Matt ‘Kapow’ Dawson (left) and Carl Lewis Jenking podcasting live from The Retro Station Our editor Stuart Williams was lucky enough to be invited to check out a new but increasingly popular retro gaming event with a modern edge in Cannock last Saturday. The Retro Station is the brainchild of podcasters Matt ‘Kapow’ Dawson (the event [...]
View from the stage at REVIVAL Solstice 2016 – click to enlarge Last July saw veteran retro gaming/arcade show organisers Revival Retro Events make a triumphant return to the retro scene at a brand-new venue following a break from major events since 2014. Breaking new ground for the show, and for Walsall, REVIVAL Solstice 2016 took place for [...]
Somebody on this adventure clearly loves Rush, like our editor! An exciting new 8-bit retro role-playing game (RPG) has been announced for WIndows PC’s, Apple Macs and classic Commodore 64/128 home computers. Unknown Realm: The Siege Perilous, a fantasy-based game inspired by the classic RPGs of the 1980s, is the subject of a new Kickstarter campaign [...]
Venue set up for last February’s event – click to enlarge The Retro Computer Museum (RCM) are coming to Kendal Road Baptist Church in Gloucester, England, for their first off-site retro gaming event of the year – and the largest retro event in Gloucestershire! The event, which takes place on Saturday 11 February 2017 from [...]
A project to produce books detailing the history of Mastertronic budget computer games has gone live on Kickstarter. Founded in 1983 by Martin Alper, Frank Herman and Alan Sharam, British company Mastertronic went on to become one of the UK’s biggest home video game publishers of the 1980s. The company’s marketing strategy of putting games on [...]