With this project I hope to bring you in my world of growing up with THE Commodore 64. My book will take you back in time and hopefully give you the feel of how an 80s youngster’s life revolved around this machine. Just imagine your teenage bedroom full of friends and this shiny Commodore, like a king, standing proud in the middle. Around this machine, battles were fought, friendships were strengthened, plenty of emotions were shared and exciting times always laid ahead. This home computer was…
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About the book A sample of some of the games to be covered in The Mastertronic Archives Founded in 1983 by Martin Alper, Frank Herman and Alan Sharam, Mastertronic went on to become one of the UK’s biggest home video game publishers of the 1980s. The company’s marketing strategy of putting games on shelves at the low price of just £1.99, when most other games sold from £4.99, resulted in booming sales and massive profits for the London based company. This Kickstarter aims to produce both a standard volume and an…
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About the book Click here to support the Kickstarter From 1985 to 1993 home computing ruled the roost in the UK, with the likes of the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore Amiga offering the kind of experiences not available on other platforms. The Way We Played is a beautifully produced, hardback, full colour art book that celebrates this golden era of gaming, exploring a unique time when multi-platform development could lead to vastly different versions of the same game being produced to match the limitations of the hardware. No. 1…
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Mark Hardisty Interview by Peter Ward “Welcome to Retro Gamesmaster thank you for sparing time from your busy schedule. Let’s get this interview underway” “What got you into writing books about retro gaming?” I’m a Sheffieldier of a certain age, growing up in the infancy of the computer games industry in Britain, so I used to head into the “big city” to visit WH Smiths, Woolworths, Boots and the other players in the early games market on my weekends. Just Micro was an independent retailer that appeared on Carver Street…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhkFrcdYA8Y Click here to support the Kickstarter Introduction Welcome! This is the first book especially written about the Atari ST Demoscene and its origins. Unlike any other retro book it combines a continuous essayistic storyline with a lithographic art book presentation. This full-coloured hardback book contains over 200 pages of Demoscene history and is just the beginning. The first volume enfolds the timespan from 1986 to 1990 and focuses on the development and transformation of the early core of the scene. Thalion was built upon the fusion of democrews. 1989. A press…
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Jeffrey Wittenhagen “The Complete NES” is a project that is a combination campaign having multiple different aspects to it. There is a thorough NES Collector’s Guide covering the entire licensed US NES library, a brand new physical NES RPG that focuses on Collecting NES games and game-related artwork opportunities from world-renowned Topps artist Joe Simko. This is truly a passion project by some down-to-earth guys just trying to share their passion of gaming to as many people as possible. Please help out where you can and spread the love! Order the book…
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Author Antoine Clerc-Renaud Interview by Peter Ward Pete: “Welcome to Retro Gamesmaster Antoine thank you for sparing time from your busy schedule. Let’s get this interview underway” Pete: “What got you into writing books about retro gaming?” Antoine: “I’ve always been passionate about gaming and the more I played and the time goes by, the more I became interested in people who were making them. I wanted to know how it was like to develop games in a time without USB, or the Internet. And the tools that people would use at the time.…
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