Retro Rick Romanista in Retro RGamer

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Dec 27, 2008 14:36

This month's centrefold is a strange Dutchman who plays games on an Apple Macintosh?! Who'da thunk it.

RBR2 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 27, 2008 16:02

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14512

Chinny should also take a look at this months (Battlezone cover) since it has an Amstrad collector for the collectors corner section and a retrospective of the 6128

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

zaphod79 wrote:

Chinny should also take a look at this months (Battlezone cover) since it has an Amstrad collector for the collectors corner section and a retrospective of the 6128

Oooh, might take it on holiday with me. Cheers for the heads up.

Meanwhile I've had the C64 out and have been playing Bruce Lee, Ghostbusters, Barbarian 2 and IK+.

IK+ is totally over-rated. Bruce Lee is cool but the Speccy version is also great.

Ghostbusters is pretty much the same on the CPC and Barbarian 2 has better graphics on the CPC.

That is all.

romanista · **Posted:** Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:06

ah, it's a meeee! darran emailed me somewhere in the summer with some questions (ionce posted my site for theregtrogamer directory in some thread over there), and yeah! better go updaitng macretor then!

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

are there any scans around? Nothing else in this issue interests me.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

The issue isn't in the shops until Jan 2nd.

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

chinnyhill10 wrote:

The issue isn't in the shops until Jan 2nd.

so isn't the one featured on the website with the christmas cover?

Besides, RG gets on my nerves with their multi-issue features.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14512

RuySan wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

The issue isn't in the shops until Jan 2nd.

so isn't the one featured on the website with the christmas cover?
Besides, RG gets on my nerves with their multi-issue features.

No , its a battlezone cover.

RuySan wrote:

are there any scans around? Nothing else in this issue interests me.

Are you just looking for a scan of an individual feature ? , if so which one ?

romanista · **Posted:** Mon Dec 29, 2008 16:30

the one with me, doh!

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

obviously.

Not only because it's a fellow forum member, but i also like that feature, specially when people collect really specific things, like the guy who collected everything metroid

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14512

Cover :

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h99/ml_/cover.png

Article :

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h99/ml_/retro1.png

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14512

RuySan wrote:

obviously.

Not only because it's a fellow forum member, but i also like that feature, specially when people collect really specific things, like the guy who collected everything metroid

Yeah but this isnt the collection section (which is about an Amstrad collector) this is the website review :-)

myp · **Posted:** Mon Dec 29, 2008 17:07

Alternative title: Ravishing Rude Rick's Reccy into Retro Rgamer.

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

Baldur's Gate + Head Over Heels?

I might buy this after all

And romanista isn't as geeky as i pictured him, but i didn't knew he was a mac user anyway.

Sheepeh · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2320

Awesome-sauce.

I've been told my issue is waiting for me at home so I'll have a flick through it tomorrow.

CraigGrannell · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1639

RuySan wrote:

Baldur's Gate + Head Over Heels?

It's actually a fairly lengthy interview with Ritman rather than a HoH feature (although HoH also features in the hatefully designed top 25 isometric games feature).

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

CraigGrannell wrote:

RuySan wrote:

Baldur's Gate + Head Over Heels?

It's actually a fairly lengthy interview with Ritman rather than a HoH feature (although HoH also features in the hatefully designed top 25 isometric games feature).

I took one look at the start of that and was convinced it was a printing error. Did someone REALLY think it was a good idea?

CraigGrannell · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1639

Dudley wrote:

I took one look at the start of that and was convinced it was a printing error. Did someone REALLY think it was a good idea?

God knows. Maybe the designer was drunk or something. It kind of worked when they did my Marble Madness piece's strapline/standfirst like that, but a whole article? Crazy. Mind you, maybe there was a little too much gin this month, given what a total mess was made of the Battlezone images (despite copious production notes being sent). Still, the cover was really nice (my first cover in a 38 issues!), and I enjoyed the articles that I could read (such as the Ritman interview, which was nicely designed).

Maybe the BZ thing is Retro Gamer 'karma' for me mislabelling a CPC shot as a C64 grab last month.

romanista · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:36

RuySan wrote:

And romanista isn't as geeky as i pictured him, but i didn't knew he was a mac user anyway.

thanx, i think

(and MacRetro has been in my sig for the last four years, so that might have given you the mac hint, you are making a statement here though: aren mac users less geeky? I certain weays,they often are more geeky, don't ya)

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