zolyx.co.uk » GBA http://www.zolyx.co.uk An indie gamer's hobby-coder weblog Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:29:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Can it be? RGCD #5! http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/can-it-be-rgcd-5/ http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/can-it-be-rgcd-5/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:02:50 +0000 Chris http://www.zolyx.co.uk/?p=562 RGCD, the best retro discmag there is!

Breaking news! IT’S BACK!
:-D RGCD #5 is now available! :-D

And with it comes a spifftastic and star-studded selection of reviews, articles and extras covering a year’s worth of retro gaming. You thought it was dead, didn’t you? I’ll admit that I was thinking the same at one stage. Fortunately it is not so! James Monkman and his band of merry men have come up with the goods and, after some turbulent times, the mag should hopefully be back on a regular update schedule again.

Thrustburst is the featured game (though if I had my way it would’ve undoubtably been Qwak instead), with reviews of Rana Remake, Noitu Love 2, 3D Starstrike, Self Destruct and Rom Check Fail amongst the many PC titles you can read up about.

In the authentic “modern retro” corner there’s Sirius, Loops of Zen, Sub Hunter, Animal Party, Wizard of Wor (for the Speccy!), Plutos and the trip-off-the-tongue Crocodingus in Cube Island to name but a mere few.

This just scratches the surface! Honestly, there’s more stuff in it than I could cover in a week of posting – 45 articles and over 47,000 words, to be exact – so get your browser over to the RGCD homepage to download your copy today for a right proper blast from the past.

Oh, and if you look carefully, you’ll see some of this mysterious “writing work” that I was on about the other week, since yours truly is now a RGCD contributer. It was indeed a very cool thing to be given the chance to write for one of my favourite retro mags. Why James wanted to involve a nutter like me we’ll never know… I suspect it may be best not to wonder too much on that :P

Anyhow – happy reading, ’til next issue!

]]> http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/can-it-be-rgcd-5/feed/ 4 The world’s gone Qwakkers http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/the-worlds-gone-qwakkers/ http://www.zolyx.co.uk/blog/the-worlds-gone-qwakkers/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:06:41 +0000 Chris http://www.zolyx.co.uk/?p=381 There aren’t very many games out there that can boast a twenty year history so I want to give a hearty clap on the back to Qwak by Jamie Woodhouse, a quintessentially retro platform game that has recently seen a long-awaited PC release. It’s so brilliant I really am going to give it a serious plug – please, visit the homepage and give this game a try! You won’t regret it, I promise ;)

I’ve got some very fond memories of playing Qwak from a coverdisk on an Amiga magazine many moons ago, and this new version’s demo has gotten me addicted once more. In a similar spirit to Bubble Bobble, two players can team up – or maybe even compete – in collecting a whole spectrum of fruity goodies and bopping enemies on the noggin to progress through the levels.

The gameplay is still as fast, simple and horribly morish as ever. But keep in mind… bright green ducks are for life, not just for Christmas… :D

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