Retro Gamer issue 2 out now (UK)

[tom]

Due to popular demand, issue 2 of the UK Retro Gamer magazine came out today (a month early).

I haven't read through it yet, but it seems to be improving. It features a Commodore history, Top 50 Game characters (bit dodgy, many less important characters included. I mean, they feature Horace, but not Frogger in the Top Ten Animal characters), Dizzy stuff, Retro remakes, Crash magazine history plus more.

For me, still a bit to much UK biased (I wish the Brits would finally forget that horrible Spectrum calculator, I mean, Maggie said it'll be a Japanese technology beater, that says it all), but as soon as more USA stuff gets featured, it hopefully will improve again.

Oh yes, a CD is covermounted again, with lots of PD games of old.

[Parodius]

The appropriate link:
http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/retro/

[Arcturius]

Intro by Martyn Carroll
Contents
Retro News Space Invaders merchandise, museum of computing, Sega on N-Gage, NES SP, POP Sequel, & New Pac-Man & Knight Rider games
Retro Forum Comments and suggestions from readers
Commodore Uncovered In depth feature about the C64 by Shaun Bebbington
Retro Remakes Martyn Carroll talks to Retrospec & Ovine by Design about remakes of classic games
Top 50 Retro Game Characters 5 charts of ten characters in various classes (working class, forces of good, thrill seekers, animal crackers, one-hit wonders)
Inside Crash Towers Feature about "Crash" & "ZZap! 64" magazines for the C64 (Matthew Uffindell)
Play Another Day The game history of James Bond
Fantastic Dizzy Feature about The Oliver Twins and their Dizzy games
Pieces of 8-Bit Ricard Burton covers the Retro collecting & trading side of games and units (Price guides for "Ultimate Play The Game" and "Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy") Also covers Magazines/Top Ten Collectables & 8-Bit Hardware
Retro Game Creator Jason Darby's beginners guide to makinf a 2D shooter with Multimedia Fusion
Emulation Nation A look at the emulators avalible for Dreamcast, PS2, XBox GBA & GP32
Advertising Gallery 1984 - Adverts for Llamasoft, The Birds and the Bees, Jet Set Willy, Crash Micro, ZX Interface 2, Crystal Computing, Hewson 3D Space Wars, Ultimate's Knight Lore, Activision's Pitfall II & Atari's BattleZone & Moon Patrol
Retro Gamesr Coverdisc contents of the cover CD
Retro Mart Buying, Selling & Wanted ad's
End Game Monkey Island's End Game Sequence

[Parodius]

Sounds decidedly better than issue #1.

Can't wait for my issue to arrive in the mail.

[gleavepaul]

I got it few days go its ok never had issue one. I was taken in by the cd box looking like a master system. Its ok not that goo thro.

[Griking]

I just found that they carry this magazine in my local Border's Book store. I picked up issue six and I have to say, it's pretty impressive. As an old time computer gamer I'm very happy to see that they offer equal time to classic computer gaming rather then only concentrating on console gaming. My only gripe, )and it's unfair for me to even call it that) is that it's a U.K. magaine. This means that the computer gaming is focused on U.K. computers at the time and my beloved Apple II doesn't seem to be mentioned. Also, all the advertisers are overseas for me.

So how is this magazine faring financially? I feel the need to ask since ManciGames only lasted two issues. I'd love to see a magazine like this released locally.

[Mayhem]

The Apple II made no roads here, so don't expect an article on it. But you never know, the magazine is going more global and it is quite possible there could be foreign writers in the future. Computers were the thing here in the 80s, consoles didn't take off again really until the Megadrive and SNES era. Even the 2600 wasn't THAT big here in comparison. I mean it was big, but it wasn't Spectrum/C64 big if you get my meaning.

[Cauterize]

I get this Mag every month/when its out, its great! well worth it!
the cover disc is filled with some great stuff too!

[anagrama]

I've flicked through every issue so far, but have yet to see anything that actually compells me to buy it. :o