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Copter 271
When you look at the title of our next GX4000 game, Copter 271, it looks like something’s missing…a ‘Heli,’ perhaps? Either way, it turns out that the title’s pretty apt. Turn the power on, and you’ll find out that there’s something missing throughout your gaming Read More …
Why isn’t Toejam & Earl at The Top of Every Best Soundtrack Poll?
24 years ago, my brother and I stumbled towards the end of classic intergalactic Megadrive adventure Toejam & Earl. Though we’d previously borrowed it from a friend, this was the first time we were playing through on our own chunky cartridge – and we were Read More …
Why Weren’t They Released Here: Galaxy Force & Gale Racer
The poor Sega Saturn. He definitely hasn’t had much love around here has he? That’s definitely not to say he’s a bad little machine though…so lets change things up by looking at a couple of Sega Saturn titles that didn’t make it out of Japan: Read More …
The Megadrive is 25 Years Old…Part II
Blimey! it’s been two years since I, err, celebrated the Megadrive’s quarter century by destroying a cartridge. Weirdly, however, the Megadrive’s 25 again today. How can that be? Well, two flippin years was the amount of time it took for the Megadrive to leave Japan Read More …
Burnin’ Rubber
Blimey! Three reviews in and we’ve finally stumbled upon a GX4000 exclusive…and pretty much the most important exclusive at that! Developed by Ocean specifically for Amstrad, Burnin’ Rubber was the title that every GX4000 and CPC+ owner found sunggly packed into their new console’s polystyrene Read More …
Batman
Players: 1 Genre: Action We live in strange times. On the one hand we have a bizarre cultural fetish for 8-bit video game aesthetics, while on the other we often deride the actual 8-bit titles themselves (unless they are one of the safe, untouchable few.) Read More …
New Game Discovered: Wonderland Dizzy
After a week of cryptic shenanigans, The Oliver Twins have announced the discovery of a new Dizzy game! Hurrah! (As a side note, it’s Dizzy. Not Dizzy the Egg. Saying Dizzy the Egg is like saying Thomas a Becket. Just stop it.) Developed for Read More …
I’m Back, Ocean & The 30 Worst Video Games
Coo-eee I’m back! Well, that was a nice break. I’ve been away on holiday in Florida for the last couple of weeks, which is why things have been a bit quiet around here. Things will get back up to speed shortly. In the meantime, if Read More …
Why Wasn’t It Released Here: Outlander
I think I might have a new favourite Megadrive game – and an almost topical one too, considering how excited everyone was getting about Mad Max recently. Released in 1992, Outlander is, quite literally, Road Warrior: the video game. It has Mad Max in it, Read More …
New Release: Communique From a Dying Star
Eek! It appears that I’ve been caught slightly off guard. Despite having only submitting the final master around 48 hours ago, my new track is up on iTunes and Spotify now! Despite the cunningly generic sci-fi themed title, this track has a more terrestrial-based inspiration. Read More …
Communique From a. . .
Can you build an entire Drum’n’Bass track around some drums sampled from arcade classic ‘Rad Mobile’ and a highly glitchy Sonic Spinball death chime? I’d like to think that this track proves that you can. Preview Buy/Stream
Videogame Soundtrack Vinyls
I feel a bit miserly. On paper, you would think that the re-release of videogame soundtracks on socially-acceptable audio formats would be something I could definitely get behind. Particularly if it lead to a general renaissance of the FM soundtrack side of things (I could Read More …
Spotify & Apple Music: An Addendum
One thing I would just like to add to my previous post about music streaming: It definitely is an exciting time to be part of the streaming music club. Here’s a look at my stats from January this year to June: I Read More …
Spotify, Apple Music & Why I’m rubbish at the music biz
I’ve been thinking of writing something on the whole music streaming world for a while now. Thankfully, Jasper Hamill over at The Mirror has given me an excuse with his vaguely partisan article on Apple Music. As both an artist and a keen listener, I’ll Read More …
Review a Bad Game Day 2015: Technocop
The folks over at 1Morecastle have shut up shop, meaning there’s no one to administer Review a Bad Game day this year. Ooh eck! But while there are still bad games that need reviewing, we might as well continue to review them, yes? Let’s take Read More …
Barbarian II
Genre: Adventure Players: 1 Its always best to start how you mean to go on isn’t it? How fitting, then, that the first GX4000 game we examine is one of the old CPC ports that dominated the GX4000’s library. Originally Released in 1988, Barbarian Read More …
Cricket Special!
Ooh! The Ashes are here! The Ashes are here! and they’re going on…RIGHT NOW. To celebrate, lets have a look at the cricket output of unarguably the best cricket game developer of all time, Brian Lara Cricket creators Audiogenic. Graham Gooch’s Test Cricket Released in Read More …
General Feelings of Hope.
Ten years ago London, my home in pretty much every sense of the word you could possibly imagine, came under attack. Given the circumstances, I doubt anyone who was in the city on that day will ever forget what they were up to/who they were Read More …
Welcome to the new Mechafatnick.co.uk!
It’s almost three years since I finally got round to building myself a dinky little WordPress site. Blimey! The Internet’s come on a bit since then hasn’t it? Although I previously had the rather excellent WPTouch plugin installed, I’ve been considering making a fully responsive Read More …