Nick Thorpe

Interview Feature | The Making of Sonic Generations – Retro Gamer talk with Sonic Team creative director Takashi Iizuka about the game's original 20th anniversary release

Best List From Sonic Adventure to Soulcalibur, here are the best Sega Dreamcast games ever made

Best List From Metroid to Mega Man 2, these are the best NES games to play right now

Best List Here's the best PS2 games ever made, from GTA: San Andreas to Silent Hill 2

Best List Dust off your old handheld and relive the best PSP games ever

Best List Let's wind back the years to look at the 25 best PS1 games from Sony's ground-breaking games console

Features Interview | In conversation with the creators of Sonic 3 and its expansion Sonic & Knuckles

Features Holiday Long Read | Retro Gamer spoke to NES vets on 8-bit coding, sprites, and the future of the old-school console

Features Nintendo's Takashi Tezuka and Kensuke Tanabe reveal the hard work that went into this legendary SNES classic

Features Join us on a tour of the series as we explore what makes it so exceptional, before taking deep dives into each game

Features What is it about the Hero Of Hyrule that makes him such a compelling protagonist across many adventures?

Features Looking back on the history of Fatal Fury, SNK's fighting series that's set to return more than 20 years later

Best List Turns out you can judge a game by its cover

Features Retro Gamer looks back at 50 moments that had a major impact on the trajectory of games over the last five decades

Features Retro Gamer takes an in-depth look at the strengths, influence, and legacy of the N64 with veteran developers

Features The presenters tell us how the revived show has benefited from the online age of video games

Features Industry icons join Retro Gamer to look back at the N64 launch title that changed 3D gaming forever: "Mario 64 showed the way forward for the whole industry!"

Features For 25 years, Team17’s warmongering invertebrates have battled on computers, consoles, and phones around the world

Features Why Destruction All-Stars embodies an age old PlayStation tradition

Features Expanding your retro collection used to necessitate hunting for used games, but reissues are bucking that trend

Features Retro games must inevitably be played on newer displays, but is this costing us vital visual characteristics of the games we love?

Features 25 years on from release, game directors Takashi Tezuka and Shigefumi Hino discuss the making of a true classic

Features The team at Retro Gamer test this new mini-console

Features Yasushi Adachi tells us how his team crafted one of the sharpest fighters of the era

Features At a time when realism and restraint were fashionable in racing games, Burnout offered a turbo-charged thrill ride.