Will Wright: The Mind Behind SimCity & The Sims
How have the games of one developer, Will Wright, managed to punctuate my gaming experiences so decisively over the past 40 years? I realised quite…
How have the games of one developer, Will Wright, managed to punctuate my gaming experiences so decisively over the past 40 years? I realised quite…
My favourite Doctor Who video game is Dalek Attack – it’s simple, and unpretentious. But like every other Doctor Who game, it’s also not very…
BASIC was first released in 1964, making the programming language an incredible 60 years old. For me, that is pretty mind-blowing, as it means BASIC…
In 2013, I interviewed Dean Wilkinson, a video game scriptwriter who has worked with Stephen Fry and Matt Berry. At some point in the intervening…
Sony’s 1996 PlayStation Expo proved to a wider audience to see that big games were coming in the console’s second year. 1996 had already been…
I’ve lost count of the number of retro consoles I own. Sure, I have a nice selection of original hardware, but it is what we…
Get to know the team: Bhav the Hylian, writer at Retro Gamer Base, talks Nintendo, Tetris, and Zelda with John Bowe. Nintendo fans are a…
Copying Commodore 64 cassettes to my PC pretty much covers what I’ve been doing over the past few months. A cursory glance at my C64…
The Sega Mega Drive has dozens of platformers in its library. While many of them are charming in their own ways, some have survived the…
The recent chat with John Bowe about my love of retro games and my memories of the depths of the 8-bit world led me to…
John Bowe decides to ask editor Christian Cawley why he still loves those old video games like Turrican. A couple of years ago I sat…
These Space Invaders sequels may change how you look at the original video game series. Typing ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘sequel’ in the same sentence feels…
There are some mighty games on Sony’s grey box, but there are also horrors better left to the dark pages of gaming history. This list…
Street Fighter Alpha’s versus King of Fighters. We’ve all been through them and made our judgements, but never like this before. Last time out I…
The PlayStation has an impressive amount of platformers in its library. While many iconic games are in the genre, there are also plenty of stinkers….