Retro Gamer was the first really successful commercial retrogaming magazine. It has now been around long enough that the first issues could themselves be considered retro. The first issue was published as a quarterly magazine in January 2004 but for most of its life it has been published monthly.
This is one of the special issues titled Videogames Hardware Handbook and covers machines from 1977 to 1999. It's really more of a book at over 250 pages. A new edition of this was released in 2017 that covers machines until 2001. This issue includes:
1977-1979
- Atari 2600
1980-1989
- Intellivision
- Game & Watch
- BBC Micro
- ZX Spectrum
- Dragon 32
- Commodore 64
- Vectrex
- MSX
- Famicom
- Amstrad CPC 464
- Commodore Amiga
- Atari ST
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Sega Master System
- PC Engine
- Sega Mega Drive
- Konix Multi System
- Nintendo Game Boy
- Atari Lynx
1990-1999
- Sega Game Gear
- Super NES
- Philips CD-i
- Sega Mega-CD
- 3D0
- Atari Jaguar
- Sega Saturn
- NEC PC-FX
- Nintendo 64
- Nintendo Virtual Boy
- Game Boy Color
- Sega Dreamcast
- Neo Geo Pocket Color
- Bandai WonderSwan