Classic Gaming - #1

SPECTRUM | AMIGA | MEGA DRIVE | PLAYSTATION | NINTENDO 64 ...

Having been unable to break Nintendo’s dominance during the 8-bit era, Sega decided the best way to turn heads their way was wit ...

Manufacturer SEGA Processor Motorola 68000 Units sold 35 million Released 198 8 SPECTRUM | AMIGA | MEGA DRIVE | PLAYSTATION | NI ...

Developer Sonic Team Publisher Sega Genre Platform Released 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog GAMESRADAR PRESENTS CLASSIC GAMING VOL.1 ...

The musical “SE-GAAA!”, the bright title screen and that earworm theme tune before you hit start and were thrust into the Green ...

The pinball madness of the Spring Yard Zone had its fans, and there something gently hallucinatory about those rotating special ...

Wherever Sonic may be, you can be sure that his arch-nemesis Dr Ivo Robotnik isn’t too far away, lingering like a bad smell. The ...

Developer Sega Publisher Sega Genre Beat-’em-up Released 198 8 Altered Beast GAMESRADAR PRESENTS CLASSIC GAMING VOL.1 01 Stage 2 ...

We use the term ‘classic’ advisedly here. Though memorably designed, stage 2’s final encounter could be over in seconds – with a ...

Developer Electronic Arts Publisher Electronic Arts Genre Shoot ‘em up Released 1992 Desert Strike Return to the Gulf A tense fi ...

Nothing quite prepared you for the moment where 24 Kazakh officers join together to form a centipede mech wielding a hammer and ...

Despite its lack of an NFL licence (the teams are instead loosely based on the colours and locations of real NFL teams of the ti ...

Conclusive proof that not everything sports-related EA touched turned to gold. This questionable fighter saw Orlando Magic cente ...

Streets of Rage GAMESRADAR PRESENTS CLASSIC GAMING VOL.1 ...

Unlike Double Dragon and Final Fight, Streets of Rage had a playable woman on its roster. Blaze was, admittedly, a female archet ...

Streets of Rage had an embarrassment of riches in this regard, from lanky hipsters with boomerangs to backflipping twins and an ...

Like most beat-’em-ups, Streets of Rage is more fun with two players – but many a friendship swiftly turned sour during the fina ...

Developer Toejam & Earl Productions Publisher Sega Genre Action Released 1991 Toejam & Earl 01 01 The boombox is one of ...

T oejam & Earl are two jammin’ alien rappers who have had the misfortune of crash- landing their spaceship on the weirdest, ...

Jim’s standard Plasma Blaster was fun to shoot not least for its hero’s hilariously dramatic stances while aiming – but he is, ...