When History Becomes a Game: Wars, Civilisations and Myths in the Player’s Hands
What happens when the past becomes playable? From Civilization and North & South to Assassin’s Creed, Red Dead Redemption 2 and God of War.
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All Retro-Gamers.it articles about history: reviews, features, guides, news and stories from the world of retro gaming.
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Star Wars: Rebel Assault, When CD-ROM Spectacle Became the Game
Rebel Assault helped sell the multimedia PC by turning CD-ROM storage, sound, digitised footage and pre-rendered spectacle into the experience itself.
Tony Warriner: from Lure of the Temptress to Broken Sword, inside Revolution Software
Dagli esperimenti di Lure of the Temptress alla costruzione di Broken Sword: Tony Warriner racconta la storia tecnica e umana di Revolution Software.
Amiga vs the Rest of the World: CD32 against the New Generation, the Beginning of the End
In 1993, Commodore turned the Amiga 1200 into a console. CD32 had CD-ROM, AGA and Akiko, but it was born old in the face of the new generation.
Amiga vs the Rest of the World: Amiga 500 versus Amiga 1200, when being the best was no longer enough
Faster, more colourful and more expandable, the Amiga 1200 surpassed the 500 in almost every respect. But in 1992, a better Amiga was no longer enough.
Dynabyte, Nippon Safes and the Italian Adventure Game Years: An Interview with Massimo Magnasciutti
A direct, ironic and sometimes bitter conversation with Massimo Magnasciutti about Dynabyte, Nippon Safes Inc., Deluxe Paint, Donna Fatale and the difficult but unforgettable years of Italian adventure games.
Amiga vs the Rest of the World: Atari ST, the closest rival
The Atari ST was the Amiga’s closest rival: same Motorola 68000, same European market, but two very different hardware philosophies.
Amiga arcade ports: when they hurt, and when they worked miracles
Arcade conversions on Amiga were often painful, but not always. From Capcom disasters to successful ports, all the way to the unreleased Snow Bros.
Amiga vs the Rest of the World: why the Sharp X68000 was not the Japanese Amiga
The third chapter of Amiga vs the Rest of the World looks at the myth of the Sharp X68000 as “the Japanese Amiga”: Capcom arcade ports, U.S. Gold, Workbench, Human68k, demo scene and two very different computer cultures.
Amiga vs the Rest of the World: the day PC DOS stopped chasing
The second chapter of “Amiga vs the Rest of the World” tells the moment when PC DOS stopped chasing: VGA, Sound Blaster, hard drives, 386, 486, LucasArts, arcade conversions and Doom changed the balance.
The end of Commodore: how a giant lost the future it had already invented
Commodore’s decline was not a sudden collapse, but a slow loss of direction, made of missed opportunities and choices that were never truly decisive — while the Amiga continued to be loved.
Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 16 and 128: the lesser-known siblings that made history
The less celebrated Commodore machines that helped build the foundations of home computing.
The Amiga AAA chipset and the Hombre project
Two unreleased architectures that still represent the Amiga future Commodore never managed to deliver.
Amiga: the computer that was already in the future — and that the world did not understand at first
Amiga arrived with graphics, audio and multitasking that were far beyond what most people expected at the time: a machine projected into the future, but placed in the hands of a company that never fully understood what it had.
Commodore 64: the computer that changed the way we played and learned
With the Commodore 64, the computer truly entered the home: a games machine, a tool for discovery and a symbol of an entire generation.
Commodore: from typewriters to the home computer revolution
Before the Commodore 64 became a legend, Commodore had already changed its own destiny: from typewriters and calculators to the first personal computers.
The Addams Family: the pinball machine in the haze of Bar Acquario
A school memory of buses, smoke, records, credits and endless challenges around a pinball machine that seemed to call the whole bar to attention.
The lost Sega Channel ROMs: when the Genesis imagined the digital future
The recovery of the Sega Channel ROMs brings back one of the most fascinating chapters in video game preservation: SEGA imagined digital distribution long before the world was ready.
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