Retro Golden Age Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · Published March 31, 2023 · Updated March 31, 2023

We go back in time with our Retro Golden Age Review, not content with one game we in fact get three! Goody, the original SPECTRUM action, platform, and puzzle game from the eighties, puts you in the shoes of an expert bank robber, and then we have Livingstone I Presume David Livingstone, a famous English missionary and explorer, went to Africa on a sanitary and cartographic mission to establish the Zambeza and Nile river basins when he disappeared… and finally Operation Alexandra which is an arcade video game that takes place inside an abandoned Nazi base in Alexandra Land, within the Arctic Circle, inhabited by unknown beings.

Retro Golden Age Review Pros:

Beautiful graphics.
Three games in one – Goody, Livingstone I presume, and Operation Alexandra.
Download sizes –
- Goody – 713.22MB.
- Livingstone – 584.88MB.
- Operation Alexandria – 678.28MB.
36 Steam Achievements. (12 in each game)
Own in-game achievements that are different from the steam ones.
Seperate downloads and entries in your Steam library.
Full controller support.
Important note on how this came to be:

This production is a partnership with the studios (Operasoft and 4Mhz) and Zerouno Games. They have provided us (Zerouno Games) with the original materials needed to start the reverse engineering process that has allowed us to develop the improvements you can find in these versions.

80s-style opening screens.
Instruction manuals act as a tutorial.
Real-world desktop menu design.
Achievements earned are displayed as trophies on your room shelf.
The extras menu shows off original box art, scans of loading screens, and scans of the original game cassettes and floppy discs.
Two ways to play – 80s experience (no saves), and new experience.
Rewind the system for each game.
Save when you want.
Four save slots.
3 screen types – original, no border, and fullscreen.
The rewind system creates snapshots/slides so you can be precise.
At any time you can flip the view and filters instantly.
The filters include CRT and that fuzzy one.
The manual isn’t available actually in the game but it pauses and allows you to go back into your room.
Controls are shown for both keyboard and the controller.
Restart button option.
Difficult.
Each game has its own desktop layout and design.
Music for each game has two options.
Achievements pop us as they are earned in the game.
Supports both analog and d-pad controls.
Excellent nostalgia trip.
Solid controls.
Offers a mix of the original games and a more lenient version with saves and rewinding.
Excellent soundtracks.

Retro Golden Age Review Cons:

Cannot rebind controls.
Takes a lot of getting used to as it is just how I remember games like this… Hard.
The rewind system is fine but a handy hold-down button would probably work better.
Difficult.
Cannot skip the opening screens.
No graphics settings.
It’s a bit annoying that the games are not one package in terms of being able to jump between them.

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