Issue 28 of Retro Gamer

[Conundrum Rattrap]

I've just found out that my father subscribes to this publication, and keeps all his back issues on a bookshelf in his office. I will have to ask him to pass his read issues onto me...

[Mr Do 71]

I've just found out that my father subscribes to this publication, and keeps all his back issues on a bookshelf in his office. I will have to ask him to pass his read issues onto me...

Hardcore Dad!

[merman]

Hardcore Dad!

I haven't seen that ad in Retro Gamer or gamesTM yet

Good issue - but I'd love to have seen more about the CREATION of Starfox (the characters, the level design).

[Madjock]

Another one who missed 28 here to due 27 being my last before the letter for 'resubscrbing', just asked them to ensure that this time it doesn't stop after 6 issues.

Shall need to scower the shops now, damn.

[Conundrum Rattrap]

Couldn't the articles be written so that they are more academic in discursive tone, like this one?

http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/vanlooy/

[Dandy_Sephy]

Steady on...

[Conundrum Rattrap]

I'm totally serious. Only one feature a month be in that academic style. It'd be great. Expand the mind.

[Sketch]

I dislike pseudo-intellectual babble at the best of times, but that is poorly written. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.

The worst thing was this:

"The game is divided into rooms where the third and the fourth wall have been taken out. The player is looking down on the scene from a corner. She assumes a neutral third-person stance and a low-flying bird's or an insect's point of view."

I don't understand why the author feels the need to defy convention (in that most people refer to everything as "he" if they're talking about a singular person, or in some cases defy correct grammer by saying "they"), and has to talk about the player being a "she", when, let's be honest here, most people who owned 8-bit micros were male. What is the point?

I had to stop before reaching figure 3, because to be honest, I think I'd rather be working than read through that (I was reading purely for research you understand, not an attempt to avoid work - honest). Not an enjoyable read.

IMHO, of course.

[Dr Derek Doctors]

LOL! You managed to pick my most hated article on the internet, even though it forkin' quotes me!

[Duddyroar]

Good issue - but I'd love to have seen more about the CREATION of Starfox (the characters, the level design).

I was only able to talk to Jez San and as he states Argonaut didn't have any input in the creation of the actual characters or levels - that was all done by Nintendo, with Argonaut's technical assistance. I would have loved to involve Nintendo but I doubt they would have accepted the offer, and San's insightful (not to mention anti-Nintendo) comments would have almost certainly been cut out as a result.

Glad you liked the feature though mate.

[213]

Couldn't the articles be written so that they are more academic in discursive tone, like this one?

http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/vanlooy/

Heh, if I wanna read pretentious bollocks I'll stick to poole or just the grauniad as a whole.

It's a game it doesn't stand up to intellectual disection or discussion no matter how much people want it to.

[Sketch]

It's a game it doesn't stand up to intellectual disection or discussion no matter how much people want it to.

o/\o

I remember back in the day when people actually bought games just to play them and have fun. Such innocent times.

[Norante]

Thanks for the efforts of Mr. Do, I have received my issue...

SUPERB magazine!