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#197 popped when polling my mailbox on Friday (16th), which should be 28 days after my previous (utterly logical). As of lately my sub copy has been around 9 days ahead my newsagent.
(BTW, EDGE is not stocked locally.)

Fair is fair - I've been in two minds about many issues lately, but this one pushed my retro button all the way down. Cheers!

Found #196 today while visiting my mailbox.

Stellar game. And I think DK Jr is even better. A mainstay of travelling tivolis and burger joints all over. Played it a fair bit, and even rented a Colecovision with it. What I find fascinating it the number of home versions, those trying to be exact, official and (more or less) exact, and those tr...

Just pulled mine out of the bag and stored in the "IN" pile, but for once there was a nice front I'll say. Will have to check out the retail for comparison ofc.

There was #195 some time in the past 3 weeks (i.e. Tuesday or earlier) - date unknown as I had a friend who picked up mail while I was away. (There is also a copy of EDGE, but I haven't checked the number.)

Degrading/non-reusable stuff is, IMO, not a good idea. As is any format that makes collecting harder.

I've played it a few times - it seemed a permanent fixture of a traveling tivoli in the 80s. And it never really gripped me as I had seen newer games before it. Monumental point in gaming history, censored game in itself. (Much like I also don't like Pac-Man.) Took until Galaga before shooters got g...

This is the first time ever I'd say Quake _looks_ agreeable. It was everything wrong with PC gaming. Raytracing does all kinds of good things to it.

"It's been a while since you received your last copy of Retro Gamer and we want you back! " Have you completely lost your marbles RG? Did the fix your subs dept do for me confuse yourself? This is not cool. Don't send me bogus mail - my sub is running just fine thank you. EDIT: Even better! The "Fro...

[Kingsoft] Pinball Wizard picture much?

Show of face from #194 yesterday. That would be 22 days after the previous.

The C= 64 has issues with being able to update colour info fast enough (which the C= 128 did a fix for). Never heard about this and can't really say I understand what it is about. Do you mean something like the colourclash on the Spectrum? It is exactly like the 16/48K ZX in that it has a single fi...

What on earth is an Alice 32/90?

The CPC needs to use a lot of its memory for the display, and so sprites will also be bigger. Hence it also needs to use a lot of processing power to update the display. OTOH it has no placement restrictions to work around. Possibly it should also find use for having only 2 pixels per byte. The C= 6...