Retro Gaming
If you were gaming in the 70’s and 80’s then this section offers you a trip down memory lane. Articles and full blown retrospectives into some of the greatest and not so great games of the past.
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Retrospective - A Look Back At Death Rally
It was 1996 when I first heard of Death Rally a game developed by Remedy Games a then smallish development studio based out of Espoo, Finland. The distributor was Apogee, a heavy weight publisher of its time and one that was an expert at using the shareware model of game distribution.
BreakQuest PSP Mini Review
When I was first asked to review BreakQuest, I was expecting to play yet another Atari BreakOut or a Taito Arkanoid clone. You see, I haven’t played any of the recent clones, so I was a little out of touch with just how much the genre has moved on and evolved since the last time I played. So, imagine my surprise when I first played BreakQuest.
Remedy Games - Death Rally Is Now Free
If you grew up in the mid 90’s playing the extremely addictive top down racing game known as Death Rally then you’re in for a pleasant surprise. Remedy Games who developed the game back in 1996 (then for DOS only) have kindly reworked and re-released it to work on modern PC computers (XP, Vista, Windows 7).
25 Years Of Tetris - Atari, Nintendo & Mirrorsoft
This months retro feature gives tribute to Tetris the amazingly addictive puzzle game which believe it or not has been in production for almost 25 years. Not only is it still being played by millions of gamers today but it’s been updated, reworked and featured on so many different platforms that tracking its current version borders on impossible.
The History Of Atari
Back in the year 1961, the mere thought of a person contemplating the idea of creating videogames would be enough to put that person into the category of crazy. Why ? I hear you ask, well that answer is simple! Back then videogames were barely around. Let’s take a look at how it all developed to what we have today.