Retro Gamer Issue 100 + Issue 1

StriderUK · Newbie Joined: 01 Mar 2012 Posts: 1

Apologies for this post, but it's quite a big deal and your memebers should find it of interest Smile

Particularly the andrew braybrook and rob hubbard interviews

Issue 100 of Retro Gamer is going to be in shops today and it also includes a reprint of the original issue 1

Here's the content
Developer Autographs
Eastern Blocks: The Story Of Game Boy Tetris
Baer's Odyssey (interview with Ralph Baer)
The Making Of Grand Theft Auto
John Romero Discusses Dangerous Dave
Crash And Burn (The Videogame Crash)
The Music Man (An Interview with Rob Hubbard)
Inside The ZX Spectrum
David Braben discusses Elite
David Crane's Tricks Of The Trade (David discusses the many Atari 2600 techniques he created)
The Making Of Sonic The Hedgehog with Yuji Naka
A Moment With Mark Jones
100 Classic Gaming Moments
In The Chair with Andrew Braybrook
RG Rampage - A Commodore 64 Type In Game
Eugene Jarvis discusses Robotron: 2084

Issue 1 Contents
Sinclair Researched (the story of sinclair)
Return Of The Rings (the videogames based on Lord Of The Rings)
Hall Of The Miner King (Jet Set Willy Feature)
Top 100 Retro Games
Mastertronic A History
Street Fighting Clan (story of Street Fighter)
Licence To Kill (videogame nasties)
1983 Advertising Gallery
Emulation Nation (the best emulators)

If you don't want to miss this special issue you can buy it directly from www.imagineshop.co.uk

merman · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:55 pm Post subject:

Got mine this morning, proud to have been a part of the magazine over the last few years... Well done to strider and everyone involved for reaching the milestone. Here's to many, many more issues
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Bago Zonde · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:21 pm Post subject:

I was first time in London in my life few weeks ago and my girlfriend found retrogamer issue 99 on Luton Airport Smile

. It's a great piece of cake, I really enjoy because of "deep-retro" as 8-bits content. Is here any possibility depending on you for sending magazine in sequences (4 issues in one package) to Poland? Or maybe I could do some investigation if some more people in Poland could be interested with purchase retrogamer monthly/per 3 months etc.? I could distribute it directly to people in Poland because I'm interested in retrogaming and I'm involved in some software and hardware development for Commodore 64.

c64endings.co.uk · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:28 pm Post subject:

Got mine today too. Cool issue with Rob Hubbard and an Andrew Braybrook features.
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Wing Commander · Groupie Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 187

Retro Gamer is a pretty good mag most of the time, but sometimes they go overboard with the console focus. I liked them better back when they had a more "European" identity, with a larger focus on the home computers of the eighties and nineties.

Retro Rated for instance is almost exclusively about console games despite GOG et.c. on the PC. Future Classic is always about some (usually Japanese) console game.

(and believe it or not, I also miss the coverdisc)

This particular issue seems to have a lot of very good stuff though. And I did miss the first issue (the earliest I have is issue 4 I think) so that's cool.

merman · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:06 pm Post subject:

PC download services are now included in the Retro Rated section. Just recently (I feel) there has been a very good balance between computer, console and arcade.
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Wing Commander · Groupie Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 187

Yeah, I agree the balance has been pretty good in some of the later issues. But Retro Rated is like... if it's a platformer or a Nintendo game (which obviously means it's part of some ancient series as Nintendo hates new stuff), it apparently qualifies for a review.

Unkle K · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:09 am Post subject:

I wish it had a re-print of issues 2 and 3, the only two issues I'm missing!

Gurt · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:07 am Post subject:

I'm only missing 1 and 2...I guess our airmail copies will start arriving this week. I don't know, I've been saying for ages (since maybe ish 80-85) that RG has been going way too modern in recent times (and I don't count PSX/N64 as modern), and that I'd stop buying it after issue 100. Whether I stick to that will remain to seen...

Canute · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:56 am Post subject:

I can buy all the issues on DVD compilations, right ?

With this Issue 100, how many pages are in the hard copy?

Gurt · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:59 am Post subject:

DVD compilation or iPad app, I think.

merman · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:37 pm Post subject:

Canute wrote:

I can buy all the issues on DVD compilations, right ?

With this Issue 100, how many pages are in the hard copy?

There are 3 DVD compilations so far.

Issue 100 has 116 pages, plus the 100 page reprint of issue 1
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Unkle K · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:24 am Post subject:

Canute wrote:

I can buy all the issues on DVD compilations, right ?

With this Issue 100, how many pages are in the hard copy?

I have all the missing issues as pdf's.. But the collection still isn't complete!!

Canute · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:43 am Post subject:

Unkle K wrote:

Canute wrote:

I can buy all the issues on DVD compilations, right ?

With this Issue 100, how many pages are in the hard copy?

I have all the missing issues as pdf's.. But the collection still isn't complete!!

One can't get your missing Issues 2 and 3 on the purchased DVD compilations ?

Hend · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:23 am Post subject:

I have all 100 issues and now two of issue 1! Confused

I really enjoy the mag, some great articles.

I tend to skip directly to the homebrew pages though. These are far too short for my liking only a double page spread. I want larger reviews of what is around, Zapp style ideally Smile

As for modern stuff, well I dont think it's too bad for that, but the latest remakes, x-box arcade releases and reviews of the latest installments of long running franchises don't interest me much and take a lot of space.

I also enjoyed the cover cds, but the best one was the game music compilation in my opinion. I wouldn't mind another of those Cool

Elvir · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:14 pm Post subject:

Anybody read interview with Andrew Braybrook in new Retro gamer?What he said? What doing these days...? Smile

The_Masked_Coder · Newbie Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 30

Yeh, Andy's interview was excellent.

I've been waiting years to find out what he has been doing.

Looks like he's been writing Insurance software since quitting the games business, but he did elude in the interview that he's thinking of getting back into game dev. Possibly ios stuff.

Apparently he agreed to the interview after reading Retro Gamers interview with Steve Turner ( Graftgold boss ).

The interview runs to 8 pages, with 7 of those full of text.

If it wasn't so long i'd type it out and post it.

Probably easier for someone to scan it though, then you get the pictures.

I don't have access to a scanner though.

Anyone here like to oblige ?

Gurt · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 11:36 am Post subject:

I forgot to mention, the airmail copies have arrived in Australia now (as of Friday) so those of us who are waiting for it, find a place that sells airmail mags! $21.95 is what I paid. Nine days, pretty fast!

Wing Commander · Groupie Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 187

Finally got my issue now, and I have to say it's very good. I mean, I still don't get what games like Soul Calibur V and Resident Evil: Revelations are doing in the reviews section, but there's lots of great content and the annoying Future Classic is nowhere to be seen. The reprint is really cool too.

The_Masked_Coder · Newbie Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 30

The Andrew Braybrook interview is now available for download here.

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/v...highlight=

merman · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:56 am Post subject:

Wing Commander wrote:

Finally got my issue now, and I have to say it's very good. I mean, I still don't get what games like Soul Calibur V and Resident Evil: Revelations are doing in the reviews section, but there's lots of great content and the annoying Future Classic is nowhere to be seen. The reprint is really cool too.

New games in classic franchises get a review, because people who played the old ones would surely be interested in the new ones. Plus the games get advertised in the mag, bringing in the revenue to pay the freelancers to keep writing great articles...
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retrogamer-downunder · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:03 am Post subject:

i cant believe how behind i am! last issue i bought was 53!
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Wing Commander · Groupie Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 187

merman wrote:

New games in classic franchises get a review, because people who played the old ones would surely be interested in the new ones. Plus the games get advertised in the mag, bringing in the revenue to pay the freelancers to keep writing great articles...

I think the second part of your answer is a bit more important than the first (and that raises some touchy issues, but let's not get into those).

Due to the heavy sequelitis that's affecting the games industry right now, especially the Japanese part of it, "new games in classic franchises" can mean virtually anything. In my opinion stuff like Soul Calibur isn't any more of a classic franchise than Call of Duty or Medal of Honor. SC was introduced in 1998, meaning it's not much older than a lot of the large franchises today.

Crucially, I don't think people buys a magazine called Retro Gamer to read reviews of modern games that get reviews in pretty much all the multiplatform mags and free gaming websites already. I know I don't.

Issues like these caused me to stop my subscription for at least a couple of years. The only reason I resubscribed was that I actually got my workplace to pay for it ("research", honest). In fairness, I do feel the current RG is better and more interesting than the one I dropped a few years ago.

Gurt · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:03 pm Post subject:

^ this. Except I'm not sure it's better. I think after 99/100 issues, I might finally be done with it.

merman · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:02 pm Post subject:

Issue 100 back on sale at the Imagine online shop.

And it is better.
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