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Sega Special Back to Skool Mortal Kombat Gaming Ages RG17 Cover UK.qxd:RG17 Cover UK.qxd 20/9/06 16:09 Page 1 retro gamer COMMODORE • SEGA • NINTENDO • ATARI • SINCLAIR • ARCADE * VOLUME TWO ISSUE FIVE Sega Special Game Gear, Mega-CD & Sonic Back to Skool ...with the game’s creators Gaming Ages Dawn of the digital era Mortal Kombat Blood ‘n’ guts gaming Retro Gamer 17 £5.99 UK $14.95 AUS V2 $27.70 NZ 05 Untitled-1 1 1/9/06 12:55:47 RG17 Intro/Contents.qxd:RG17 Intro/Contents.qxd 20/9/06 16:27 Page 3 <EDITORIAL> Editor = Martyn "Faxe & Dab" Carroll ([email protected]) Deputy Editor = Aaron Birch ([email protected]) Art Editor = Craig Chubb Sub Editors = Rachel White + James Clark Contributors = Alicia Ashby + Roy Birch Simon Brew + Richard Burton Jonti Davies + Adam Dawes Paul Drury + Frank Gasking Mark Green + Damien Kapa Craig LewisPer + Arne Sandvik Spanner Spencer + John Szczepaniak <PUBLISHING & ADVERTISING> Operations Manager = Glen Urquhart Group Sales Manager = Linda Henry Advertising Sales = Danny Bowler Accounts Manager = ow great are normally a problem in Retro take place in Kenilworth. 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Box 2769, Plattsburgh, NY 12901-1329. q 3 q RG17 Intro/Contents.qxd:RG17 Intro/Contents.qxd 20/9/06 16:27 Page 4 >Content v2.05 Retro Revival p16 Japan Happy Play Noise p18 Aaron Birch looks back at the history of Our man in Japan returns with a fresh dose of gaming’s cheesiest action hero, Duke Nukem Eastern-flavoured retro gaming Sega Game Gear p26 Next Level Gaming p36 Damien Kapa charts the tragic life and times of Aaron Birch follows the highs and lows of Sega’s handheld console Sega’s Mega-CD system Global Gaming p52 Play to Win p56 John Szczepaniak continues his travels, Adam Dawes looks at the gifts that were up for stopping off this month in Holland grabs in the heady days of early 8-bit gaming q 4 q RG17 Intro/Contents.qxd:RG17 Intro/Contents.qxd 20/9/06 16:27 Page 5 >Regulars Retro News p06 Four pages of the latest retro news, including our exclusive report from this year’s E3 event Back to the Eighties p10 A look back at what was happening in the gaming world 20 years ago this month Desert Island Disks p20 Paul Drury chats with freelance games Retro Rated p12 programmer Paul Carruthers Retro Gamer reviews the latest plug ‘n’ play devices on the market Killer Apps p72 Simon Brew examines the appeal of Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog Games That Weren’t p74 Frank Gasking takes a stroll through the gaming graveyard and turns up Atari’s long- lost Combat Two Strange Games p76 Per Arne Sandvik looks back at some of the weirdest games to ever hit the SNES The Old School p44 Mark Green talks to the creators of Skool Daze, High Score p78 Dave Reidy and Keith Warrington Paul Drury talks to Perry Rogers, the best Mario Bros. player in the world... ever! Retro Scene p82 News direct from the retro community, including reviews of the latest scene releases Retro Forum p86 Four glorious pages of reader feedback and Web forum posts Retro Auction Watch p91 Richard Burton keeps his eye on the wonderful world of eBay A Brief History of Videogames Part 2 p62 Spanner Spencer follows the history of Retro Coverdisc p92 videogames through the 70s and early 80s The best 2D shoot-em-ups on this month’s shiny cover CD Endgame p98 Sonic draws another issue to a close q 5 q RG17 Retro News.qxd:RG17 Retro News.qxd 20/9/06 16:46 Page 6 Namco is 50! Pac-Man creator celebrates birthday in style Namco has never been a The new release, imaginatively company afraid of re-releasing titled Namco 50th Anniversary, its classic back catalogue to a will appear on all major formats new generation of fans, and including PC, PlayStation 2, we’ve had plenty of retro Xbox, GameCube and GameBoy releases from the games giant Advance – so no matter what over the last few years. Namco your poison, you should be able is now gearing up to launch a to grab hold of a copy. All home new range of classic arcade versions will feature 14 of retro offerings. The titles on to the Xbox Live service. titles, this time to celebrate its Namco’s greatest hits, with the offer in the full-grown version The smaller, but perfectly 50th anniversary. GBA incarnation housing five are Bosconian, Dig Dug, Dragon formed, GBA version will contain Spirit, Galaga, Galaxian, Mappy, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Dig Dug and Rally X. Strangely, Position, Pole Position II, Rally this ‘new’ GBA outing is almost X, Rolling Thunder, Sky Kid and the same as the already Xevious. The pack will include a available Namco Museum which hub section in the guise of a has been doing the rounds since virtual arcade hall in which 2001. Oh well. you’ll be able to walk around No firm release date is known and select games at your at the time of writing, but we’ll leisure, and Xbox owners will be have a full review as soon as we able to upload their best scores can put our greasy mitts on it. Arcade Memories PlayStation 2 collection stirs recollections Last month we revealed that some later games including there was a new Taito collection Elevator Action Returns, Space on the radar, but as we went to Invaders DX and Puchi Carat. print no information on the But given the large number game was available. Well, of Japanese-oriented wonder no longer as details of titles in this pack, pack will be on 28 July. If all goes well, we’d this new Taito product have don’t be surprised exclusive to the expect a US release date a couple been announced. if the final line- PlayStation 2. of months later, and a European Taito Arcade Memories Vol.1 up changes for At the date a little after that. Plus, as will be a generous retro- its eventual moment, a this is titled Vol. 1, we’d also powered compilation of 25 of Western release. Western expect to see further collections the company’s most fondly All the games release date isn’t in the near future. After all, there remembered titles, featuring old are going to be known, but the are greats such as Rainbow favourites such as Space the coin-op Japanese Islands, The New Zealand Story Invaders, Darius, Rastan Saga versions, version will and Puzzle Bubble/Bust-a-Move and Bubble Bobble, as well as and the be in stores yet to come. q 6 q RG17 Retro News.qxd:RG17 Retro News.qxd 20/9/06 16:46 Page 7 REGULAR | RETRO NEWS Gunstars The latest retro news given to you straight Sighted ‘Super’ details revealed… Sega has ending speculation by officially announcing Gunstar Super Heroes, the eagerly awaited update of Treasure’s Mega Drive classic.
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