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A new issue of Retro Gamer is available. This is some of the things you can read in issue 74 of Retro Gamer:

• Back to the Eighties – March 1983
• Back to the Ninteties – September 1992
• The Definitive Ghosts ‘n Goblins
• The Making of… Xor
• Retroinspection: Sam Coupe
• The making of… Spy vs Spy triology
• Controlling History
• Import Only: Aquales
• The Making of… Tapper
• The Classic Game: The Newzealand Story
• Coin-op Capers: Double Dragon
• The Making of Puggsy

Retro Gamer can be bought from ImagineShop.co.uk. You could also check out RetroGamer.net.

This is what you can read in issue 73 of Retro Gamer:

• Back to the Eighties – February 1988
• Back to the Nineties – August 1992
• The Ultimate Hero: The Complete History of Sabreman
• The Making of… Return Fire
• Import Only: La Abadia Del Crimen
• From the Arcihves: Durell Software
• The Making of… Simon
• The Classic Game – Uridium
• The Unconverted
• The Making of… Dan Dare
• Retroinspection: Colecovision
• The Making of… Return of the Jedi
• In the Chair with… Martyn Brown

You can by Retro Gamer from Imagineshop.co.uk.

I know that issue 73 is allready out, but sometimes this post comes very late. Anyway, this is some of the things you can read in Retro Gamer issue 72:

• Back to the Eighties – January 1988
• Back to the Nineties – July 1992
• Coin-op Capers: Nemesis
• The Making of… Frenzy
• The Classic Game – The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
• Retroinspection: Sinclair ZX80
• Why You Must Play: Flying Shark
• The Making of… Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom og Shadow Over Mystara
• Import Only: Pulseman
• A decade of Fallout
• The Making of… Driver
• The Making of… Bubble Ghost
• In the Chair with… Stephen Crow

You can order Retro Gamer from ImagineShop.co.uk.

I’m a big fan of the Retro Gamer magazine and I’m a subscriber. From time to time they release a bookazine. This time it’s the Videogames Hardware Handbook which gives you the articles about videogame systems and computers from 1977-99 they written about. You can the bookazine from ImagineShop.co.uk. Here’s the list:

1977-79

• Atari 2600

1980-89

• Intellivision
• Game & Watch
• Sinclair ZX81
• BBC Micro
• ZX Spectrum
• Dragon 32
• Commodore 64
• Vetrex
• MSX
• Famicom
• Amstrad CPC 464
• Commodore Amiga
• Atari ST
• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Sega Master System
• PC Engine
• Sega Mega Drive
• Konix Multi System
• Nintendo GameBoy
• Atari Lynx

1990-99

• Sega Game Gear
• Super NES
• Philips CD-i
• Sega Mega-CD
• 3DO
• Atari Jaguar
• Sega Saturn
• NEC PC-FX
• Nintendo 64
• Nintendo Virtual Boy
• Game Boy Color
• Sega Dreamcast
• Neo Geo Pocket
• Bandai Wonder Swan

I allways look forward to a new edition of Retro Gamer. So this is some of the thing you can read in issue 71:

• Back to the Eighties – November 1987
• Back to the Nineties – June 1992
• Coin-up Capers: After Burner
• DOS Gaming: A Bluffer’s Guide
• The SID Crowd
• The Making of Joe Jam and Earl
• Retroinspection: Playstation
• From the Archives – RamJam Corporation
• The Classic Game – Space Channel 5
• In the Chair with… Peter Molyneux

You can get Retro Gamer from Imagineshop.co.uk.

So Retro Gamer issue 70 is out, and here is some of the suff you can read:

• Back to the Eighties – October 1987
• Back to the Nineties – May 1992
• Tales From Monkey Island
• The Making of… Jet Force Gemini
• The Classic Game – Gribbly’s Day Out
• Why You Must Play… Dragon Ninja
• The Top 25 Dreamcast Games
• The Making of… Switchblade
• Retroinspection: Neo Geo Aes
• The Making of… The Empire Strikes Back

Retro Gamer can be ordered from ImageShop.co.uk.

In issue 69 of Retro Gamer, you can read about this (among other things):

• Back to the Eighties – August 1987
• Back to the Nineties – April 1992
• The Complete History of… Final Fantasy
• The Making of… Syndicate
• Why You Must Play… Cabal
• Retroinspection: Sega Nomad
• The Classic Game – Kung Fu Master
• From the Archives – First Star Software
• Coin-op Capers: Space Harrier
• The Making of… Die Hard Triology
• In the Chair with… Geoff Chammond

Retro Gamer can be ordered from ImagineShop.co.uk.