Well, what a tweet to come back with - a potentially libellous one! I'm not a lawyer, but as a journalist I am given training on relevant legal...
I welcome all of these announcements and I'm hopeful that at least some of them will live up to our expectations. Disclaimer out of the way, I've...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Sega wasn't making good sports games pre-Dreamcast. I just feel that it wasn't quite as important for the...
Yeah, I've got to disagree on sports games too. Whether you're talking about the more serious releases (Wimbledon, Sega Worldwide Soccer, the 2K...
The print advert is almost as bad, save for presence of a single screenshot. [img]
As it goes, the PS2 was £299.99 in the UK at launch. Anyway, below is a press release from 13th October 2000, announcing a UK Dreamcast/DVD player...
Of course, you couldn't actually sign a contract to have a look at Dreamarena, because Sega had already done that for you by signing exclusive...
I wouldn't read anything into that. I don't actually know if Sega has any official imagery of the Mega Drive available, but even if it does, press...
It was an absolutely fantastic night, great performances all round and lovely to see so many familiar faces there. I took some photos and...
This is issue 249 of Retro Gamer, and has a ten page feature in which Takashi Iizuka is asked about the making of Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. I...
It's not about needing a Miyamoto figure, it was just about needing a PR figurehead for Sonic specifically. Even if Sega for some reason felt it...
The feature is truly lovely, but as the features editor of Retro Gamer I'm going to have to play spoiler. While we do often time our covers to tie...
Based on conversations I've had with retro hardware manufacturers for work, this sounds about right. Basically, components are in shorter supply...
Toshihiro Nagoshi's account of the project from Edge issue 323 seems to support this idea: The final build date of the game was 22 November...
Two of my formative gaming experiences were with Alex Kidd in Miracle World and Sonic 1, so it's fair to say that Rieko Kodama worked on games...
I've written about Harlow's Sega Park in issue 238 of Retro Gamer. It's mostly personal memories, but I did get some very kind assistance from...
Sure thing. Digital issues can be purchased through Pocketmags, Amazon Kindle, Zinio, the Retro Gamer iOS app and potentially other places too....
Just to note, it doesn't have any comments from Taxman as he was busy moving house. Stealth provides plenty of insight though, and there are also...
Born 86, Sonic fan from day dot, UK-based. I've always thought of Sonic as primarily being a video game character, because when I first became...
For what it's worth, Iizuka has done two recent interviews in which he expressed interest in both developing further 2D games and continuing to...
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