Eight Games That Defined The Nintendo 64
March the 4th will see the release of Bitmap Books’ latest visual compendium. Highlight...
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Six Of The Best: SNES RPGs
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), or Super Famicom, was a haven for role-...
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...
Plotting the Evolution of the Scrolling Beat-’Em-Up
Fighting games’ closest cousin is an oft-misunderstood genre. But how did the humble brawler evolve from the same roots as Street Fighter?
Inside the success and failure of SEGA’s contradictory console
The Master System is a retro gaming star with a tremendous legacy, and an also-ran that struggled to make impact. But how could that be?
