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Retro Special

Retro Comments

Previews & Reviews

Back to the Future?

This month we’ve looked back at some of our favourite games from what some
might call, the good old days of gaming. There’s no doubt there was a certain
energy about the 80s and 90s and even early 2000’s when it comes to gaming.
Systems like the NES, SNES, Megadrive and computers like the Atari ST and
Amiga 500 had some incredible titles that seemed to cram brilliant game play
and, for the time, amazing graphics, onto small floppy disks or cartridges. Icons
such as Mario and Sonic we’re born in those days. Games featured the amazing
ability to suspend disbelief and allow you to enjoy games in ways we’d never
previously experienced. Do they still today?

So what’s next? We’ve got powerful new systems that promise much. We’ve got
incredible technology like the Sony PS4 Virtual Reality headset and the Oculus
Rift coming out hopefully this year. The Oculus System was just purchased by
Facebook, and we expect the social media giant’s financial backing to result in
amazing gaming experiences. But will they be simply eye candy or might they
bring about a new era of immersive gaming? Will they take us back to the day
when fancy graphics alone were not enough. A time when developers had to
cram a whole game into a system like the Amiga that only had 500k or RAM.
Think about that, 500k! And we got swept away with the story, graphics and
audio. As gamers we hope that these new hardware devices enhance our gaming
experiences, giving us amazing new worlds and experiences to enjoy. We hope
they’ll take us back to when gaming was pure and exhilarating and had the ability
to amaze us.
We at Live hope you enjoy this look back at gaming. Please share the magazine
with your friends via social media or forwarding the link to the magazine. You can
download it and drag it onto your tablet or read it online or on your phone. You
can even subscribe by clicking the free subscription link on the back.
See you next month.
Rob and the team.

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Cosplay interviews

THE LIVE TEAM
Publisher: Rob Jenkins
(Gametraders Operations Centre)
Art Director: Giselle Capozza
(Gametraders Operations Centre)
Game Review & Preview Editors:
Nick Getley & Kylie Tuttle
(Sticky Trigger)
Retro Writer: Paul Monopoli
Retro Writer: David Kudrev
UK Writer: Rob Jenkins
US Writer: Serwa Aboagye
Sticky Trigger Writers:
Kylie Tuttle
Nick Getley
Alex Holmes
Sam Babu
Nick Pearce
Aaron Milligan
Ben Rachow
Elliott Buddo
Bridget Sweeney
Sean Fox
Miranda Nelson
Dom Mallett