Retro: Ikari Warriors on the Amstrad CPC
Romp through the jungle in true Rambo style in this run-and-gun classic. Just remember that you’re doing it all for the freedom of the people you protect.
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Gaming
Waiting for the Tape to Load (and Other Life Lessons)
80s games didn’t just require super-human hand-eye coordination, they also required great patience as you waited for them to load (or fail to load) off tape. What did you do to fill those childhood minutes?
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Day of Defeat: The Original – Still Going Strong
Back at the turn of the millennium WW2 first person shooters didn’t get much better than DOD. Thirteen years later it can still pull a (modest) crowd.
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NES Classic Edition: A Bit More News and a New Trailer
If you’re interested in the NES Classic or just like backing music that sounds like 80s pop music then you’d best watch this new trailer from Nintendo.
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Harvey Headbanger – Amstrad CPC
Do you like drinking cocktails and barging into people? Yes? Well you should probably save that kind of behaviour for the 8 bit world of Harvey Headbanger.
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Classic Joysticks – The Quickshot 2 Turbo
Gamers in the 80s didn’t need to worry about repeatedly pressing fire, the Quickshot 2 Turbo did it for them. We take a look at the Spectravideo’s landmark joystick.
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Wireless Control for Your Vintage NES
Controller wires look messy, can spill drinks and even trip people up. If you’re not a hard-core purist and own a NES then these worries could be a thing of the past.
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The Commercialisation of Retro Gaming
Retro gaming using emulators is quick and easy but in most cases it also breaks copyright law. We tell you how you can keep it legal by keeping it real.
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Electric Dreams, Tomytronic’s 3D Sky Attack
In the 80s virtual reality became an actual reality (well sort of) thanks to Tomytronic’s 3D electronic games. We’ve got our hands on 3D Sky Attack and we’re taking it for a spin.
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Building a Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Machine – Part 3 Adding Games
We’ve been enjoying our Raspberry Pi retro games machine and now we’re ready to load up all our old favourite games, we just need the ROMs, where can we get them?…Woah there, not so fast, there’s a problem.
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