Tag Archives: Retro Gamer

The best PSP games reflect just how ahead of the game Sony was in 2004. Going up against Nintendo’s 3DS was never going to be easy for the manufacturer, although it had faced stiffer odds in the home console market years before. With its multimedia UMD cartridges and a selection …

The latest issue of Retro Gamer is on sale now and celebrates the exploits of Earthworm Jim, one of the most iconic characters to come out of the Nineties. Our exhaustive 10-page feature not only reveals how the crazy annelid was created by Doug TenNapel, but also why he was …

The idea for QuakeCon originally came from an internet chatroom between fans and developers who wanted to play iD Software’s games together.  As detailed in issue 227 of Retro Gamer, QuakeCon was born in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) room in the early 90s. Run for fans, by fans, the …

This year is the Nintendo 64’s 25th anniversary and Retro Gamer spoke to veteran developers to find out why so many of the system’s games pushed technical boundaries. Interestingly, despite the power of Nintendo’s console, Giles Goddard, who worked on titles including Super Mario 64 and 1080º Snowboarding had an …

When you try to imagine how the developers behind Blood, one of the most gloriously gory games of the nineties, first came together, the last thing that springs to mind is a games studio known for titles like Millie’s Math House. Perhaps the placid nature of educational games development caused …

Shinji Mikami is a very likeable guy who is not afraid to speak his mind. For a start, he says, the Resident Evil title is a “stupid” one. The Western title for his made-in-Japan horror epic is, he reckons, completely nonsensical. (Capcom America proposed the Anglicised term; Mikami had no …

After notching one film apiece, The Terminator and RoboCop stood equal. Both had been incredible sleeper hits, totally unfancied at the box office, and demonstrated the pointedly adult sci-fi talents of maverick directors looking for their first major breakthrough hit. Then, when the inevitable sequels appeared, the two franchises began …

In the winter of 1996, publisher Gremlin Interactive unleashed an action-horror classic onto an unsuspecting gaming public. Cowering in a corner is Retro Gamer as we talk to producer Paul Green about the ideas and development that spawned this battle between good and evil… “I started at Gremlin as a …

Issue 203 of Retro Gamer (opens in new tab) celebrates the legendary Super Mario series. We quizzed a number of industry veterans, including John Romero, Ste Pickford, Chris Sutherland, Derek Yu and Julian “Jaz” Rignall to find out what makes the 2D Mario games so special and the impact the …

Hindsight being what it is, we can look back now at the launch of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and see beyond its initial poor sales figures, and the fact that neither Konami or Sony seemed interested in supporting its PlayStation release with much advertising, and see how important and …