Retro Gamer Issue 44

[Damo]

As some of you may already know I write for Retro Gamer magazine in the UK, so each month I'll be posting a summary of what's in the latest issue. If you're interested in buying a copy go here.



Complete History DOOM
Prepare to get scared senseless as Retro Gamer looks back at one of gaming's most terrifying franchises

Classic Game
Spy Hunter
Move over James Bond, because we've found a spy theme tune that's even better than yours

The Making of…
Rescue on Fractalus
Find out how a failed Star Wars pitch turned into a monstrous hit and helped launch LucasArts

Conversion Capers
Green Beret
It's a well known arcade hit from the Eighties, but how was it converted to the Speccy? Retro Gamer investigates

Run N Gun Special
There's an insane number of classic run n gun titles available, but which ones are worth your actual time? Retro Gamer has the answers

The Making of…
Populous
It's one of Bullfrog's most popular games and helped launch a brand new genre: the god sim. Retro Gamer talks to its creators and finds out how it all began

Retroinspection
Master System
Nintendo's NES may have dominated the 8-bit market, but Sega wasn't willing to go down without a fight.

The Making of…
James Pond trilogy
Prepare for plenty of bad puns as Retro Gamer investigates the puntastic James Pond trilogy

Desert Island Disks
Rob Fulop
From creating Atari coin-op conversions for the Atari 2600 to creating desktop cats and dogs. Meet Rob Fulop

And much much more including
Collector's Corner
Scuba Dive
Chiki Chiki Boys
Yume Penguin Monogatari
Lucky & Wild
A Nightmare on Elm Street
ET
Fort Apocalypse
Magic Mushrooms

[jackaroo]

I will probably buy this when i go back to england at the end of the month. I love retro games so id love a mag completly focusing on them. I get the Games TM Multiformat mag and i always enjoy the retro section. So i will most likely get this when i go back.

[Spore]

I'll give you a hug if you scan that list of run n' guns :(

[SKTTR]

Cool mag. I had many of those games.

Spy Hunter, which was basically a destruction derby game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLtcPj5o9T4
But there was a much better, but lesser known one before that:
Burnin' Rubber and its sequel Bumpin' Buggies
http://www.64er.de/phpseiten/spieled...?filnummer=263
http://www.64er.de/phpseiten/spieled...?filnummer=818

Green Beret was a banned game in Germany, so everyone in Germany had a copy of it. It was a great action game at that time, Contra-like. No wonder, it's a Konami game from 1985.

James Pond (SNES) is just the generic boring platformer, even when it was new. I played one of its games on the SNES: Operation Starfi5h. I think it was the worst game in the series, but the other Pond games are not much better either. You can beat the whole James Pond 2 (MD) in 1 minute and 8 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sKI3o535s0 and Starfi5h was unbeatable. Let me just forget this thing existed. 1 Star(s)


The articles about Doom, Populous, Rescue on Fractalus, the run & guns and the Master System would be interesting. Scan it

[DEMON212]

Originally Posted by Damo

As some of you may already know I write for Retro Gamer magazine in the UK, so each month I'll be posting a summary of what's in the latest issue. If you're interested in buying a copy go here.



Complete History DOOM
Prepare to get scared senseless as Retro Gamer looks back at one of gaming's most terrifying franchises

Classic Game
Spy Hunter
Move over James Bond, because we've found a spy theme tune that's even better than yours

The Making of…
Rescue on Fractalus
Find out how a failed Star Wars pitch turned into a monstrous hit and helped launch LucasArts

Conversion Capers
Green Beret
It's a well known arcade hit from the Eighties, but how was it converted to the Speccy? Retro Gamer investigates

Run N Gun Special
There's an insane number of classic run n gun titles available, but which ones are worth your actual time? Retro Gamer has the answers

The Making of…
Populous
It's one of Bullfrog's most popular games and helped launch a brand new genre: the god sim. Retro Gamer talks to its creators and finds out how it all began

Retroinspection
Master System
Nintendo's NES may have dominated the 8-bit market, but Sega wasn't willing to go down without a fight.

The Making of…
James Pond trilogy
Prepare for plenty of bad puns as Retro Gamer investigates the puntastic James Pond trilogy

Desert Island Disks
Rob Fulop
From creating Atari coin-op conversions for the Atari 2600 to creating desktop cats and dogs. Meet Rob Fulop

And much much more including
Collector's Corner
Scuba Dive
Chiki Chiki Boys
Yume Penguin Monogatari
Lucky & Wild
A Nightmare on Elm Street
ET
Fort Apocalypse
Magic Mushrooms

You write for them? Cool.

Bought issue 1 and the disc never worked even though we had the right specs, so we just gave up buying it

Shame, that first issue had some right crackers on it

[neuzd]

It's publishewd also in Italy.
Next time I see a copy I'm watching if there are translated articles.

[Damo]

I'm not gonna scan it! Buy a copy you lazy sods! :P

[SKTTR]

Is it available in Germany?

[Shortay]

I might buy this for a good bit of game reading

[SegaFan]

I used to read Retro Gamer regularly back when it was with Live Publishing, I have every issue of the original magazine (including issue 1, which is quite rare I believe). Then with the new publisher I started to get tired of it, I think it was nothing against the magazine but I got tired of reading games magazines in general so I stopped buying it. But I think I might pick this issue up seeing what's in it, you have successfully tempted me.