Retro

Previously, on Thumb Culture…. part 2 of our look at the ancient (1980s)gaming practice of the Type-In game.

Back in the Jurassic mists of early gaming there was a time that today’s gamers would find almost unbelievable

Hard to believe, but Sega’s Saturn console is now 17 years old (in fact its birthday was last week). The Saturn was a console that was, in some ways, marked for failure in some ways before launch.  If they ever make a Hollywood movie of its life, the voiceover on the trailer would probably say [...]

It’s Shadow of the Colossus for the ZX Spectrum! Oh wait, it’s not. The big dinosaurs got me a bit confused there for a moment. Kokotoni Wilf is a platform game for the ZX spectrum, one of the many released around the time the nation couldn’t get enough Jet Set Willy. The juxtaposition (word of [...]

  Microsoft’s Darth Vader of a console is 10 years old today.  Initially sneered at due to its connection to the ‘hiss boo’ villain of the day, Bill Gates, the original Xbox console gradually won respect…right up until the moment it was unceremoniously dropped for the 360. And so to salute what may be the [...]

You never forget your first console. Unless it happens to have the name Binatone on the side that is.

Unless you live next door to Roger Moore, you probably don’t know anyone who rides a Jet Ski very often.

Ristar is not a cult game. It’s not a hidden classic. 

When most people think of this generation of consoles they might feel like they are being screwed over. Games at their highest prices, content being left out and sold as DLC, and a casual market that is overtaking the hardcore.

You can do a lot of things whilst the average PS3 game installs: conquer a land empire bigger than Genghis Khan’s, compose a symphony, or maybe even do that pesky tax return.  Installing (or loading as we retro chaps call it) is indeed an old problem.