Retro Console News, Arcades, Classic Games And More
Loved the Nintendo 64, classic arcades, Amigas, ZX Spectrum or the classic games of eras past? Retro is the spot for all the news, features and videos you’ll love.
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I Miss Apple’s Best iPod
Of all the portable music players Apple has released over the past 20 years, the original iPod shuffle remains my favourite. It wasn’t my first iPod, and 16 years after its debut I’ve owned countless iterations of the iPhone, but I loved the shuffle for its basic design and functionality, not in spite of them.
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2007 Changed Everything For Video Games
I’ve written a few stories about “the golden years” and their oversized imprint on gamers, developers, publishers and the industry around them. But if we’re going to talk about years that made an impact, it would be deeply unfair not to recognise the astonishingly monumental effects of 2007 not just on that era of video…
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Let’s Talk Fields Of Glory, A Forgotten RTS Pioneer
When people hail the pioneering classics of the RTS genre, they go through a list of usual suspects. Games like Cytron Masters, Dune II, Command & Conquer, Sega’s Herzog Zwei…but there’s one I don’t think ever gets enough due, and that’s Spectrum Holobyte’s Fields of Glory.
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How A Dark Time-Travelling Fantasy Game Became the Original Fallout
The end of the world was both darker and more humorous than anyone could have imagined, and in the original Fallout, released for the PC in 1997, gamers got to experience the apocalypse firsthand. The iconic, “War, war never changes,” introduction set the somber mood, which was written, strangely enough, during an episode of The…