Retro Gamer Issue 2

This issue cost £5.99 and was released in April 2004. It had a free coverdisk.

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Regulars
Hello - 1 page (3)

Contents - 2 pages (4-5)

Letters - 6 pages (10-15)

Retro News
Space Invasion - 1 page (6)
 * Space Invaders anniversary sparks merchandise madness
 * Space Invaders Anniversary on PS2 and Arcade.
 * Space Invaders - The Official Album from EMI
 * Clothing from Joystick Junkies

Page 7 Page 8
 * Island Treasures: Dropzone hidden in new Pool Paradise game.
 * Saturday is Retro Day!: Museum of Computing now open to the public
 * NES SP?: GBAs modelled on the NES on sale in Japan
 * N-Gaging the Past: Virtua Cop returns as Sega strike a deal with Nokia
 * Pac-Racer!: New Pac-man game races into view - Pac-Man Vs. bundled with R: Racing
 * 80s Throwback: New Knight Rider game around the corner
 * Fresh Prince: Prince of Persia 2 confirmed
 * High Kicks: The Dragon Twins reunited - Double Dragon Advance

Features
Commodore Uncovered - Shaun Bebbington - 10 pages (16-25)
 * Commodore expert Shaun Bebbington pores over every one of the company's 8-bit machines, from the early KIM-1 to the C128, including the rare models that never made it to market, and the hardware innovations that have prolonged the life of this classic range.

Retro Remakes - Martyn Carroll - 6 pages (26-31)
 * The bedroom programmers are well and truly back, and they're updating clissic games for the PC. Martyn Carroll talks to members of Retrospec and Ovine By Design, two of the most respected development teams in the remaking community.

The Top 50 Retro Game Characters - 12 pages (32-43) Inside Crash Towers - Matthew Uffindell - 6 pages (46-51)
 * Top Ten Working Class Heroes - 2 pages (34-35)
 * Top Ten Forces of Good - 2 pages (36-37)
 * Top Ten Thrill Seekers - 2 pages (38-39)
 * Top Ten Animal Crackers - 2 pages (40-41)
 * Top Ten One-Hit Wonders - 2 pages (42-43)
 * With titles like Crash and Zzap!64, Newsfield changed our view of video gaming magazines forever. Employee Matthew Uffindell was there from the very beginning to the bitter end, and reveals the inside story on this revered publisher.

Play Another Day - Aaron Birch - 6 pages (52-57)
 * He's got a view to a kill, rakes the moon, has a spy who loves him and scares the living daylights out of us, and that's just Aaron Birch on a weekday! Lucky he's on Her Majesty's Secret Service then...
 * James Bond 007, Goldfinger, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Live and Let Die, Licence to Kill, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, James Bond 007: The Duel, James Bond Jr, Goldeneye 007, Spy Hunter, James Pond: Underwater Agent, The Adventures of Bond... Basildon Bond, Operation Stealth

Fantastic Dizzy

Adverts
PC How To, PC Tools, PC Utilities, PC Extreme, PC Explorer Essentials Series, PC Utilities Plus - 2 pages (44-45)

Additional Credits
Art Editor
 * Mat Mabe

Additional Design
 * Roy Birch, Tym Leckey

Sub-Editors
 * Katie Hallam, Rachel White

Contributors
 * Aaron Birch, Shaun Bebbington, Richard Burton (I), David Crookes, Jason Darby, Paul Loughrey, Matthew Uffindell, Iain Warde