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This week in retro, minus the hype.
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You can finally fix the Atari 2600’s blurriest problem for the price of a large pizza
The Atari 2600 has spent 49 years talking to televisions over RF, which is a polite way of…
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A Blues Brothers sequel that vanished in 1994 is 80 per cent of the way back onto the Amiga
The Amiga was dying in 1994, and Titus quietly let its Blues Brothers sequel die with it. The…
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A first-person shooter just landed on the Commodore Plus/4, of all places
The Commodore Plus/4 spent most of 1984 being quietly ignored by everyone who wasn’t Hungarian. It shipped with…
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This arcade-perfect Pac-Man clone needs seven times more RAM than your VIC-20 actually has
A stock VIC-20 has 5K of RAM, and roughly 3.5K of that is left over once BASIC has…
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Ubisoft’s first game turns 40, and someone’s just squeezed it onto an Atari Lynx
Zombi was Ubisoft’s first game, a 1986 action-adventure built around George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead rather than…
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Iraq’s first Amiga game sat lost for thirty years. It’s finally free to play
Rabah Shihab, Murtadha Salman and Mahir AlSalman built Babylonian Twins in Baghdad in 1993, on a single Amiga…