Head Over Heels, Treasure Island Dizzy, Attack Of The Mutant Camels, Jet Set Willy, and more are celebrated in this love letter to UK retro gaming.
Retro gaming is now so ingrained in the market that it no longer feels like a niche, but more like a mainstream sector of the industry. The average age of gamers is getting older and older, which makes nostalgia a useful pitch for developers looking to mine a few ideas from the good old days. Retro is often no more than skin deep though, with plenty of modern games opting for pixel art styling, even though their gameplay is nothing like the 16-bit games they resemble.
The original Lumo is now almost a decade old and took rather a different approach. It looked like a modern take on ZX Spectrum classic Knight Lore, presenting its levels as char