The 80s is on its way back...

A classic UK video game from the 80s is about to become the most belated sequel ever, thanks to one of the original programmers.

Taylor Wolfe couldn't believe her mom slept soundly without any kind of baby monitor.

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Handheld versions of the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum are being released later this year, loaded with 25 classic games in each.

From Space Invaders in the late 1970s to SSX Tricky in the early 2000s, a reader recounts his early history with video games and how being in the army didn’t stop him playing.

A reader returns to Sinclair ZX81 classic 3D Monster Maze and finds arguably the first ever survival horror game to still be impressively frightening.

The Friday letters page hears more tales of people getting teary-eyed over video games, as a reader is frustrated at Borderlands 4’s hidden extras.

1983 smash hit Chuckie Egg is being remade for mobile phones, and we’ve spoken to the bedroom programming teen protégé that originally made it.

A reader explains why he’s been playing the same ZX Spectrum game for almost four decades and what it’s connection to XCOM is.

The Thursday letters page lists its favourite ZX Spectrum games, as one reader is resigned to the fact there’ll probably never be an XCOM 3.

Former Technōs developer Yoshihisa Kishimoto has died, leaving behind a legacy of influential beat ‘em-ups including the Renegade and River City franchises.

She's comfortable as a pop icon now.

'You should be calling me an a**hole.'

It became the biggest hit of the series at the box office.

Childhood has changed. Even kids who grow up today with a minimal diet of screen time and iPads will have a far different experience in today's modern world than those who grew up before the internet. Childhood was simpler for Boomers and Gen Xers, in many ways. Not always better, but there was definitely something special about its simplicity. Some parts of it no longer exist.

Where the…