Latest Features
Feature Switzerland Granted £2.8 Million To Preserve Its Video Game History - Why Can't The UK?
"There is money there if we have the will to chase it"
Feature How Rik Mayall Helped Bring Anarchy To Nintendo UK
Comedy legend passed away 10 years ago today
Feature Taito's Chairman Was Almost Kidnapped By His Own Employees
It happened in Brazil, circa 1985...
Feature Meet The Man Who Supplies Netflix, Disney And EA With Vintage Arcade Cabinets
"I suppose I became a bit of a celebrity of arcade machines"
Feature Did You Know Ireland Has A Secret History Of Coin-Ops?
Electro-mechanical games on The Emerald Isle
Feature In 1989, A Teenage Atari ST Dev Made One Award-Winning Game Then Vanished - What Happened?
"We often have two preferred paths, and then we choose... That's life"
Retail Therapy Nintendo Stores, Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto)
We had the good fortune of visiting all three of Japan's Nintendo stores
Feature 10 Forgotten Gaming Magazines That Are Worth Remembering
Did you read any of these classics?
Feature The Race Is On To Save A Valuable Resource Of Video Game History
We need the community's help - do you have old copies of CTW?
Feature Meet The Man Behind The $99 MiSTer Clone That's Changing FPGA Gaming Forever
"Our goal is not to try and make a bunch of money from these boards"
Feature History Of Games 2024 Offered An Embarrassment Of Riches, But Games Media Isn't Listening
"The push to publish academic work open-access is to share research"
Feature Former Nintendo World Champ Jeff Hansen On Teaming Up With Nintendo Again, 30 Years Later
"It’s obviously a completely different world today"
Feature "Most Of My Engineers Were Stoned" - Nolan Bushnell On The Failure Of Atari Video Music
"I think we sold ten at full price"
Soapbox The Trouble With Limited Run Games, And How To Fix It
"There has to be a better standard of quality"
Feature Is It Time To Change The Narrative On The Sega Saturn?
"After 30 Years..."
Feature The Forgotten Satellaview Sequel To Famicom Detective Club
BS Detective Club was originally distributed for the Nintendo Satellaview in 1997
The Making Of Animal Well, 2024's Most Unique Metroidvania
"I took a vow that I would do this at some point in my life"
Feature Unpacking The 64DD, Nintendo's Most Infamous Flop
We take a closer look at one of Nintendo's biggest failures
Feature The Truth About Retro Game Hunting In A Post-Pandemic Japan
Is it all doom and gloom?
Feature FPGA Vs Software Emulation - Which Is Best? We Asked Four Experts To Find Out
Which option should you choose in 2024?
"Virtuality was the world leader in VR at one point"
"Wrestlerage never happened; it evolved"
Feature Rosewater Dev On Point ’n Click Westerns & Casting Red Dead’s Arthur Morgan
"I told him like, ‘Let’s make sure he doesn’t sound like Arthur Morgan.'"
"I liken this journey to the one that Odysseus went through"
"When I next woke up, I was temporarily blind"
Feature All Is Not Well In The World Of FPGA Retro Gaming
Update: Pixel Cherry Ninja and Pramod Somashekar make peace
The Making Of Ride To Hell, The Open-World Epic That Became One Of The Worst Games Of All Time
"I believe the potential was definitely there"
Feature The Story Behind 'Replay' - The Moving New Memoir From Prince Of Persia's Creator
"I thought, ‘How can you put these things together?'"
Feature The Quest To Save Cookie's Bustle From Obscurity
"This game is a work of art and it should be preserved"
Interview Meet The UK Collector Creating His Own Retro Game Museum
"The whole purpose of these things is to be enjoyed"
Interview Factor 5's Julian Eggebrecht On Star Wars, Indiana Jones And Choosing N64 Over PS1
"Our games were treated like first-party games"
Flashback The Lost 32X Castlevania That Led To Symphony Of The Night
The tale of "Castlevania: The Bloodletting"
Flashback Wizard Vs. Wizards - The Early eSports Tournament That Time Forgot
"This is the event where Hollywood meets the Computer Age"
Interview "It’s Rare That You Can Identify A Winner" - How Namco Brought Tekken To The West
We chat to former Namco US product manager Jerry "Blood & Guts" Momoda
Flashback That Time Miyamoto Said He Could Make Halo, But Didn't Want To
"It's not that I couldn't design that game"
Feature Bitmap Books Celebrates 10th Anniversary, And We Were There
Industry celebrities, veteran writers, an open bar, and a lot of off-the-record conversations
Feature "I Spent The First Year Worrying I'd Get Replaced" - Retro Gamer Magazine Turns 20
"It's great to have had an influence on where retro gaming now is"
Feature How Kasumi Ninja's Angus MacGregor Found A New Lease Of Life
"Angus holds some very fond memories for many"