Retro Gamer issue 266 is on sale today, and celebrates Tekken's 30th anniversary! The mag also includes a ZX Spectrum 2025 calendar. Also inside: Fairlight Capcom CPS1 Stunt Race FX Colin McRae Rally World Of Warcraft And more Buy it in stores or online ..read more

If you enjoyed ZX Nightmares, you might want to support @Wizwords latest book. It's on Kickstarter now ..read more

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Issue 265 of Retro Gamer is on sale today, with Sega's Takashi Iizuka looking back at the making of Sonic Generations! Also inside: Riven Rastan Fire Truck Project Eden Amstrad CPC464 Tinhead CYGNI: All Guns Blazing And more! Buy it in stores or online ..read more

We're a big fan of @PlaytonicGames output and its remaster of Yooka-Laylee is looking very nice indeed ..read more

This review originally appeared in Sega Power issue 86, December 1996 Has the best ever third-party game just arrived for the Saturn? Well you’ll just have to read the review, won’t you. Tomb Raider has always looked a bit special. When we previewed it (exclusively, I might add) back in Issue 78, we had to double-check which shots were artwork and which actually came from the game. We’ve been following the game’s progress ever since and now seven months later we finally have our finished copy. I must admit to a degree of pre- game cynicism. Can a game that looks and moves as well as Tomb Raid ..read more

I generally consider myself quite lucky to be able to play videogames, as it’s not something to be taken for granted. One of my younger sisters developed arthritis at an early age, and eventually found that playing her Nintendo DS was just caused her too much pain to be worthwhile. There’s little that can be done to work around that, but other barriers to accessibility are sometimes overlooked. For example, I remember hearing of a friend of a friend whose experience with Sonic Mania was soured by the inclusion of the Mean Bean Machine boss, as they were colour-blind and this had never been a p ..read more

Year Released: 1983 Original Price: £199 Buy It Now For: £20+ Associated magazines: Electron User, Micro User, Acorn User, A&B Computing, Acorn Programs Why The Acorn Electron Was Great: The Electron offered the main functionality of the BBC B at half the size, and at a fraction of the cost. It had strong software backing, and boasted one of the best keyboards of any computer, with great feel and responsiveness and a variety of shortcuts to common BASIC commands. And it was built to last, too. After the roaring success of the BBC Microcomputer, Acorn was a company going places. It had conq ..read more

One of the benefits of growing up with older cousins was the hand-me-downs that you’d get, and the first time I benefited from that in a gaming sense was when I was given a Commodore 64 in 1994. My cousins were teenagers, and they’d made the switch up to the Mega Drive and SNES, so the trusty breadbin went to me. For the most part, the games they gave me were exactly what you’d expect – lots of sports stuff, TV and film licences like Ghostbusters and Knightmare, and of course arcade conversions like Space Harrier, Double Dragon and Paperboy. But like me, one or the other had an eye for silly c ..read more

It’s hard to believe with today’s insane prices, but videogames could be bought for as cheaply as £1.99 back in the Eighties. These budget games became extremely popular, with companies such as Codemasters starting off this way. One of the most popular however was Mastertronic, which had a host of games that covered all sorts of different genres. Here we talk to the people who helped found this company, which is still going strong today. 1983. You are standing in a shop, probably one of the major chains on the high street such as WHSmith or Boots. There are rows and rows of bright and shiny ca ..read more