East Versus West: PC Engine And TurboGrafx-16 Covers
Originally launched in 1987, The PC Engine console – known as the TurboGrafx-16 in Amer...
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How Easter Eggs first hatched in video games
In the early 1980’s 15 year-old Adam Clayton noticed a rather unusual hidden message wh...
Brain training: The Greatest Game Boy Puzzle Games
Puzzle games and the Game Boy go hand in hand. With its small screen and – how to put t...
The Konami Code: How a string of button presses unleashed a tidal wave of cheat codes
At Bitmap Books, we like to think we are cataloguing the very best of video games histo...
Hurt Me Plenty – the rise of God Mode
The developers of DOOM broke new ground in making it simple for players to cheat. Other games either didn’t include cheats at all or required you to wait until a certain point to enter them, such as the “magic word” Xyzzy in the text game Colossal Cave Adventure.
State of the Art: Games That Pushed The Commodore Amiga
It was often portrayed as a serious machine for serious users. However, as time passed, it became clear that this new 16-bit computer was a multi-media powerhouse and a perfect destination for game developers.
