Retro Video Game and Culture blogs from the Bitmap Books team

Glorious Gremlin: 8 Iconic Gremlin Games

From 1984 onwards, Sheffield software house Gremlin released quality game after game th...

By Graeme Mason November 14, 2023

Here at Bitmap Books, we love video game cover art. So much so, our latest book, The Ar...

By Graeme Mason September 26, 2023

Here at Bitmap Books, we love arcade gaming. These glowing temples to neon and pixels r...

By Graeme Mason July 11, 2023

In 1988 the Famicom (or 'NES' as it was known outside Japan) had sold a little over 25 ...

By Nate Drake June 15, 2023

Originally launched in 1987, The PC Engine console – known as the TurboGrafx-16 in Amer...

By Graeme Mason May 15, 2023

In the early 1980’s 15 year-old Adam Clayton noticed a rather unusual hidden message wh...

By Nate Drake April 8, 2023