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"Some of the biggest inspirations for Gun-Dog came from old movies and anime."
Feature The Forgotten Satellaview Sequel To Famicom Detective Club
BS Detective Club was originally distributed for the Nintendo Satellaview in 1997
Martin Alltimes worked as a producer at Sony from 1994 to 2001
Interview Say Hello To Jocelyn Benford, The First Person To Give Princess Peach A Voice
"I guess we did well though since Hotel Mario still has a lot of fans"
Feature The Challenge Of Teaching Game History In The Age Of Minecraft, Netflix And ChatGPT
"The sad news is that we have to force students to check it out"
Interview "It's Easy To Get A Bit Over-Ambitious" - Roguecraft Devs On Developing For Amiga In 2024
"Roguecraft was supposed to take about 6 months to develop and ended up taking 2 years"
Feature Cracking The Mystery Of Duke Nukem Advance's Two English Localizations
The two localizations recently came to light on The Cutting Room Floor
"I want nothing more than to actually try and make a version that runs on the Saturn"
Feature The Forgotten Legacy Of Taito Of Brazil
"Taito was one of the first multinational companies specialising in games"
"No one has said anything to us about the 'SuperSega' name"
Hands On Run 'n' Gun: A History Of On-Foot Shooters Takes You From Contra To Cuphead
Bitmap Books is back with a blast
And talks about what's next for Pixel Games
"There's this huge sigh of relief, like, 'Oh, they like it, they really like it'"
Feature "The Reader Should Be The Beneficiary Of The Writing. No One Else" - A Tribute To Andy Dyer
"I was proud and privileged to call Andy Dyer my best mate"
The Making Of Worms, The Bedroom-Coded Classic That Spawned A Million-Selling Series
"I was worried about losing control of it"
Feature "I Have No Interest In 3D Games" - Meet The Devs Keeping EGA Alive In The Modern Day
We speak to the developers The Crimson Diamond, Telwynium, and the Betrayed Alliance
Feature The Quest To Preserve And Document Tectoy's Zeebo Console
"I am a former employee of Tectoy Digital"
Feature Meet The Solo Dev Whose Sega Rally Tribute 'Over Jump Rally' Could Become An Official Sequel
"I can't disclose the situation with Sega at this point"
Feature 3 Cities, 17 Stores - Our Epic Retro Gaming Hunt Across Japan
Here are all the places we visited!
"People were smuggling Spectrums"
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..."
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?