Author: Graeme Mason

I’m sitting opposite Saboteur’s coder, Clive Townsend, at a retro gaming show in the Midlands. Two pints separate us: beer for me, cider for him – ever the West Country boy – and Townsend is affable, smiling and jovial. “20 years ago, I could have reached across this table and rendered you unconscious in two…

I’m stuck on Starfield. There are a million mission icons dotted around the screen, and I keep getting my ass handed to me in space by a bunch of pirates. Fortunately, it’s 2023. I grab my smartphone, and within a few seconds, I’m looking at a page from Eurogamer’s excellent guide to the Bethesda…

[ad_1] Earlier this week we sadly lost Roger Kean, co-founder of the legendary Crash and Zzap!64 magazines amongst many others. If you’d like to learn more about the legacy of Crash, Graeme told its story in brilliant detail for us back in 2017. As with the passing of his friend, colleague and partner Oliver…

[ad_1] While the Nintendo 64 has its legion of fans today, there’s no doubt that the all-conquering PlayStation decimated it in terms of sales, with most accounts putting the final figure at a ratio of three to one in favour of the Sony console. Much of this was down to the perception of the…

[ad_1] Over the last ten years, I’ve interviewed many of my childhood heroes – those talented coders I used to read about in the pages of Crash or Your Sinclair. But today is different, because back in 1982, not only did Kevin Toms create a smash hit game, he invented a whole new genre.…

[ad_1] Who remembers the winter of 1985? In the UK, it was one of the coldest for many years, although east-west tension was beginning to thaw as US president Ronald Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev in November. I was 12 years old and unworried by historic political meetings or war in the middle east.…