Lara Croft made her debut in Tomb Raider and what a debut it was. This was the start of a franchise that is still going today. This game also represents the media savviness of, then, new to gaming Sony. Core Design, based in the United Kingdom at the time of development, were responsible for bringing […]
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider Makes Her Professional PlayStation Sega Saturn and PC Debut – November 14th, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
November 13th, 2020
Carl Williams
Top 10 Games Coming in 2018 to Watch for
January 29th, 2018
Carl Williams 2017 was a momentous year for gamers. From Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to Mario Odyssey on Nintendo Switch to cross platform success stories like Resident Evil: Biohazzard, 2017 was big. How will 2018 top arguably the best year in gaming since we left the Dreamcast to die? With more great titles […]
Lara Croft: New Sales Details Reveal Retro Gaming Icon is in Rude Health
November 30th, 2017
Carl Williams It says a lot about how quickly technology and the gaming world have evolved that a character which first hit our screens just over 20 years ago can be placed in the pantheon of much-loved retro gaming icons. However, the adventures of everyone’s favorite Tomb Raider Lara Croft have been such an important part of […]
Tomb Raider II Comes to Android and iOS with Gold in Tow
November 1st, 2015
Carl Williams Square Enix have released the second Tomb Raider game onto Android and iOS devices. The control scheme is almost exactly as it was in the original release from April of this year so if you hated it there, well, it isn’t better here. Tomb Raider II is one of the more interesting 3D action titles […]
10 Classics that Let You Build Your Own Levels before Super Mario Maker
October 3rd, 2015
Carl Williams To say Super Mario Maker is a smash hit release is quite an understatement. The 2D sandbox game had reached a million units sold worldwide in about 20 days, according to reports. This is interesting considering the hell Nintendo constantly gets for the Wii U, something that goes back to the Nintendo 64 days and […]
Lara Croft Go Comes to Android and iOS, Remembers Windows Phone Too
August 27th, 2015
Carl Williams The Tomb Raider series is one that has been all over the place as far as the fans are concerned. The first one took gaming by storm, the second was “alright” and the third is quite forgettable. The series just goes up and down from there all the way up to current generation platforms. Recently, […]
Five Games You Need the Japanese Version to Fully Enjoy
July 12th, 2015
Michael Crisman It’s not news to say the Japanese get tons of stuff the rest of the world doesn’t, but at least they throw non-Asian gamers a bone every now and then. Usually this is in the form of a simple port, where all the text is translated and (hopefully) localized for the target market. This localization process […]
Anna Tyrie, Tomb Raider Fan Film and More Actress Interview
November 18th, 2013
Carl Williams We are big Tomb Raider fans here at Retro Gaming Magazine, and why not? What other lady in gaming has kicked so much butt and done so much cool stuff? Certainly not Princess Peach/Toadstool, all she could do is get kidnapped and hauled away to some far off place only to wait for Mario to […]
Today in History: November 14th, 1996- Lara Croft Begins Spelunking in Tomb Raider
November 16th, 2013
Carl Williams Tomb Raider is one of those games that came along during a magical time of gaming, the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit. A time when developers were trying to show off new styles of games that the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. At first the games were pretty blocky polygonal messes on the new, for […]
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