It wasn't until an eccentric but dedicated historian writing a paper for a renowned academic journal (
Retro Gamer issue 63) pieced together the complete saga of Willy's heroic exploits from fragments of scattered evidence - in the form of obscure retellings of the «Manic Miner» folk fable in ancient languages readable only via long - obsolete machines - that the whole truth was finally revealed.»
Not exact matches
It's not a major
issue, but considering the variety of bonus stages housed in the DKC
games back on the SNES, you kind of wish
Retro Studios could have touched up on the repetition of the bonus stages found in Returns with their second outing.
It's odd that
Retro — of all studios — has such an
issue with loading times, especially considering how they smartly used the blast doors to make the entire
game seem like a seamless, load - free world in the Metroid Prime series.
It's not like translation was an
issue either because
Retro is from Texas and
games release with delays regularly for different regions.
Despite its steep learning curve, slight pacing
issues and a nagging feeling that it would have been better suited on the 3DS, PONCHO is a rewarding puzzle platforming experience that's well worth a spot in any
retro gamer's digital library.
Mark is one of nine original members of the Goldeneye development team interviewed in the new
issue of
Retro Gamer magazine.
If
Retro can't handle making a
game for the Wii U because a small part of them is doing a cheap and easy handheld port, then there's some serious
issues going on there that this
game not existing wouldn't solve.
'' [Rewind] is so obvious and so helpful that I wish it was standard
issue on all consoles, not just little
retro consoles... you can suspend the
game at any point and it will be saved there, ready for you to pick it right up again.
The
retro - inspired art - style means the
game looks great, and appears well polished — despite all the action underway at times, I didn't notice any performance
issues, although there were a couple of times where I was warped back to the start of the level following contact with a moving object.
In fact, this is now my primary reason for wanting the Apple device now: cheaper
issues of
Retro Gamer.
I'm not sure if any of you have a magazine seller nearby that sells the UK magazine «
Retro Gamer,» but in their October - December
issue, they had a big article (plus DVD footage) about the Konix system, which was a
game system that used a universal controller.
Fans of the publication can download a
Retro Gamer Magazine app for $ 1.99, read the latest
issue, and buy back
issues for $ 4.99.
The reason's been threefold: One, I went skiing for a month and fell out of the habit; two, I keep on having trouble with my subscriptions as of late (my latest
issue of
Retro Gamer arrived only as a ripped plastic bag and I have yet to find success contacting any human being about a replacement); and three, ongoing news in the mag business keep on distracting me.
When digging up an old
issue of
Retro Gamer Magazine, an interview with programmer Doug Palmer confirms this suspicion to be true:
What finally made me accept the
game's age was a recent
issue of the UK magazine
Retro Gamer, which placed the
game at # 1 in its list of the top 25 racing
games.
Retro gaming is all the rage in this era of digital distribution, but while famous
games such as Super Mario Bros., Mega Man 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog have popped up in several places in different forms once again, there are some video
games that are doomed to remain in the vault for complicated copyright or licensing
issues.
What with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe being universally loved by critics, you may be interested in this month's
issue of
Retro Gamer, which published a lengthy article on the SNES original, featuring an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, plus codirectors Hideki Konno and Tadashi Sugiyama.
It might be quite frustrating in the beginning, and its few gameplay
issues are quite annoying, but its carefree
retro nature and fun joruney, accompanied by such inviting and charming visuals, are more than enough for you to consider giving this
game a try.
This is an
issue retro gamers often run into with classic gaming hardware.