Old Skool Invasion – DS and PSP preview feature

Old is the new new, if the best of the games coming up on your handheld this year are anything to go by. Releases of many old favourites, including Impossible Mission, Theme Park, Mega Man and the perennial favourite Sim City are set to arrive on the PSP and the DS very soon, in a huge retro revival. Check out our roundup of the best of the oldies coming your way on both the PSP and the DS in our brilliant Old Skool Invasion preview feature. Click here to read the full Old Skool Invasion DS and PSP preview feature now!

Old Skool Invasion
Forget Virtual Console. Xbox Live Arcade? Pah. If you’re really after a retro fix, you’re far better off powering up your handheld. For starters, there’s Impossible Mission set for a DS and PSP update this Spring. Twenty-five years on from it s original Commodore 64 release, System 3’s plat former is taking its portable bow, a few years after a planned Gameboy Advance release was shelved. Featuring brand new graphics and sound, this new iteration features the original game, along with a brand new version, and a third mode which combines the first game’s design with the enhanced audio-visuals of the remake. Pretty comprehensive then.

For those unaware of the setting, the brilliantly-named Professor Elvin Atombender has been tampering with national security computers, and it’s up to you – playing a secret agent infiltrating his base – to try and find the missing pieces of a password to locate the professor and foil his plan.

HGZine is a full, free to download magazine dedicated to Sony PSP and Nintendo DS gaming. This issue includes over 30 pages of games coverage, all written by professional UK games journalists. The information on this page refers to just one part of the whole magazine, which features the reviews of Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, Harvest Moon, Virtua Tennis 3, Test Drive Unlimited and many more PSP and DS games. Additionally we have a roundup of retro classics including Impossible Mission and Mega Man coming to the handheld platforms and news on he PSP release of Final Fantasy: The Lion War. There's loads more too, and it's all enhanced with video and multimedia. Simply click to download and you will get the complete magazine.

Please note that this magazine is an enhanced PDF file and is therefore designed to work primarily on the PC using Adobe Reader 8. We do not currently produce versions to display on mobile platforms, such as the PSP, as sadly we would have to remove a lot of the interactive functionality from the magazine.