Gaming Lore & Retro Gaming In-Depth

The internet age is a world-wide playground filled with rainbow pop-tart cats, forum trolling and most of all: information. Going online means gathering information; while we learn from sites such as Wikipedia, we also gain knowledge from people. But what does this have to do with Retro Gaming?

With countless video game celebrations kicking off around us this year, there is still one franchise sitting outside of the birthday limelight. Of all the possible candidates, Metroid's very own Samus Aran must feel like the middle child in Nintendo’s family.

Twenty years ago today, the lightning fast blue hedgehog made his debut on the Sega Mega Drive. Since then our favourite Sega mascot, Sonic The Hedgehog, has become a prominent figure in the gaming industry, shaping many of our fond gaming memories to date.

I’m sitting here alone in my living room, the distant lull of my Xbox 360’s fans quietly humming, thinking about my life for the past 20 years.

How would YOU define "retro gaming"? It's an age-old, and very boring, argument. Well in this reporter's view, if it doesn't involve mechanical cogs then it may as well be Call Of Duty 6. Revel in ancient fun!

A few months back RetroCollect dived into the deep end of video game commercials from the 90's, with a nostalgic look on the short clips which got our adrenaline pumping. This time, we're stepping back in time a further 10 years to look at the 80's.

Deus Ex. If you were at all interested in PC gaming in the early 2000's it is a title that you would have heard quite a lot. Released that year by Eidos Interactive and developed by Ion Storm, Deus Ex received huge amounts of praise from the gaming press, including Game of the Year awards from nearly every corner and even Best PC Game of All Time f [ … ]

This past weekend (19-20th March, 2011) saw the happening of an amazingly fun weekend in deepest, darkest Exeter: a coming-together of around forty enthusiastic gamers, willing to see who was best at various classic arcade games. This happening had a name: HISCORE!

A gamer's first taste of a new title was often a movie on a cover disc and now, thanks to RetroCollect and the wonderous YouTube, you can now experience every single movie from the Sega Dreamcast's Official Demo Disc - Dream On.