Retro Gamer Issue 50 - Dreamcast BR

106 Pages·2008·25.48 MB·English

by  Imagine Publishing

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FAVOURITE GAME FEATURING ZOMBIES
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DARRAN JONES MARTYN CARROLL a magazine called Retro
I know Resident Evil 4 doesn’t feature any The original Resident Evil, without a doubt. Gamer, I was far from happy.
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humble opinion), therefore it gets in via an dudes were by far the most frightening. retro section into its own mini-magazine
editorial overrule. Expertise: Sir Clive Sinclair’s rubbery
Expertise: Killing rare fish by leaving the filter wonder machine and now a rival publisher was intending to
pipe unblocked Currently playing:
Currently playing: House Of The Dead III come along and encroach on my turf and
A
Mr Driller Online Favourite game of all time:
no doubt get all the kudos. What a cheek!
Favourite game of all time: Jet Set Willy
Robotron: 2084 It’s now several years later and I realise that
if it wasn’t for Live Publishing and the efforts
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of Martyn Carroll, Aaron Birch and Shaun
Bebbington, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Fifty issues is a long time for any mag, but it’s
L an amazing achievement for one as niche as
RG and it’s all thanks to the original staff. They
kick-started something special under another
publisher that is still going strong today and you
can read about the whole story on page 40.
But that’s not all. To celebrate this
monumental achievement we wanted to do
STUART HUNT ASHLEY DAY something a bit different, so on this page
Seeing as Resident Evil 4 doesn’t actually It’s predictable but I have to go for the original (and many subsequent ones) you’ll find short
have any zombies in it, per se. It has to be Resident Evil. The hammy story, the lack
the Resident Evil remake on the Cube – the of ammo, the fixed camera angles… they stories from 50 people within the industry, each
next best looking, and most atmospheric all made you feel like you were really in a
game on the console (in my opinion). horror film. It’s the cheesy dialogue that really discussing the games that changed their lives.
Expertise: endears Resident Evil to me though. “You
Games with flying bits in them were almost a Jill sandwich!” There’s also an article on page 24 where
Currently playing: Expertise: The games of Team 17, MSX, 50 readers share their best gaming
Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Sega’s Shining Force series
Game Of The Movie Currently playing: moments, and let’s face
Favourite game of all time: Super Smash Bros Brawl
Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Favourite game of all time: it, if anyone deserves
Game of the Movie Shining Force III
coverage in this mag, it’s
the people who helped us
to get where we are now.
Enjoy the magazine
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At-a-glance retro sections…
6 NEWS
Help save the wonderful
Museum of Computing
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something back to the mag
16 COLLECTOR’S CORNER
Benjamin Robinson has a
magazine collection to die for
20 BACK TO THE NINETIES
Richard Burton charts the
arrival of the Game Boy
22 RETRO REVIVAL
Holy smokes Batman, you’re
in an 8-bit videogame
36 THE CLASSIC GAME
Rediscover Howard Scott
Warshaw’s Yars’ Revenge
38 RETRO REVIVAL
Which 8-bit version of Elite’s
Thundercats was the best?
72 PERFECT TEN THE
COMPLETE
Ten Dreamcast titles to make
LOWDOWN
your life that little bit better
76 THE GALLERY
A lovely collection of Sega
arcade games to drool over
92 RETRO RATED
Your latest guide to the very
READER SPECIAL ZOMBIE NATION DESERT ISLAND DISKS
best downloadable classics
YOUR BEST GAMING MOMENTS THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD CELEBRITY SPECIAL
109 CLASSIFIEDS 24 To celebrate our special 50th issue, 30 Sega’s popular undead blaster has been 62 In a change from our usual feature,
50 of our readers share their all-time terrorising us for 12 long years. Discover Lemmy, Gaz Top and Simon Munnery
favourite gaming moments. why it’s remained so popular. discuss the game they can’t live without.
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56In an exclusive new interview, Retro 80 His striking images have graced some 86It’s seen as one of the C64’s best
Gamer talks to Treasure about one of of Psygnosis’s most popular games. platformers, but Nintendo wasn’t a fan.
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>> GIVE US TWO MINUTES AND WE’LL GIVE YOU THE RETRO WORLD
RETRORADAR
THE UK’S FIRST MUSEUM
THE GUIDE
What’s hot this issue…
OF COMPUTING COULD
6 SWINDON GAMING
MUSEUM IN TROUBLE
6 HERO OF THE MONTH SOON BE HOMELESS
7 SEUCK GETS UPDATED
7 LOADING SCREEN OF
THE MONTH
STOP AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF RETRO HISTORY FROM DISAPPEARING
7 YET ANOTHER STREET
FIGHTER IV NEWS
STORY FOR YOU
8 GAUNTLET RETURNS
8 GAMESTATION TO
STOP SELLING RETRO?
8 VILLAIN OF THE
MONTH
8 RETRO FUSION ’08
10 DIARY
This Street Fighter screenshot had us frothing at the mouth in excitement.
A clip from Sir Clive Sinclair’s Men In Black audition tape.
W
e start our 50th issue on a
rather sobering note. We
recently learned that the
Museum of Computing
faces eviction in July as the University
of Bath withdraws from the Oakfield
campus, where the museum is based.
The national treasure, which
is sponsored by Blue Click and Intel
and commonly referred to as the The world’s cleanest NES and the world’s worst peripheral. Almost brings a tear to our eyes.
‘UK’s Silicon Valley’, boasts over 5,000
software and hardware exhibits and Alan Sugar’s Amstrad machines, and setup. Also, if anyone has 75m2 of
around 1,500 specialist books, manuals ‘Calculator’, which was opened by Sir exhibition space in London that they can
and magazines. Clive Sinclair and showcased his limited- willingly loan the Museum for a temporary
The Museum costs the public edition, gold-plated Sinclair Sovereign four-month period, they would really
nothing to run, and is a non-profit calculator. The museum’s current appreciate it if you could get in touch.
CCOONNRRAADD BB HHAARRTT organisation run entirely by volunteers exhibition ‘Pong to PlayStation’, focuses Or, if anyone can suggest any alternative
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NO 32: MEGA-BUCKS
SPONSORED BY
Mega-Bucks was a weird spectrum version of
Brewster’s Millions. Well, if Richard Pryor was NEWS
a yellow, teleporting LA Rams fan who had to
explore a colourful manor house to find objects
to get past puzzles and obstacles. It’s not a bad
little game to be fair, and this ugly loading screen
simply doesn’t do the game any justice.
JUST IN WE WERE WORRYING THAT WE WOULDN’T HAVE A NEWS STORY ABOUT SEGA THIS ISSUE, BUT WE’VE
JUST HEARD THAT SUPER MONKEY BALL WILL BE HEADING TO APPLE’S iPHONE. THAT WAS CLOSE…
SIDEWAYS SEUCK scroll routine. The difference now is that the Kit
itself works horizontally; initially scrolling from left to
right, with a second version to create a right-to-left
scroller imminent. “After the right-scrolling version
is complete I will be adding a few routines to allow
ACCORDING TO ANDREW FISHER the inclusion of rotating specific characters, and
exploding multiple enemies, joined or unjoined.
T That will reduce the size of the map by about 5 per
he Shoot’Em-Up Construction Kit work with the original, make the modifications and cent, however,” says Jon.
(SEUCK) was Sensible Software’s utility squeeze everything back in without compromising As well as the new versions of the Kit, you can
to let people make their own games. The anything. That was the hardest part to accomplish, read Jon’s diary about developing the modifications
C64 version was particularly versatile as there was no spare memory when I started.” and download a small demo game to show how
considering that hundreds of vertically scrolling The Kit is very simple – draw the sprites and it works. To find out more, visit Andrew Fisher’s
games were created with it. Now, programmer Jon background graphics, add the enemies to the level SEUCK Vault website, www.seuckvault.co.uk. It
Wells has turned things upside down – or, more by moving them how you want them to move, includes hints and tips on using SEUCK, articles
correctly, modified the kit to produce horizontally and then save. Jon had tried to make a horizontally and reviews, and a games archive. At the time of
scrolling games. “It was very time-consuming,” scrolling game before – called Breakthrough – by writing there is one new game – Richard Bayliss’s
admits Jon. “I had to create my own routines to saving data from SEUCK and programming a new Imaginator – created with the sideways SEUCK!
THE NEW INTRO SCREEN ADDING ATTACK WAVES EDITING A LEVEL MAP THE DEMO GAME BASED ON JON’S
HORIZONTALLY BREAKTHROUGH, RESCUE THE LITTLE
BLUE MEN FOR EXTRA POINTS
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forgotten his past, and only has three Street Fighter II Turbo, set after The when the game does eventually find
recollections: his name is Abel, he World Warrior and before SFIII. We can a console release, a few more familiar
can fight with mixed-style martial also confirm that all eight of the original faces will probably be making the cut as
arts, and he hates ‘Shadowloo’ (you’ll fighters will return, and Balrog and well. We’ll no doubt keep you informed.
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LAST-MINUTE NEWS
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RETAIL STORE TO START DROPPING RETRO
You can still buy retro games from the Gamestation
I website at the moment, so why not get online and boost
f you’ve popped into your local boxes, seem to have finally come to an your collection while you still can.
Please include the arcade originals Eidos. Gamestation recently, then you end.
may have noticed that there’s Now there are probably some
GAUNTLET COMING TO DS,
AND IT LOOKS RATHER something missing. Where once business analysts out there that would
DANDY (SCOFF) stood lovely boxes of retro-gaming argue that this is simply ‘good business
RUN THE goodness, now stands a rack of sense’ by the games retailer, because,
GAUNTLET… ‘Raccoon City Police Dept’ man bags, after all, if the retro section was making
iPods – which you can pretty much it any kind of profit, there would be no
AGAIN
buy more readily than milk nowadays rhyme or reason to get rid of them.
Eidos is bringing a new version – and belts made out of Nintendo Perhaps a contributing factor is the
of the Atari hack-‘n’-slash controllers. increasing popularity of online auction
classic Gauntlet to the DS. Yes, the only defining aspect, or USP, websites and a few internet-based
Backbone Entertainment, who
that separated Gamestation from every import and retro-game specialists
some of you may know from
the Sonic Rivals games, are other shop that sells videogames might emerging – meaning that all the good set the record straight – we’ve seen a
behind the project. It’s said to soon be sadly lost, with the tragic news stuff gets flogged on the internet, and the few of your opinions about the different
be making full use of the DS’s that the retail giant is running down its lovelorn Maddens and FIFAs get filtered experiences you’ve had when visiting
Wi-Fi capabilities and the DS retro stock across its stores. And that down and collected on shop shelves. your local store and asked what’s going
Microphone (which should
come packed with the game). means the Interestingly, if you have a look at the on.
It will also introduce a few new days of seeing Gamestation website, you’ll notice that it If this is true, then there is perhaps one
gameplay styles to the series shelves stacked includes a retro-gaming section, and that shred of good news for collectors: the
as well, the most interesting with 17 copies you can still bag yourself a few classic scarcity of your collection will probably
being ‘baiting’, which allows
of Hogan’s titles by ordering online. So perhaps the go up, and, ironically, crappy games like
one player to draw enemies
away from the other and attract Alley, 40 Game intention is to keep retro games online. Robocop Versus The Terminator will
a whole bunch of supernatural Boy Colors and What has outraged a few of you on the become rare and valuable commodities.
agro, à la Army Of Two. The dying Sega forum is the rumour that the retro stock So don’t ditch that copy of Shaq-Fu you
game is set for a summer Saturn game is being collected up and destroyed. bought in a large eBay haul just yet, you
release in the US, so expect it to
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they’re hot this rumour – we invite Gamestation to Silvergun prices in no time.
RETRO FUSION ’08
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car journey’s get stuffier and cater to your spending needs.
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FFiirrsstt aappppeeaarraannccee:: Star Fox – which our very own fearless anchorman set to be a great two days. If you want to
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HHee’’ss aa mmoonnkkeeyy ccuubbee because on 19 and 20 July, Retro Fusion to order tickets, then take a trip over to
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MMoosstt LLiikkeellyy ttoo:: Suck you in and spit you out lyrical about retro games, show off your The first 50 people to buy a ticket will
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Football Club, and attending the event will going to the Everyman charity. The queue for Santa’s grotto was getting bigger.
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Every month we’ll be listing exciting games and events for you to add to your ‘to do’ list
MAY MAY JUNE JUNE
IKARUGA SUPER SMASH SONIC CHRONICLES LEGO INDIANA JONES
BROS BRAWL
Released: May Released: June Released: June
Publisher: Treasure Released: 30 May Publisher: Sega Publisher: LucasArts
Price: 800 points (£6) Publisher: Nintendo Price: TBC Price: £49.99
Format: Xbox Live Arcade Price: £34.99 Format: DS Format: Xbox 360, PS3, DS, Wii, PS2
While Xbox Live Arcade is continuing Format: Wii The teaming up of Sega and BioWare Traveller’s Tales is at it again, raiding
to gain momentum on the classic It’s taking a fair amount of time, but to bring a new Sonic RPG to the DS has LucasArts’ back catalogue and a box
games front, its tendency to leave we’ve fi nally been able to secure a all the elements to be something very of Danish building blocks to rebuild the
announcements until the last minute is copy of Smash Bros and it’s absolutely special. Although we don’t have a lot three original Indy tales in Lego. And
starting to annoy us a little. Hopefully brilliant. We would have reviewed it this of info at the moment, there are a few we can’t wait. Lego Star Wars was a
Treasure’s superb blaster will actually very issue, but there’s literally so much screenshots fl oating around the internet. lot of fun and there’s no reason that
appear this month, but if it doesn’t at to uncover on it that we’ve decided to It looks like battles will be turn-based the developer can’t produce the same
least you have our glowing review on spend a little more time on it. Sonic has Final Fantasy affairs and the visual look magic again. We’re a little bit concerned
page 92 to keep you going. Let’s hope quickly become the brawler of choice, will be a beautiful mix of Hayao Miyazaki- about the direction it’ll be going for ‘Lego
that other Dreamcast releases follow. but Snake gets a lot of play as well. style artistry and Sonic Rivals-style pixels. Labyrinth’, ‘Lego Willow’ though?
JUNE JULY JULY OCTOBER
NEW INTERNATIONAL SOUL CALIBUR IV RETRO FUSION ’08 TOMB RAIDER:
TRACK & FIELD UNDERWORLD
Released: July Dates: 19-20 July
Released: June Publisher: Namco Location: Leamington Rugby Club, Released: October
Publisher: Konami Price: £49.99 Warwickshire Publisher: Eidos
Price: £29.99 Format: Xbox 360, PS3 Admission: £12 Price: £49.99
Format: DS Namco’s popular swashbuckling franchise Website: www.retrofusiononline. Format: Xbox 360, PS3
It’s back in the diary, yes, and it would is soon to be making its way to next-gen com/event08 You can’t really blame Eidos for releasing
appear that New International Track & consoles. The early word, so far, has We’ve always enjoyed our trips to Chris a third title in as many years. Following
Field is going all Super Smash Bros on been pretty positive and is something to Wilkins’ retro events, and after a brief on directly from Legend, Lara once again
us, adding more characters and pushing the tune of new characters, including the break we’re expecting his latest to be fi nds herself up to her pretty neck in
back its release date until highly volatile Jedi Master Yoda for the Xbox 360 and bbeetttteerr tthhaann eevveerr.. TTaakkiinngg ppllaaccee aatt aa bbrraanndd bad guys and ancient artefacts. Expect
tempers explode. To be honest, we’re the Sith Lord Vader for the PS3, plenty of nneeww llooccaattiioonn,, aanndd oonnccee aaggaaiinn ssuuppppoorrttiinngg puzzles, a better aiming system, and a
not too bothered that we have to wait play modes and an online battle feature EEvveerryymmaann,, RReettrroo FFuussiioonn ’’0088 iiss aallrreeaaddyy oonn clever new engine that keeps track of
a little longer to get our hands on the – which is only making us all the more oouurr ttoo ddoo lliissttss aanndd iiff yyoouu’’rree aa ffaann ooff rreettrroo incidental things like tracks in mud and
game, as we’re sure Sumo Digital will eager for this game’s summer release. ggaammiinngg aanndd ddrriinnkkiinngg wwee ssuuggggeesstt yyoouu dead bodies so you can fi nd your way
knock this one out the park fi ttingly. We’ll play the DC version while we wait. sign up for tickets pretty sharpish. around more easily.
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