Nick picked up gaming after being introduced to Donkey Kong and Centipede on his dad's Atari 2600, and never looked back. He joined the Retro Gamer team in 2013 and is currently the magazine's Features Editor, writing long reads about the creation of classic games and the technology that powered them. He's a tinkerer who enjoys repairing and upgrading old hardware, including his prized Neo Geo MVS, and has a taste for oddities including FMV games and bizarre PS2 budget games. A walking database of Sonic the Hedgehog trivia. He has also written for Edge, games™, Linux User & Developer, Metal Hammer and a variety of other publications.
Latest articles by Nick Thorpe

By Retro Gamer Team, Nick Thorpe Published
Features For 25 years, Team17’s warmongering invertebrates have battled on computers, consoles, and phones around the world

By Nick Thorpe Published
Features Why Destruction All-Stars embodies an age old PlayStation tradition

By Nick Thorpe, Retro Gamer Team Published
Features Expanding your retro collection used to necessitate hunting for used games, but reissues are bucking that trend

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Features Retro games must inevitably be played on newer displays, but is this costing us vital visual characteristics of the games we love?

By Nick Thorpe, Retro Gamer Team Published
Features 25 years on from release, game directors Takashi Tezuka and Shigefumi Hino discuss the making of a true classic

By Nick Thorpe Published
Features The team at Retro Gamer test this new mini-console

By Nick Thorpe Published
Features Yasushi Adachi tells us how his team crafted one of the sharpest fighters of the era

By Nick Thorpe, Darran Jones Published
Features At a time when realism and restraint were fashionable in racing games, Burnout offered a turbo-charged thrill ride.

By Nick Thorpe Published
Features Retro Gamer sits down with the creators of Resident Evil 2 Remake to find out why the original is so legendary

By Nick Thorpe Published
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