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A Star Wars Remake? This Time, By The Fans, For The Fans

A Star Wars Remake? This Time, By The Fans, For The Fans

If you want to relive the experiences of the original Star Wars movie, brought right up to date using the best of crowd sourcing Web 2.0, then head over to Star Wars: Uncut

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Eggnchips.com Mystery Retro Object Challenge #1

Take the eggnchips.com Mystery Retro Object Challenge

Be the first to identify our mysterious retro object and earn much kudos!

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Neon Boxes

Neon Boxes

Do you have a good memory? Copy arrangements to complete the game.

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Eggnchips.com Mystery Retro Challenge #2

Welcome to this weeks instalment in our series of mystery retro challenges – and again there is much kudos on offer to anyone who can identify the retro object and leave a note in comments. By the way, did you guess last weeks challenge correctly? If so, well done – it was a tricky one. [...]

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Warcraft Retro Gaming Sets the Stage for Popular Games Today

Millions of people around the world know the word Warcraft but associate it only with the MMO sensation World of Warcraft. Many of these gamers don’t realize that before there was a full world of Warcraft there were just a few Orcs and Humans. The original game was actually titled Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. The [...]

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Retro Game Lookback: The Human Race for Commodore 64

      What can we say about “The Human Race”, developed by John D. Ferrari and released by Mastertronic, in 1985, for the Commodore 64? Well, the inlay card says it all, “Play the game that took 35 million years to create!!!” – if three exclamation marks isn’t enough then I just don’t know what is [...]

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Book Review Tuesday: A Look Back at the Annual

Something a bit different this week, rather than reviewing a book, I’m looking back at a whole genre – the annual – and highlighting my favourites. In the 1970s, one of the must-have stocking filler presents for most children was an annual – no, not a bedding plant, a yearly book published (usually) by one [...]

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Retro Computer: Acorn Electron

The Acorn Electron, like a cross between the Acorn Atom and the BBC Micro. One of my earliest memories of Acorn was the mono Acorn Atom which always reminds me a little of this machine that came later. In the image above you can see the Plus 1 expansion system which allowed up to two [...]

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Retro Game Lookback: Horace Goes Skiing For ZX Spectrum

    Horace Goes Skiing, from William Tang for Beam Software, was released in 1982 on the Sinclair label (at least the Sinclair ZX Spectrum version was), which also conveyed the “Software by Psion with Melbourne House” collaboration for distribution. Horace was one of the earliest popular character brands on home computer games – appearing from [...]