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Box 2769, Plattsburgh, NY 12901-1329. **3** RETRO7 Intro/Hello 11/08/2004 9:36 PM Page 4 ❙❋❙P✄❍❇❋❙* | REGULAR:INSIDES | >insides 07 CGE 2004 p21 Over The Rainbow p48 Retro Gamer reports back from the UK’s first Craig Vaughan looks at the very best and very multi-format retro show worst Spectrum game endings Arcade Hunt p65 Coin-Op Conversions (part 2) p70 Sightings of classic arcade machines have Robert Mellor compares the home versions of flooded into the office two classic Sega arcade games Retro Ryder Cup p85 Create Your Own Game p88 Andrew Fisher pits some of the best golf games Jason Darby remembers the game creation against each other packages we all experimented with in the past **4** RETRO7 Intro/Hello 11/08/2004 9:37 PM Page 5 The Next Level (part 2) p58 Richard Hewison continues his history of the popular UK adventure game developer Box of Tricks p79 The Atari ST Family p30 David Crookes talks to the man behind Richard Davey explores the Atari ST and talks Romantic Robot and its Multiface device to the machine’s UK Product Manager >Regulars Retro News p06 New format, new news, same old stuff Retro Forum p10 In the words of Bob Hoskins... it’s good to talk Retro Reviews p16 The good, the bad and the really damn ugly Desert Island Disks p41 p96 Atari Advertising Gallery Eight games that C&VG columnist Keith Campbell would Another month, another batch of classic take onto our digital desert island software and hardware adverts Retro Mart p109 Bag yourself a retro bargain Endgame p114 Drawing the curtains on another issue **5** RETRO7 News 11/08/2004 8:27 PM Page 6 ❙❋❙P✄❍❇❋❙* | REGULAR:NEWS | It’s Alive! Intellivision games heading to PS2 Budget console publisher Play It is to release Intellivision Lives on the PlayStation 2 this September. This complete collection features over 60 classic games, including some that were never originally a hidden game. Finally, there’s a released, and all for just £10. detailed history of the console As is the norm for this type of narrated by Keith Robinson, package, Intellivision Lives lets president of Intellivision the player loose in a 3D Productions Inc. environment – in this case, Hal’s While digging up news on Pizza Place – and it’s from this Intellivision Lives, we also typically 1980s’ setting that the discovered that Play It is to various games can be selected. release the original Last Ninja Each game is emulated perfectly, trilogy on PS2. The graphics will and presented with the original be enhanced, but the gameplay box art and a production history. and puzzles will remain intact. And that’s not all. Many of the Again, this will be released in the games feature a so-called ‘play next few months and priced at a goal’, which usually involves very economical £10. It will also attaining a certain high score that serve as a perfect appetiser for unlocks bonus content, such as the fully 3D’d up Last Ninja 4, an Intellivision TV commercial or due out next year. both C64 and SID music fans, with Rock more and more attending every year since its humble beginnings the back in 2001. At its helm is Chris Abbott, who now acts as the legal Capital ‘guardian’ and publisher for many Ben Daglish), The C64 Mafia and of the retro game and SID Natasha Samsudin-Mackenzie. After Back in Time soundtracks. last year’s trip to the south coast, This year’s event is billed as the 2004 event will be held at LSO 2004 hits “blending retro gaming and dance St Luke’s, located on London’s Old London music”, with new renditions of Street (EC1V 9NG). Tickets are £25 classic Commodore 64 game each, and every attendee will also A quick reminder that this year’s anthems being played by live receive a copy of Nexus 6581-II, a Back in Time Live event is taking bands. Headlining will be the now- four-track CD of Commodore C64 Chris Abbot ([email protected]). place in Central London on legendary Press Play on Tape, with remixes arranged by Reyn Ouwehand. For a taste of what to expect, take Saturday, 11th September. BIT Live support from Visa Röster, Stuck in For further information, visit a look at Lee Bolton’s trailer on is fast becoming a key event for D’80s (featuring Mark Knight and www.backintimelive.com or email this month’s coverdisc. **6** RETRO7 News 11/08/2004 8:27 PM Page 7 What's happening this month in the retro world This month...// Intellivision on PS2 // Back in Time Live // Mortal Kombat comeback // Megadrive meets PS2 // Minter's a legend? // Retro mobiles // The retro round-up... perfect version of the arcade original. Mortal Kombat: Deception Premium Pack (PlayStation 2) and Richard Burton Mortal Kombat: Deception once again Kollector’s Edition (Xbox) will feature all sorts of goodies, monitors the including exclusive packaging, a 40- wonderful world of minute DVD on the history of online auctions Mortal Kombat and an embossed metal Kollector’s Card. But the Available to the retro gaming fraternity this highlight has to be the addition of month on eBay UK was perhaps the rarest Kombat the original game. of all NES cartridges, the super elusive and Deception is due out in October, very exclusive Nintendo World Championship Shock and as yet the limited editions have 1990 cartridge in its ultra-rare gold form. only been announced for release in the US. Mortal Kombat fans Original Mortal shouldn’t miss Midway’s Arcade Kombat graces Treasures 2 either, as it features new game Mortal Kombat II & III. Also out in October, this collection features Fans of Mortal Kombat will be over 20 classic arcade games pleased to hear that limited besides Mortal Kombat, including editions of the latest game in the Championship Sprint, NARC, Total blood-soaked series will contain a Carnage and Gauntlet 2. player, MPEG/DivX movie player This cartridge was made specifically for a To The and Megadrive emulator. gaming competition that Nintendo ran in We’ve played around with 1990. It featured three NES favourites – Max the product and discovered that Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer and Tetris – the emulator is an updated which had to be played in that order for six Play Megadrive version of Sjeep’s popular PGEN minutes.