Latest articles by Nick Thorpe
The 25 best PS2 games of all time
Best List Here's the best PS2 games ever made, from GTA: San Andreas to Silent Hill 2
The 25 best PSP games of all time
Best List Dust off your old handheld and relive the best PSP games ever
The 25 best PS1 games of all-time
Best List Let's wind back the years to look at the 25 best PS1 games from Sony's ground-breaking games console
The 10 best NES games of all-time
Best List From Metroid to Mega Man 2, these are the best NES games to play right now
30 years later, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is still a stone-cold classic: "We wanted to make the third game more epic than Sonic 2"
Features Interview | In conversation with the creators of Sonic 3 and its expansion Sonic & Knuckles
NES devs discuss the process of creating classic retro games that defined a generation
Features Holiday Long Read | Retro Gamer spoke to NES vets on 8-bit coding, sprites, and the future of the old-school console
The making of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Features Nintendo's Takashi Tezuka and Kensuke Tanabe reveal the hard work that went into this legendary SNES classic
The fascinating, complex and generations-spanning history of The Legend of Zelda
Features Join us on a tour of the series as we explore what makes it so exceptional, before taking deep dives into each game
The anatomy of Link: What makes Zelda's protagonist one of the greatest of all time?
Features What is it about the Hero Of Hyrule that makes him such a compelling protagonist across many adventures?
Exploring the legacy of Fatal Fury: The legendary fighting game series that's returning after 23 years
Features Looking back on the history of Fatal Fury, SNK's fighting series that's set to return more than 20 years later
The 25 best Dreamcast games of all-time
Best List From Sonic Adventure to Soulcalibur, ranking the best Sega Dreamcast games ever made
50 things that changed gaming, from Computer Space to virtual reality
Features Retro Gamer looks back at 50 moments that had a major impact on the trajectory of games over the last five decades
How the N64 "confidently signposted our way into the 3D future"
Features Retro Gamer takes an in-depth look at the strengths, influence, and legacy of the N64 with veteran developers
How streaming created the perfect time for GamesMaster to return
Features The presenters tell us how the revived show has benefited from the online age of video games
Super Mario 64 turns 25: Examining the impact of the N64's most revolutionary game
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!"
Annelid antics: How Worms made an art of refining a timeless genre
Features For 25 years, Team17’s warmongering invertebrates have battled on computers, consoles, and phones around the world
From Destruction AllStars to Twisted Metal: A brief history of PlayStation's vehicular combat games
Features Why Destruction All-Stars embodies an age old PlayStation tradition
Let's get physical: Meet the companies reissuing retro classics for audiences new and old
Features Expanding your retro collection used to necessitate hunting for used games, but reissues are bucking that trend
Picture perfect: The fight to preserve retro resolutions in the 4K era
Features Retro games must inevitably be played on newer displays, but is this costing us vital visual characteristics of the games we love?
The making of Yoshi's Island – How Nintendo delivered a sensational successor to Super Mario World
Features 25 years on from release, game directors Takashi Tezuka and Shigefumi Hino discuss the making of a true classic
Evercade is a promising product with teething issues
Features The team at Retro Gamer test this new mini-console
The making of Samurai Shodown, one of the sharpest fighters of the '90s
Features Yasushi Adachi tells us how his team crafted one of the sharpest fighters of the era
