The 10th of October 2004 was a Wednesday. As it was a Wednesday, I wouldn’t have been in university. Instead, I should have been at home working on my research. As it was November 2004, I wasn’t working on my research. I was playing Outrun Read More …
What’s this? Someone made a Godzilla game for the Speccy? Why haven’t i heard of this before? Is this the title to put an end to the Big Gs run of largely terrible games? Let’s fire it up! Please don’t be rubbish. . . Please Read More …
The internet community’s a funny old thing isn’t it? In the old days, the only options you had for judging a game’s overall popularity were ELSPA charts and magazine reviews . Nowadays, even the most obscure titles have fan pages, gamefaqs entries and Youtube videos. Read More …
Do you remember Review A Great Game Day 2013? No? That’s ok. It was a while ago (a year, in fact) and a lot has happened in the interim. So then Last year, I chose to review the rather tremendous Speccy Beat ’em up Target Read More …
Its cold, its wet, its nasty and half the country is underwater. There’s only one thing for it: it’s time for an Outrun marathon. Dissapointingly though, Outrun is covered pretty well online. From dedicated fan sites through to socialist analysis theres a staggering amount of material covering almost Read More …
So the other day we discovered that licensed games aren’t all rubbish, but are they actually any good? We’re not looking at games that simply avoided being turkeys, today only the best will do. Once again, I’ve opted to go for a single Read More …
Today, I want to take an tentative look at the subject of licensed games. We all know the contradiction: Everyone has a number of favourite licensed games (be it Goldeneye on the N64, Robocop Vs Terminator on the Megadrive, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Read More …
So today i want to talk about Strider on the Master System. Licensed by Sega but developed by Tiertex (they of HKM fame,) it’s a largely terrible conversion. This is a bit odd though. Tiertex also put together the Spectrum port, which was actually a Read More …
So the other day, 1morepodcastle host/Nintendo Legend author Eric Bailey posed an interesting question on twitter: What single video game has contributed more than any other to the public’s negative perception of gaming? — Eric Bailey (@Nintendo_Legend) July 2, 2013 Of course, a lot of Read More …
I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Jumping Flash! I first encountered it on one of the demo disks (what a quaint concept!) originally bundled with the Playstation One (the disk also included demos of Wipeout, Ridge Racer Revolution and a nifty Read More …