Tag Archives: Retro Gamer

The best Sega Saturn games show that there’s more to this system than meets the eye. While it’s certainly true that Sega’s fifth-generation console struggled against the might of the PlayStation and Nintendo 64, there is a fantastic collection of games to be played if you knew where to find …

The strange story behind Dune and Dune 2 involves genre change-ups and a last-minute un-cancellation. With Dune back in the public eye thanks to Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaption, you may be tempted to revisit its various video game adaptations – and to wonder why it had not one but …

The idea for Psychonauts originally started life in developer Tim Schafer’s previous project, Full Throttle, during his time at Lucasarts.  As detailed in Retro Gamer issue 228, Psychonauts developer and head of Double Fine Tim Schafer originally had the idea for the 3D platformer whilst working on his biker adventure …

Humanity had accomplished many things by the start of 1971, plenty of them rather impressive – we’d erected great buildings like the pyramids, created beautiful works of art and literature, and invented machines that could take us to the moon. Yet somehow, despite having invented a box that could display …