8-Bit Beethoven: Rob Hubbard - One of the most famous and prolific music composers of the 1980s. Yet little known outside of the world of computer gaming.
Banned 80s Arcade Game: Lover Boy - Bizarre doesn't even begin to cover this Pac-Man style vintage arcade game, that unbelievably featured rape as its central theme.
Bizarre Japanese Arcade Machines - Amongst the rows of Tekken machines and bubble gum photo booths in Japanese gaming arcades, are machine cabinets, that'll leave you dumbfounded.
EarthBound: The Trippiest And Most Fucked-Up Cutesy RPG Ever! - The weird world of the SNES game from 1994. How it mirrored real world events, and created a nightmare.
Phantasmagoria: Vintage Gore In FMV! - The controversial survival horror adventure game, and one of the first games to use Full Motion Video. Or just a bad b-movie you had to play!
The Creepy Legend Of The Arcade Game Polybius - The urban legend of the mind-altering arcade game designed as a covert black ops experiment, that appeared in Portland, Oregon.
The Revolution Started Here: Beneath A Steel Sky - The "revolutionary" adventure game from a small software house in Hull, that went up against the big U.S. software houses, and kicked arse!
Top Ten: Weird, Wonderful And Wacky 80s Computer Games - The games that pushed the boundaries of 8-bit home computers, in both technology and all out weirdness.
Will The Last Ninja Out, Please Close The Door? - A personal top ten list of the best and worst of vintage ninja themed video games from the 1980s and 90s.
You Must Defeat Sheng Long To Stand A Chance - One of the greatest hoaxes and most persistent mysteries in gaming history. The character of Sheng Long in the Street Fighter series.
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8-Bit Porn: Mystique And Their Atari 2600 Games - In the 80s a games company released the worst games of all time, while attempting at producing erotic games on an 8-bit console!
Before GTA: The Blood, Guts & Gore Of Carmageddon - Motor vehicle mayhem, inspired by Death Race 2000, one of the many 90s games that caused bloody controversy.
Commodore 64 Vs. Spectrum - The great rivals of early home computing in the 80s, but which was the best computer? Weird Retro compares the two machines.
I Just Found It On The Hard Drive Honest! Weird Retro Porn Games - Warning! If you're offended by dodgy graphics and smutty humour this article isn't for you. Everyone else, go for it!
Shadow Of The Comet: Spot The Famous Actors Faces - The Lovecraftian based game from 1993, that used real actors images for its characters. Can you spot who they used?
The Horror Of Milton Bradley Board Games - We had a lot of Milton Bradley board games in our home as kids. It's only recently I realised how many of them were horror or fantasy related.
Top Ten: Retro Cyberpunk Games - With the creation of the genre in the early 80s, and the rise of home computers, cyberpunk was primed to be exploited as a theme for computer games.
Vintage Horror Games You May Have Missed - Some of the creepiest and best horror themed vintage video games that may have slipped under your radar.
Xmas Games: Festive Freebies & Christmas Cassettes - In the heady days of early home computing, magazines often gave away festive themed cassettes to get us in the holiday spirit.
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