The Retro Years Reviews

In 1985 Nintendo release the NES or Nintendo Entertainment System. It was an immediate success and helped pull the game industry out of its doldrums caused by the Video Games Crash of 1983. While the NES was top dog for the remainder of the 80s, the Sega Master System was stuck behind its glory. Created and released not long after the NES, the ...

Review on Super ghouls n’ Ghost for the Snes. I first played this game on the SNES during the mid-1990s, you play as a knight called Arthur who has to try and rescue the princess, from the evil demons who have kidnapped her. The game The game starts with Arthur and his beloved princess being together, but some evil ...

(Note: I have *no* idea why the first bit of this is coming out in all lower-case. It looks fine in the DY submission box. Honestly, I haven't forgotten how to write in the time I've been away!) Those of us who started school in 1980 or so are really very lucky indeed. It's true. On the one hand, we just missed the lunacies of ...

Dear all, Before Amiga 2000 models came out, I remember the Amiga 500 were released. Most of my friends had these back in the late 80's, early 90's - but for me it was the original and the first released - the A1000. I dunno about you guys but, I can remember leaving school during the lunch break (actually acting ...

This game was made by Taito and came out in 1988. Its a one or two player adventure game. It has passwords. I think its one of the greatest games ever made. Theres two charcters in this game which are Bubble and the other Bobble. You can play either one or if playing two players both are used. Your weapon is blowing bubbles and to kill ...

See retro tv console at http://www.paramountzone.com/megajoy.htm - Advantages: fun, cool, 80's!! - Disadvantages: bad graphics

I was sitting at home, just the other day having just finished reading the complete works of Charles Dickens, and written my four hundred page thesis on "how modern day literature just doesn't compare" when I thought, its just like computer games.... So I wrote a thesis on that too... Well, not really! I ...

So when were these golden days of the past? Games just keep evolving and you think that they can't get any better. However, they do and it just seems the norm. It's only when you look back at old games that you see exactly how advanced we are today. Have you seen Cobra on the Speccie. It looks cack today but I thought it was ok when it ...

We all have very fond memories of the first games that we played as these were the ones that got us addicted to gaming. Be it in the heady old days of the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore or the age of the Master System or Nes we all reminisce about those early days of gaming. Frequently put forward opinions are that the old games were the best and ...

Computer gaming the retro years. I have been a computer user now for a great my years and for most of these years I have played games. Hell, I used to work for a computer games company, but recently I have yet to find a game that stirs up the same emotions and addiction as the games of old. There was a day not so long ago when ...

The Atari ST had some truly great games the likes of which are still seen today. My first exhibit is SimCity, the graphics by today’s standards are nothing special but the game play was great inspiring sequels on the PC which are the same game with a few extras and better graphics The next game I bring up is Xenon 2 it had ...

Being a depressed teenager in the school holidays spending days at a time in bed is not the most fun you're gonna have in your life. But I remember having a faithful friend in the shape of an Amiga, complete with Sensible World Of Soccer. The graphics weren't the best, it took a while to load, and there wasn't any commentary, but ...

Renga and Haiku, a Japanese poetic form Origin ****** Approximately in the 13th century in Japan arose the poetic form of the Haiku. Haiku championships carried out, in the 17th century in Japan so that this short poetic form increased. The roots was the rhythm 5-7-5-7-7 (syllables) the Renga, a chain poem, develops from ...

Retro gaming..the good old days..before everything got ruined by accountants, marketing people and overpaid whizzkid programmers..the days of bedroom coding, ZX spectrums screeching away as you struggled to load up the latest £2.99 wondergame from Woolies. Or is that all a load of nostagia tinged b***shit? I got my hands on a Zx Spectrum ...

Digging computers of times past out of the loft and playing them for me is always entertaining. My dad has a bit of a hobby with computers, now it's like, building Pc's for people. But in the past it was stuff like specturms, amstrads, later amigas, megadrives and stuff. It's the really old ones that get me, like the amstrad ...

I first started playing computer games on the old Atari 2600 (remember them?) in the days of such gems like Asteroids, Space Invaders,Battlezone and the like. I graduated to my current PC through a chain starting with the ZX81,Spectrum,and, eventually the Commodore 64,finishing up with 286, 486 and now my trusty PIII 800mhz processor.I ...

The Sega Mega Drive is a console that I will always remember, and because I own one, I doubt I’ll ever get tired of playing. As sad as it may seem, I tend to play on my Mega drive more than on my newest machines, but to be honest I don’t care! Games like the original street fighter are brilliant fun – especially with 2 of ...

Have you heard of the Sega Gamegear? Back in the early 90s there were three handheld consoles battling it out for your cash - Nintendos gameboy (in black and white), Atari's Lynx and the Sega Gamegear. The Lynx was by far the most powerful system - with amazing graphics and sound, the next most powerful system was the gamegear - follwed by ...

It was long ago that I played my first computer game. Infact I don't even remember how old I was, but I guess about 5 or 6. It wasn't even on a computer, it was an old arcade game that I can't for the life of me remember the name of. Of course in the many years that have passed since then I have played many for games on many more ...

We all have very fond memories of the first games that we played as these were the ones that got us addicted to gaming. Be it in the heady old days of the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore or the age of the Master System or Nes we all reminisce about those early days of gaming. Frequently put forward opinions are that the old games were the best and ...