Imagine this. You plug in your Sega Saturn, grab your Virtua gun, load up your well loved copy of Virtua Cop… and this appears: You almost rage destroy the gun as its a royal ball-ache trying to navigate the time and date setting process using the buttons on your gunContinue Reading
North of the border to Edinburgh in Scotland, is where we head for our next retro gaming collection-fest. Stewart Lange is co-founder of Retro Collective Europe, an avid Sega fan and a big collector of Master System titles. He is gunning for a complete Sega Master System collection and isContinue Reading
If you owned a Sega Megadrive in the 90s, you have no doubt played Streets of Rage and Streets of Rage 2, the often copied but never equaled beat-em-ups that enthralled kids and adults alike. Not only were the games smash hits, the soundtracks were too. Composed and produced byContinue Reading
When the Kickstarter campaign for Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works by Darren Wall was announced it proclaimed to be the ‘definitive volume on the landmark console’ which was a lofty goal indeed. The fact that this documentary artbook was officially licensed by Sega themselves and that Read Only Memory’s previous titleContinue Reading
Most gamers have heard the stories of Atari’s burial of it’s stock of ET The Extra-Terrestrial cartridges in the desert landfill of Alamogordo. What no-one knew is exactly what they would find there. This 66 minute documentary, produced by Xbox Entertainment Studios and directed by Zak Penn, charts the excavationContinue Reading
What is a Turbo Everdrive? The Turbo Everdrive is a printed circuit board flash drive made by Krikzz (krikzz.com) for the NEC TurboGrafx and PC Engine consoles. Krikzz, a manufacturer from Ukraine, are already famous for their amazing array of flash carts available for almost every major console ever produced.Continue Reading
Atari 2600 Limitations Every console manufacturer at every generation has had a decision to make on how much memory (RAM) could be put in the console with an eye on production costs. The VCS designers back in the 1970s were severely constrained RAM-wise and could afford to add just 128Continue Reading
Since I have had a complete Atari CX2600 ‘Heavy Sixer’ in my collection, I have been getting asked regularly how you tell a ‘Heavy’ from a ‘Light’ Sixer. At first glance they look pretty similar; six switches, woodgrain, same general shape. But look a little closer and the differences inContinue Reading
Think you have what it takes to sit through nine hours (yes 9!) of Super Nintendo intros? You do? Great, then go get a coffee, make yourself comfortable and watch this amazing video of SNES start up screens in alphabetical order. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9V-A_26s0M]Continue Reading
Yes, we add yet another retro version of the irritating modern gaming phenomenon that is Flappy Bird. Not that the retro versions are irritating. These remakes are borne of a love of our gaming past. A fusion of old and new showing respect for ancient gaming systems that many modernContinue Reading