2019-04-01_Retro_Gamer

CONTENTS

Load 192 Breathing new life into classic games

06 The Science Museum

levels up

Mark Cutmore on his new project

08 News wall

D&D classics arrive on consoles and the

Olivers find another Dizzy game in their lo

10 The Vault

We take a look at a tidy modded GBA, a hey

RPG tome and more

12 Rob Hubbard

We catch up with the acclaimed musician to

talk all things Project Hubbard

16 Mr Biffo

This month our columnist looks at *checks

page twice* “old game stink”. Lovely.

17 A Moment With...

We catch up with the mind behind the CBBC

successor to Knightmare

18 Back To The Noughties

Nick groans in horror and boredom as he

tumbles into a pretty fallow month

20 hadow Of The Beast IIS

For one time only, Darran spends an entire

paragraph talking about amazing graphics

74 Hyper Duel

Guess who bought a PVM monitor? Guess

who’s talking about scanlines? (It’s Daz)

96 The King Of Fighters

99: Evolution

Nick returns to his university days of

multiplayer madness

FEATURED

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My First Month At

Ocean Soware

Mark R Jones walks us through his arrival

at the acclaimed soware house

30 Retro Inspired:

Yoshi’s Craed World

Etsunobu Ebisu on creating the dinosaur’s

brand-new adventure

36 The Evolution of:

Head Over Heels

Rory Milne examines the origins and

influences of the isometric hit puzzler

50 Arcade Perfect:

Robotron 2084

Bask in the glory of the greatest twin-stick

shooter coin-op ever created

52 The Making of:

Space Taxi

John F Kutcher looks back at his

Commodore 64 adventure

56 Cl assic Moments: Panic

Nick provides two pages of your finest 16-bit

nightmare fuel

58 Ul timate Guide:

Road Runner

Martyn Carroll guides you through this

tricky coin-op

64 From The Archives:

Mythos Games

Julian Gollop talks us through the life and

death of his strategy specialist studio

70 Th e Making Of: Skitchin’

Adam Barnes grabs the tail-end of Dave

Warfield’s car to reveal the origin story of

this unique Mega Drive title

80 Th e Making Of: Aerlife

We go behind the scenes of one of

Lucasarts’ strangest games that sees you

managing both heaven and hell

REVIVALS

RETRO RADAR^22

Shigefumi Hino and Takashi Tezuka take us behind the

scenes of the SNES classic that put Yoshi in his first starring role

The Making Of:

Yoshi’s Island

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