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Still a 90’s kid at heart? Wish it was still 1985? Rather play Frogger than Assassin’s Creed? GameSpew’s Retro section is for you!

Here we celebrate everything yesteryear: the best games of days gone by, re-releases of the classics, and pretty much anything to do with the golden age of video games.

Rare Replay Review

As someone that has admittedly not played many Rare games, the announcement of Rare Replay was a nice surprise for me. Promising a collection...

Games That Changed Our Lives #4: Sim City

Can you think of anything more boring than Urban Planning? A friend of mine took a degree in it at university and several times...

Games That Changed Our Lives #3: Tomb Raider

Imagine a world without Lara Croft. The ridge-climbing, relic-seeking, ass-kicking English aristocrat with the curves of a genetically enhanced Page 3 model first somersaulted...
16 bit racers

Retro Gaming: Three Classic 16-Bit Racers

The Mega Drive and SNES gave those of us old enough to remember them many gaming delights. The consoles are best known for the...

Games That Changed Our Lives #2: The Metal Gear Series

For better or worse we live in a world of franchises. McDonalds and Subways. Dominos and Pizza Hut. Tesco and more Tescos. A franchise...

Back to Black – Criterion’s signature shooter

For those of you who weren’t clutching controllers in the early 2000’s, Black may have slipped you by without much notice. But for those...

In Praise of the Sega Saturn

The title of this article almost qualifies as an oxymoron. You know, like those advertisements on TV where banks attempt to show how caring...

Games That Changed Our Lives #1: Goldeneye 007

Nostalgia. It’s a funny thing. While your run-of-the-mill human being thinks back to summer afternoons spent in the park or on the beach, days...

The Most Inspirational Game You’ve Never Heard Of: System Shock

A terrifying first-person action romp through the mutant and cyborg filled corridors of TriOptimum’s Citadel Station; the power seat of a spiteful and ego-maniacal computer A.I gone rogue - S.H.O.D.A.N.

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