Retro Gamer Issue 257

It’s Retro Gamer’s 20th anniversary, so we’re celebrating in fine style. We’ve a huge 32-page feature revealing the 100 greatest retro games of all time and we’re also including a 32-page book about the creation of the magazine. There’s also an excellent double-sided poster featuring Atari artwork and every previous Retro Gamer cover for physical issues of the magazine. There’s lots more included, so read on. The 100 Greatest Retro Games RG staff, developers and readers vote for the industry’s most revolutionary games, but what will end up in the top spot? The Making Of Peter Molyneux talks about the creation of Fable, which, like Retro Gamer, celebrates its 20th anniversary. We also go behind the scenes of Daxter, Ready At Dawn’s excellent PSP platformer A Tribute To Llamasoft Jeff Minter plays through his back catalogue of hits, from Sheep In Space to Tempest 2000 Ultimate Guide Minh Le is on hand to revisit the iconic first-person shooter Counter-Strike and we also look back at the delightful Spellbound, Magic Knight’s second 8-bit adventure In The Chair With Richard Jacques The legendary musician looks back at his time at Sega, his love for Jet Set Radio and creating the divisive soundtrack for Sonic R There’s much more, including… Super Sprint, Tekken 8, Virtua Racing, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, GameCube, Retro Gamer’s missing 19th issue, Grind Stormer, Kuru Kuru Kururin, Homebrew, TR Fightstick