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Yeah so... This month's Retro Gamer. 98 pages. 64 pages if you exclude ads and filler. Hmmm. As a subscriber I don't like these no text covers. I am assuming they think they are doing something creative and arty, but it just comes across as pretentious. So in a couple of years when I want to take out my old RGs and have a good read, like I do with my The Ones, C&VGs and Zapp64s I have to just guess what is in the fucking magazine. Marvellous! I think they want us all to go out and buy a second copy. I'd prefer a copy like the punter in the street has. They are better designed. Now I come to think, they probably do this as it buys time just to bang a one image down over the logo. This month's cover star is a disassembled SNES in all its blueprint 'glory'. Which seems very familiar as they have done that before. Maybe a Megadrive? Bloody pretentiousness. No TMR (Jason Kelk). My favourite section (by far). Home Brew / Public Domain. Well put together and every page packed. Even manages to feature profiles of the developers, jam competitions and all sorts. Sadly TMR has been very sick. Get well Jason! Thankfully rather than just bung in some old bollocks about the Amstrad winning the 8bit war as they did the first month, they have not put anything there. I miss TMR. I miss him answering my bloody dumb coding questions and I miss his brilliant contribution to this ailing mag. For some reason some time ago Jason got demoted from the 'Loading...' page wall of sketch images. Maybe he told Darran what a cushy number he is on. No wonder he looks so smug. Too many two page filler screenshots with Darran Jones' boat staring out at me. Don't get me wrong, I don't not like him. He might be a nice man. A very nice man. A very very nice man. I've never met him, but I tell you this! after 170+ mags and 15+ years of seeing him gazing glassily out at me from the pages of his magazine, I could probably recognise him in any crowd. One issue had so many pictures of him, his family (I assume) and assorted mates and colleagues I thought I had not bought a copy of Retro Gamer magazine at all, but one of his family's photo albums by mistake. Bloody Ian Lee. I hate him. I don't know why. It is irrational. I have never met or spoken to him. Got an air of the 'bluffer' / 'chancer' about him. Annoying tv rent-a-nodding-dog. Nick Thorpe seems to still be doing the business. I've not read his SNES piece yet, but I have always enjoyed his stuff in the past. No contribution from Graeme Mason this month, so there is that at least. The man who thought Mayhem in Monsterland was a home-brew. Lure of the Temptress is one I will get stuck into but outside of that and the aforementioned SNES section... ? Also going to read the section on Joe Blade 4. JB was one of my favourites. I know it is very simple but I enjoy it none-the-less. David Jones's Knight Tyme gets a feature. I spoke to him once about his work, seems like a very nice bloke so I'll be devouring that section. Magazine just seems to be drifting... This month there is some stuff for me (4 bits). Last couple of months very little. I don't read them cover to cover like I used to. None of the sections have not been featured in other magazines. I suppose there is nothing more retro than recycling features from old magazines and I don't have a problem with that, but occasionally it feels like they're just 'phoning it in.' I've been a subscriber for many years, on and off, and I got every issue of the original magazine, before it was rebooted, with better layout and better quality paper, granted, so I've earnt my right to say my bit, but maybe I will stop now. Subscribing that is. I don't know. They had that clown Kizza/The Laird/* Insert all known socks here * working on the mag for years. He was getting paid by them. He knows nothing. How can I trust a magazine that published anything that arsehole put together ? Is this a rant ? Am I wrong ? What do others think of Retro Gamer these days?
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Hello everyone, just a quick heads up about an interesting article published in the latest issue of Retro Gamer. It is an article about the making of Utopia. There is a candid interview with Don Laglow and some useful playing tips (see pics). Best wishes and enjoy!
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My retro nook I designed in my garage last fall. It was a fun build and I was able to do this project for about $350. I shared this photo on Reddit and Facebook in the last 7 months or so. Chances are most of you have already seen this. I'm really just new to using the AtariAge website and I'm just trying to figure stuff out. This is my first post....lol
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Hello all! This article appears in the latest issue of Retro Gamer (183, Tetris Cover). Enjoy!
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Maybe someone would like to be informed of Retro Gamer magazine articles regarding Atari 8-bit computers. So I decided to open this topic. Issue 129 Way Out and Dandy remembered in Maze Games 8 pages article Issue 128 Karl Hilton (Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark) 6 pages interview (he started programming on Atari 400 and one of his favourite games is Rescue On Fractalus). Atari Blast homebrew work in progress. Dimo's Quest homebrew work in progress. Issue 127 Perplexity homebrew game review. Issue 125 http://youtu.be/tdfmmjDxtlw Atari 8-bit 35 years young: 6 pages dedicated to Atari 8-bit computers. Issue 124 http://youtu.be/0pwofKRB8m8 The History of Boulder Dash: 8 pages article. Atari XE Games System: 6 pages article. Bomb Jake homebrew mentioned in the Bomb Jack article. Issue 123 http://youtu.be/C4otv5RYvm8 ABBUC Software Competition 2013 overview. Issue 122 Frantisek "Fandal" Houra's interview by Jason Kelk. Issue 121 http://youtu.be/w65aMIgZ3-Y English Software: 6 pages dedicated to the company that released many A8 games. Alien 8 homebrew review. Issue 120 http://youtu.be/MqmVdNIsipA Access Software. Issue 119 Zeppelin Games. Issue 116 http://youtu.be/sK5eY5at9ns LucasArts - A Celebration. Minority Report: 4 pages dedicated to A8 games. Issue 115 http://youtu.be/h5Ebti3LXUg The History of Seventies Home Computers. Norbert Kehrer interview by Jason Kelk. Issue 112 Mary Poppins homebrew review. Issue 111 Asteroids Emulator homebrew review. Issue 110 http://youtu.be/-9TpiOj4eAA Ridiculous Reality homebrew game review. Martin "Matosimi" Simecek interview by Jason Kelk. Issue 109 http://youtu.be/W3-2V8h55h4 Jack Tramiel: a 4 page article by Marty Golberg. Issue 106 Line Runner homebrew review. Issue 105 http://youtu.be/wJ3B1Dv9BjQ The origin of Electronic Arts: 10 pages article. Issue 103 http://youtu.be/M44s4qa8760 40 reasons why Atari changed gaming: 8 pages article. Issue 95 http://youtu.be/4HH6b8rSKaI Chris "Sheddy" Hutt interview by Jason Kelk. Issue 94 http://youtu.be/2rV4g5jVFdA Atari Corporation article by Marty Golberg. Space Harrier homebrew review. Issue 93 http://youtu.be/RSKIIdQS1x4 Atari Inc article by Marty Golberg. Octopus homebrew game review. Krzystof "XXL" Dudek interview by Jason Kelk. Issue 92 http://youtu.be/kLu07S2w7MM End of the 8-bits: 10 pages article. Gonzo homebrew review. Issue 91 http://youtu.be/zGlsXsLWXbU Mashed Turtles homebrew review. Jason "therealbountybob" Kendall interview by Jason Kelk. Issue 87 http://youtu.be/WdlZgFBVosU Project M homebrew work in progress. Issue 86 http://youtu.be/PkHKUyUF8uw Changing Words: 6 pages dedicated to early free-form 3D gaming (Mercenary). Issue 83 http://youtu.be/4xH-YESfsEQ Little 15 homebrew review. Dungeon Monsters work in progress. Issue 82 http://youtu.be/elyetpF_j_Q Parker Brothers 6 pages article. Sid Meier 6 pages article. Issue 80 http://youtu.be/-KJWw1mUe5g Atari 5200: 8 pages article by Marty Goldberg. Issue 79 http://youtu.be/ArwO3D0_tF0 Star Raiders 4 pages article. The Kikstart series 4 pages article. David Crane 8 pages interview. Tempest Xtreem and Spy Hunter news. Issue 78 http://youtu.be/35ZHVnEeKj4 Magnetic Scrolls 6 pages article. Diamondz homebrew review. Tomcat homebrew news. Issue 77 http://youtu.be/nGFRA4QBu_c Zork 4 pages article. Gridrunner homebrew news. Issue 76 http://youtu.be/qckvmZ9m22E Hobgoblin homebrew news. Issue 75 http://youtu.be/hYHAFsTXtCk Tynesoft 6 pages article. Steve Bristow 6 pages article. Issue 74 http://youtu.be/feUR5SK3MZE Spy vs Spy Trilogy: 6 page article. Issue 73 http://youtu.be/XJH7H6Opp1M Moon Shuttle VBXE news. Issue 71 http://youtu.be/u_E1q9EYNW0 Kolony 2106 homebrew news. Issue 70 http://youtu.be/iUPA23Gu7YA Galaxian homebrew review. Super Mario Bros WIP. Karolj "Heaven/TQA" Nadj interview by Jason Kelk. Issue 49 Pastfinder article. Epyx article
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Hello all, I just want to let you know that Retro Gamer Magazine (no. 118, see below) is running a special article on Defender of the Crown. They also gave coverage to the Elektronite / Classic Game Publishers project. Well done! Enjoy!
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Hey guys, I have just received my latest copy of Retro Gamer (no. 117) and in the section of Homebrews (p. 105) there is a small article on Groovy Bee and Rocketeer. Well done Groovy Bee! I hope that Retro Gamer interviews you some time Cheers!
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Another interesting issue. A8's content: In the 30 years of the Commodore 64 article, Archer MacLean (Dropzone, International Karate, IK+) is interviewed. What made it different [the C64] from other machines? When the C64 came along in Europe, it was fresh and new and had a big marketing campaign that openly boasted around sprites, the SID chip and how 64KB of RAM was going to do wonders for games. The C64 quickly established itself as market leader in Europe and it therefore made commercial sense to develop games on the C64. C64 sprites were certainly easier to use and more versatile than the Atari system, even if it did lack some of the Atari's amazing graphical hardware. In the Homebrew section, Jason reviewed Line Runner. In Julian Rignall (Zzap!64, C&VG, IGN, GamePro... journalist) interview, he said that to get the job at Zzap!64 he lied because at the time he didn't have a C64 but an Atari. When being asked questions about the C64 games he was playing, he just talked about the Atari games the he played that were also on the C64.
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