2019-04-01_Retro_Gamer

STAGES OF EVOLUTION:Alternating Characters SABREMAN AND WULF QIt often makes no difference which of Knight Lore’s dual identiti ...

» [Amstrad CPC] Like Batman, Head Over Heels has a few rooms that span t wo or three screens. » [Atari ST ] The Atari ST Head Ov ...

BBC Micro I n one of life’s cruel jokes, the most recognisable machine that Acorn Computers ever released didn’t bear the Acorn ...

EDITOR’S CHOICE Elite Certain games need no introduction, and we’d imagine that Elite is one of them. As well as being one of th ...

» At tempts at a Wizball logo drawn before the ar t work for the game had been completed. ones I’d been playing for the last thr ...

MY FIRST MONTH AT OCEAN SOFTWARE » Let ter from the Spectrum Mag Max coder, Gary Knight, with details of sprite size and frames ...

» Mark K Jones, Shaun Ridings, Steve Lavache and John Brandwood at work down in Ocean’s programming department. » Musician Jonat ...

» [ Z X Spectrum] My work composing music for Arkanoid only took me a couple of hours. » Here I am posing with t wo of the sales ...

“After hours of work, my ñUVWbDWWHPSWKDGWREH scrapped completely” SAY NO TO STRANGERS QThis Spectrum loading screen shows a ...

WIZBALL (ZX SPECTRUM) Q Simon Butler helped me with the initial layout when we worked out how to translate Bob Wakelin’s artwork ...

Q The two-stick layout for Robotron came about because Eugene’s arm was in plaster after an automobile accident and he wanted to ...

SYSTEM SUPPLIED BY ARCADE CLUB SY S Y T EM S UP PL IE D BY A R C A D E C L U B STANDOUT MOMENTBeware the brainsThere are plenty ...

M y mom saw an article in our local newspaper about two kids that had built this game,” John begins. “I went me, that’s somethin ...

THE MAKING OF: SPACE TAXITHE MAKING OF: SPACE TAXI after I said, ‘I had one I wanted to get published.’ I heard, ‘Wait, wait!’ I ...

everything together. I took a microphone and ran wires through transistors into an analogue- to-digital converter, hooked to the ...

THE MAKING OF: SPACE TAXITHE MAKKING OF: SPACE TAXI energy into the next title. I respect all the people at MUSE, they gave me a ...

Panic! Y ou never were the sort of person that could wait for new technology, but this time you feel like you might have made a ...

MORE CLASSIC PANIC! MOMENTS This one caught us by surprise when we first saw it. The sky in the background of the famous paintin ...

58 | RETRO GAMER Atari’s Road Runner arcade game is far from the finest cartoon licence. It’s not even the best game based on th ...

ULTIMATE GUIDE: ROAD RUNNER I t’s not hard to see why the Road Runner and Wile E Coyote cartoons are so popular with kids. The s ...