’ of the period”. Picture the scene. It’s the early 1990s, the internet hasn’t taken over the world yet, and you’ve just wandered into your local newsagents to purchase a video game magazine. Assembled on the shelf in front of you is a plethora of competing…
The Secret of Monkey Island developed by Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts) was originally released in 1990 and created by now industry legends Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman. It was a game that has lived on the hearts of many with its fantastic pirate charm. Well if you remember that fine game, you’ll be…
“I felt this anger against the entire industry. You’re all just making the same old shit”. “What are you talking about? Are you trying to insinuate that I flooded a hotel room? That’s outrageous!” bellows Hifumi Kouno, in pseudo-offence that gives way to raucous laughter which infects everyone in the room. We’re at the Nude…
The console that made Xbox. While the original Xbox introduced us to Xbox Live, Microsoft’s successor console perfected it, giving us prominent online features in almost all of its games. With Xbox Live came an absolute barrage of great first and third-person shooters, but mixed in among the juggernauts of headshot no-scope triple kills were…
Adam Gibson died on December 14th, aged just 39. 13-year-old Willis Gibson made headlines this week by becoming the first person to ‘beat’ Tetris on the NES – 34 years after it was first released. Gibson – who goes by the name Blue Scuti and has been playing the game since he was 11 –…