Category: Retro

  • Awesome Games of Yesteryear: Top 11 Atari ST Games

    Awesome Games of Yesteryear: Top 11 Atari ST Games

    I’ll never forget the day my parents bought me and my brothers an Atari ST. I was 11 years old. They sat us down together and told us they were getting a divorce. They patiently answered our anguished questions and then pulled out a big box as though it was some kind of consolation prize. […]

  • Awesome Games of Yesteryear: Top 10 ZX Spectrum Games

    Awesome Games of Yesteryear: Top 10 ZX Spectrum Games

    Thinking about the first game I ever played conjured up loads of memories of old titles that were awesomely addictive at the time. I’ve owned loads of different computers and consoles over the years and played hundreds, maybe thousands, of games. In Games of Yesteryear we’ll take a look at the games that inked themselves indelibly […]

  • What Was the First Game You Ever Played?

    What Was the First Game You Ever Played?

    Can you remember? I’m not 100% sure and I’m going to sound like Methuselah here but I think it was probably Pong. My Grandad had an old Atari console with Pong on it, the simplest game to encapsulate that multiplayer thrill of ecstatic gloating in victory or potentially violent anger in defeat. That simple gameplay […]