Retro Gamer

If, like me, you're a bloke in your 30s, the chances are you look back on the halcyon days of the 80s and early 90s as the very pinnacle of computer gaming. Sure, the graphics may have been rubbish, sound primitive and the machines have less memory than an amnesiac goldfish, but the game play was so imaginative, so well thought out and addictive that they knocked most of today's flashy, but soulless games out of the arena. If that's the way you feel, then Retro Gamer is likely to be right up your street- a magazine dedicated to old games and old gaming machines. One of Retro Gamer's big strengths is its depth of coverage. It essentially defines ...  Read the complete review

You may be wondering what a Retro Gamer magazine can do. After all, what are they going to do, review old games? But it is so much more, and is now one of my many monthly gaming magazines. It all started last August when I noticed it, right next to the EDGE magazine, both mentioning on the front cover, Monkey Island, one of the few games I actually play that is old. Apart from Monkey Island and Sonic, my retro gaming life has been short, and yet I always find something to interest me, such as games I have heard of, or old games that are making a Retro comeback. God knows how they do it, but even for this 16 year old, it is a bloody good ...  Read the complete review