Retro Gamer Issue 37

[Strider]

Retro Inspection...
Martyn Carroll dons his boxing gloves and defends the honour of the good old Dragon 32

The making of...
After revealing the making of Pitfall, David Crane returns to discuss his superior sequal - Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

The Making of...
Jet Set Willy Online. How do you make one of the greatest platformers of all time even better? Take it online of course

Developer lookback...
In the second part of our exhaustive feature, David Crookes continues his travels in OZ and uncovers more of the story behind Melbourne House

The Making of...
Capcom's Final Fight is widely regarded as one of the most influential scrolling beat em ups of all time. Retro gamer throws on a white t-shirt and finds out why

Top 25 platformers...
Find out what famous developers thought about your favourite platformers of yesteryear

The definitive...
Wonderboy. It's one of the most tangled franchises of all time, but Stuart Capbell is more then up for the challenge.

The history of...
Virtua Fighter. Yes, it's scary 3D but it's also happens to be one of the greatest beat-em-up franchises ever created

The making of...
Thanatos. How do you fire a fire breathing dragon into a tiny ZX spectrum? Mike Richardson has the answers.

[Duddyroar]

That is a lovely cover. I can't stop staring at it.

[AllYourBase]

I can't stop staring at the high street honeys on the back pages

[merf]

lovely looking cover.

on a side issue anybody else got the binders for Retro Gamer yet, got mine the other day and very lovely they are to.

[drmick]

Best Cover ever. Edge 113, Summer 2002

[Strider]

Best Cover ever. Edge 113, Summer 2002

Nah, they've just cut out a load of sprites and thrown them on the page. We've created a real work of art

[dvdmike]

WHoo VF history, there is always somthing that keeps me buying Retro Gamer

[Leon Retro]

Another easy cover, but you have to " Love it! "

Final Fight is in there too. I hope you say it's the best scrolling fighter ever. Streets Of Rage 2 doesn't come close

[Duddyroar]

Final Fight is in there too. I hope you say it's the best scrolling fighter ever. Streets Of Rage 2 doesn't come close

Why would they print a big fat lie like that?

And the EDGE cover looks a lot worse now than it did back then. The RG cover is much better, more focused. The EDGE one looks like a mess.

[C']

Final Fight is in there too. I hope you say it's the best scrolling fighter ever. Streets Of Rage 2 doesn't come close

Word!

[Big Seany]

That Virtua Fighter piece by Sean Smith is ****ing amazing.

[chaoticjelly]

Two minor grip with all issues of the mag.

1) Retro Price Listings / Bargain Hunt - written by someone who appears to not have a clue, pretty much the same every issue and appears in every issue. Why not change to every 6 / 12 issues and make it a bit more in depth / revised?

Some prices shown there are highly conservative / fantastical, I think the opening words on the page should be replaced with something which describes more what to look for in a package which is worth more e.g. for vintage computers, check the serial number on the computer matches the serial numbers in the packaging and manufacturing cards, stuff like that, ?50 for a GX4000 is just wrong.. they may go for that sometimes but not very often!

Also this issues "retro auction" looked like it was done in 2 minutes, it says items of interest etc, but it just seems a number of Megadrive games which have gone higher or lower than "normally sells for" according to your "expert" have been selected off ebay at random, I think rare items, dev items and the like would be much more interesting than this "hee hee, it went for less than it was worth or hee hee he overpaid a lot!"

Wiz n Liz does not normally sell for ?10, Ranger X does not normally sell for ?15, sorry to be critical but I don't know who writes that carp

Also the adult pages in the back - I know this has been brought up before, apparently this is what your target readers want to see in adverts, and they call up these dodgy chat line numbers cause they want some middle aged woman talking dirty to them. Thats all fair and well.

I wanted to make an ad in retro gamer once, and the price was astounding, so no wonder there is more adult chat line ads than retro related stuff !

Other than that, I do like the mag a lot

[drmick]

Why would they print a big fat lie like that?

And the EDGE cover looks a lot worse now than it did back then. The RG cover is much better, more focused. The EDGE one looks like a mess.

Well actually, that scan is slightly distorted in terms of aspect, and it was wrap-around with even better characters on the back.

Also, SOR (2&3) beats Final Fight hands down, I'm surprised the SOR Remake didn't get the attention it deserved on this forum (in terms of discussion):

http://www.bombergames.net/sorr.htm

http://ntsc-uk.domino.org/showthread.php?t=68526&highlight=streets+rage+remake

[Leon Retro]

Also, SOR (2&3) beats Final Fight hands down

Haggar will crush you!

[Leon Retro]

Darran, you're having a laugh. Biohazard Battle is my favourite MegaDrive shooter, and a total masterpiece. Did you lose your soul, or sell it?