Fighting games are a genre that’s near and dear to me. I’ve competed in Tekken tournaments and have followed the scene for decades. My love of fighting games started on the PlayStation, where there are so many titles in the genre it’s hard to keep up. I played some weird stuff whenRead More →
Almost any Android phone, tablet, or TV can play DOOM. Here’s how to do it. Playing DOOM on Android might seem like something that shouldn’t work, but it does. After all, the 1993 classic from id Software has been proven to work on anything from a fridge to a LegoRead More →
John Bowe decides to ask editor Christian Cawley why he still loves those old video games like Turrican. A couple of years ago I sat down with my brother to play a round of Pro Evo on his PlayStation 4. A simple enough task; we’d been playing Pro Evo togetherRead More →
You might remember the first time you played Pac-Man, but you almost certainly won’t remember the last time. The ghost-eating, pill munching yellow pizza thing is celebrating his 45th birthday this year, and if you haven’t noticed, Namco’s classic (known originally as “Puck Man” in Japan) is popping up everywhere.Read More →
The best-selling British computer of the 8-bit era, a huge library of ZX Spectrum games remains available to play. Think Manic Minor, Horace Goes Skiing, Ant Attack, and many others. Like most other games of the time, these were distributed as cassettes, and required a temperamental cassette player to loadRead More →
Amiga mini console producers Retro Games Ltd reveal litigation-linked delays to its next project, a full-size replica called the A1200. July 13th UPDATE: It has been confirmed on a July 2025 edition of The Retro Hour (487) that the RGL A1200 is coming in Q1 of 2026. August 21st UPDATE:Read More →
I do not personally enjoy a forced sense of enjoyment or entertainment. I like both of those things as a reaction to something, but they do have to be at my discretion. I am not going to be having fun just because the developers of a game have decided so.Read More →
I recall a series of competitive 1990s two player Amiga gaming sessions, with a list of the games that would challenge any friendship… One of the best things about the Commodore Amiga is that along with its sims and strategy titles, it also included a nice collection of two-player games.Read More →
What do genuine artists think of that much-appreciated staple of retro gaming, the classic game covers? The 17th Century French artist Richarde de Pomme Pom, in his collected writings, Words About Paint, said that a piece of art should be, at the very least, more appealing to one’s eyes thanRead More →
