Year: 2016

Daze before Christmas

Peter Ward

Published by Sun Corporation Developed by Funcom Productions A/S Released 1994 Daze before Christmas was a game that was originally released on the SNES, but was then released exclusively for the Sega Mega Drive in Australia in 1994. Getting into the spirit of Christmas, I tracked down this game about a year ago and thought I’d give it a try. During the game you play as Santa Claus as he races to save Christmas from an evil snowman who has imprisoned Santa’s elves and captured Santa’s reindeer. You go through…

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Vega+ Production and Overview 2016.  

Peter Ward

  A Pain in the Buttons….  We had hoped to post an update a few days ago. Unfortunately, we have been swamped working on the improvement to the Vega+ we previously told you about. The testing has proved to be slightly trickier than previously suspected and the new buttons caused all sorts of additional issues – they really were a pain in the buttons! We now believe we have finally solved most of those problems and we have a series of production meetings between now and next Tuesday to confirm this, once…

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Medievil

Peter Ward

Review by  Sheldon James Stokes (OArcadiaSkiesO) www.twitch.tv/arcadiaskies A Gothic Tale Straight from the Grave   Challenge the powers of darkness and untold magic as Sir Daniel Fortesque returns from the grave to battle an evil sorcerer’s plans of demise. (As if being dead wasn’t bad enough!) Follow the mystical trial of darkness and land in the journey of a lifetime.   – A mighty arsenal of weapons awaits: swords, daggers, crossbows, hammers, the occasional chicken drumstick and more!   – Fiendish puzzles and riddles to solve.   – Ghoulish enemies…

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Barney’s Hide & Seek Game

Peter Ward

Review by Victoria Graves   twitch.tv/ukviixen Published by SEGA of America, Inc. Developed by Realtime Associates, Inc. Released 1993 Platform Genesis Whilst stumbling around countless Mega Drive websites trying to find a game that I would never usually play, I found this little gem hidden away. Barney’s Hide & Seek Game. It was released exclusively in North and South America in 1993. Always one for picking games that would challenge and destroy my soul I had to play it. Those of you who would instantly recognise Barney the Dinosaur from childrens TV. Now i’m not…

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Turrican

Peter Ward

Review by James Whelan PROLOGUE A story of times long gone by, tells us of the three-headed Morgul, who lives a secluded life in his kingdom. This Morgul is the cause of all the fears and nightmares of mankind. It is furthermore said, that in ancient times he was banished to an unknown dimension by the hero Devolon. Fear and sleepless nights disappeared out of the people’s lives. For some time now people have again been tormented by nightmares and suffer from a serious state of dread and fear. Hardly…

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Retro Computers Honoured To Be Recognized For its Donation to the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital

Peter Ward

Well done from the RGM Team  to Retro Computers Retro Computers Honoured To Be Recognized For its Donation to the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital It’s not every day we at Retro Computers get to be part of something much bigger than ourselves, but the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children¹s Charity is number one on that list – personally as well as professionally. Amit Aggarwal, Director of Corporate Partnerships, said: “On behalf of everyone at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children¹s Charity, I’d like to thank Retro Computers for their generous…

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Super Samurai Kickstarter Saturday 5th November 2016

Peter Ward

The legendary team behind many retro classics including the Last Ninja 2, Exolon, Street Racer and Cybernoid; Mev Dinc and Raff Cecco are thrilled to announce the formation of their new company, Pixel Age Studios! Mind you, what’s a developer without a game? We are even more thrilled to announce a rip-roaring reboot of our 16 bit Amiga classic, First Samurai. Introducing… SUPER SAMURAI Temples of Time. An extra 48 bits plus modern hardware?! We couldn’t resist all that goodness and are pushing the envelope once again, turning our retro-classic…

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Resident Evil 2

Peter Ward

Review by Victoria Graves   twitch.tv/ukviixen Published by Capcom Entertainment, Inc. Developed by Capcom Co., Ltd. Released 1998 Platform PlayStation Overview First there was the disaster at the mansion lab. Umbrella Corp. developed the T-Virus, a muta-genic toxin for use in biological weapons. After breaking loose, living things mutated into all sorts of decaying creatures. The case was eventually closed, but Umbrella’s experiments were far from over. CAN YOU SURVIVE THE HORROR? Now it’s the worst possible nightmare; a new virus runs rampant. All of Raccoon City is infested. Blood-thirsty zombies, hideous mutations now…

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Street Fighter II (Commodore 64)

Peter Ward

Published by: U.S. Gold Developed by: Creative Materials Released: 1992 Also for: Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Game Boy, Master System, Mobile, MS-DOS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Sega Saturn, Super NES, X-Box, ZX Spectrum Having set a new standard for scrolling beat-’em-up games with Final Fight, Capcom went and made a sequel to their rather forgettable one-on-one fighting game Street Fighter (1987); the rest is history. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior burst into the arcades in 1992, leaving crowds of gamers awestruck and noticeably short on change.…

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Menace

Peter Ward

Published by Psygnosis Limited Developed by DMA Design Limited Released 1988 Also For Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS Menace Remember Blood Money? Sure you do! We all remember Blood Money; the frustration, the broken joysticks, the swearing… Menace, while not a direct prequel to Blood Money, is something of a spiritual forerunner, though mercifully much much easier. Developed by the same team who brought you that torture-fest (in fact, Blood Money’s intro features a voice sample, intoning “First, there was Menace…”), Menace was Scottish developer DMA Design’s first Amiga release.…

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