Retrogaming Magazines

If you thought the golden age of gaming magazines was over think again! There are now numerous excellent titles dedicated to various kinds of retrogaming so I thought I’d make you aware of some of the best below :

Retro Gamer - Published monthly and available in most branches of WH Smith this is the best title of the lot in my opinion, a 114 page A4 publication covering all aspects of retrogaming including guides, ‘making of’ features, letters, reviews and much more, it’s a must read for any retrogamer and a magazine I truly look forward to dropping through the letterbox each month as part of my subscription!

Ninty Fresh - From the same publishers as the excellent ‘SwitchPlayer’ this is published four times a year and covers mostly retro Nintendo although there are some modern day Switch reviews included too, there have so far been three issues and each issue has a main theme, the last issue was Pokemon themed and the next issue will have a Zelda theme to it.  Each issue is put up for funding on Kickstarter, the campaign for Issue 4 has now finished but the campaign on Kickstarter for Issue 5 will begin in due course.  Current and back issues are available from https://nintyfresh.net/

Crash - The iconic ZX Spectrum magazine returns as a bi-monthly 60-page publication featuring news, reviews, features, letters and pretty much everything the Spectrum fan could want! 

Subscriptions available at https://www.patreon.com/crashmagazine and current and back issues from https://fusionretrobooks.com/collections/crash-magazine

Zzap 64 - The equally iconic Commodore 64 magazine returns also as a bi-monthly 60-page publication again featuring news, reviews, features and letters and everything for the C64 fan!

Subscriptions available at https://www.patreon.com/zzapmagazine and current & back issues from https://fusionretrobooks.com/collections/zzap-64-magazine  

Another publication is also planned - an Amstrad CPC magazine called AmtixCPC - subscriptions now available from https://www.patreon.com/amtixcpcmagazine

Fusion - A monthly publication covering a mixture of retrogaming, current gen gaming, toys, indie and tabletop - it’s a excellent and varied read each month and one I really look forward to - highly recommended!

Subscriptions available at https://www.patreon.com/fusionmagazine and current and back issues from https://fusionretrobooks.com/collections/fusion-magazine

If you have a subscription to the digital magazine app Readly - digital editions of Fusion, Zzap 64 and Crash have just been added.

Retro Format - And last but not least this is a relatively new publication having had only 2 issues so far although issues 3 and 4 are coming soon, a good quality varied read and again highly recommended.

Subscriptions and current and back issues available from https://www.retro-format.com/retroformat.php