The Little Book of Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games by Chris Wilkins – review
I will start out with a confession – that here at Retro Games Collector we are unashamed fans of the work of Retro Fusion Books. Their publications hit the sweet-spot of quality, content and price and it shows with The ZX Spectrum in Pixels trio, Commodore 64 in Pixels andContinue Reading
The Masters of Pixel Art Volume 2 Kickstarter campaign launches
We see a lot of retro books being launched via Kickstarter these days, don’t we? And a lot of them are, well, a bit ‘same old-same old’. Occasionally though, one pops onto our reading radar that we just have to get involved with. One such book is The Masters ofContinue Reading
ZX Spectrum Games Code Club by Gary Plowman – review
Gary Plowman (AKA Gazzapper Games) sent me the ZX Spectrum Games Code Club to review quite a while back now. Unfortunately for him I have been building my upcoming (yes, and it is close!) retro gaming store and that got in the way of my penning this review. What IContinue Reading
YouTube: Retrogaming pickups, small rant, channel update 8th August 2016
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HyperPlay RPG Fanzine – review
I’m probably the wrong person to be reviewing a fanzine concerning all things RPG. I have never been the biggest fan of the genre. Nevertheless I will do my best to be objective and look at this through the eyes of an RPG fan so here goes… When the fanzineContinue Reading
The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 game – Part 4
Part 4: Studying SID It’s been over a year now since I started work on my platform game, and there is still plenty of work to do on it. I would never have imagined it would take me this long to make a Commodore 64 game, but I constantly findContinue Reading
Commodore Amiga in Pixels Kickstarter goes live and hits goal in one day
The date is Saturday 11th June. The venue? The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England and another exciting Kickstarter launch event for Chris Wilkins and Fusion Retro Books, who’s previous works include the The ZX Spectrum in Pixels Vols. 1-3, Ocean The History and The Story of US Gold amongstContinue Reading
Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict Film interview at the Centre for Computing History
Those of you who have seen me the wrong side of the camera lense on my YouTube channel will know beyond any doubt that I’m never going to be a film star. So imagine my surprise, mild panic, anguish and a few other emotions when Andy Remic decided to includeContinue Reading
Show us your collection: #35 Dana Meddings
Dana Meddings (@Dane83) describes himself as an ‘average every day guy who just happens to love collecting video games’. He started out with the mighty Amstrad CPC 464 at an early age and amassed a large collection of games (many of which he has recently sold off to fund collecting otherContinue Reading
The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels by Chris Wilkins – review
Previous publications from Fusion Retro Book’s ‘in Pixels’ range may have been dedicated to our old stripy friend the ZX Spectrum but now it is time to turn our attention to it’s arch-rival (in the UK anyway) – the mighty Commodore 64, the highest selling single computer model of allContinue Reading