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Who/What are we?
OW:Videogames is/was Retro Remakes and is ran by Rob. We post about videogames that we like and think you might like too. Our only criteria is that we like at least one thing about it.
Want to drop us a line about something? mail Rob. He's slow but he gets there in the end.
owVideogames is dedicated to the memory of Steve Phelps aka The Toker and is produced with the utmost of thanks to [JJ].
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Got a game you think we might like and want to post about? Want to know how to get it posted here?
1. Have something for us to show and post about.
Videos, screenshots, playable builds. Give us a reason to want to post about it and give us something to post. We're mainly interested in awesome looking hobbyist stuff, retro remakes and curiosities but hey, try us. You never know. We like games.
2. Get in touch!
You can tweet me, mail me, rail me. No, don't rail me.
3. Be nice! We like nice!
Being nice is *so* much better than just firing off a generic press release and more likely to entice us to have a gander at your stuff.
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Came for the remakes, only want the remakes?
That's ok, we've preserved all the Retro Remakes posts for all time and the drop list of remakes will continue to function and be added to should any more pass through our doors.
Retro Remakes posts 2010-2012.
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Category Archives: Books and magazines
Programming Art: Sinclair Programs
This time round it’s the May/June 1982 issue of Sinclair Programs. Spaceships, skulls and Smaug.
Programming Art: ZX Computing
When you’ve got an entire magazine to fill and the screen capabilities of a ZX81 to illustrate, there’s only one thing to do. Fill the page up with doodles.
Sometimes they turned out awesome, sometimes they turned out clearly copied and sometimes they turned out entirely in the realms of WHAT? But I love them all entirely. And for that reason and that reason alone, presenting some highlights from ZX Computing, Issue 1.
Thanks as ever to World Of Spectrum
Peripheral Interest: The Petron Trichord
An advert from Issue 1 of Your Spectrum for the Petron Trichord, a device for… wait, what’s it for again?
I can only assume it just makes twanging sounds.
Learning To Speak: Street Talk
For some reason I can’t really fathom, early issues of Computer & Video Games magazine dedicated column space to teaching people the lingo surrounding arcade machines.
For a laugh, I’ve included some of them here so that we can all brush up on our language skills and truly speak ARCADE[1].
Fangs in the backside? Really? That was a thing?
With thanks to World Of Spectrum for being a magnificent and essential archive as always.
250 Indie Games You Must Play
Good friend of RR and all round sexy northerner (that’s £2.50, please) Mike Rose has gone and done a book thing. It’s called 250 Indie Games You Must Play and knowing Mike, I’m sure it’ll be filled to the brim with absolutely wonderful and amazing games. Games like, I dunno, SYNSO or something. I’ve heard that’s pretty smart.
Shush at the back.
Anyway, reason for posting now is that it’s up on Amazon and the obligatory Amazon discount-me-up has just thrown itself up onto the internet so you can grab a copy for a lovely £4.50 off the normal price. Which is nice.
Also, credit for getting QWOP’s legs upside down in the corner. What?