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    MAILBAG

    May 13, 2021 3 minutes

    NOVEL IDEA

    Hi Retro Gamer,

    Ever since the release of the PS Vita (and now the Nintendo Switch) I’ve been enjoying visual novels and was wondering if RG had ever done a feature on this genre? I have no idea of the origins of visual novels and just how far back gamers in the UK were able to enjoy them. I don’t recall seeing them on my glorious ZX Spectrum back in the Eighties, although that was a lifetime ago, so I might’ve forgotten!

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