The Thursday letters page shares memories of never having played a NES, as one reader is confused by the secrecy surrounding ...

The world of fighting video games has offered us a lot of interesting titles, but only several of them have turned into multi-game franchises that we loved playing for generations and generations. Two ...

Hey all, I’m back with a real classic for this week’s Retro Game Friday. It’s Rick Dangerous. For those that missed this one, Rick Dangerous was a 1989 side-view platform game from Core Design. It is ...

Back when I was a kid, I would trek into the city on a Saturday morning to see what new games were out for my trusty old Amstrad CPC home computer. Week after week, I tried to get a copy of The Way of ...

Yoshihisa Kishimoto, perhaps the key pioneer of the beat ’em up genre and the creator of Double Dragon, has died at the age of 64. Kishimoto passed away on April 2, 2026, with the news confirmed by ...

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My passion for programming began with my very first computer, an Amstrad CPC 6128. I started coding in Basic, then moved on to Turbo Pascal on a 286, eventually exploring more modern languages ...

One of the most iconic game controllers is making a modern day comeback. The Quickshot II, which was extremely popular among computer game players in the 1980s and 1990s, is being re-released by Retro ...

When the Raspberry Pi 500+ was announced I’ll admit that I drooled. My first “computer” was an 8-bit Amstrad CPC 464, a hulking great clackity-clack keyboard with the computer (and tape deck, the ...

My passion for programming began with my very first computer, an Amstrad CPC 6128. I started coding in Basic, then moved on to Turbo Pascal on a 286, eventually exploring more modern languages ...

Back in 1984, my family got our first home computer – An Amstrad CPC, and it shaped, ultimately, my entire career from then on in as a professional games journalist. Back in the day, besides games ...