Egad! I pop off on holiday for a couple of weeks and Sony go and release a full list of the titles they’re baking into the Playstation classic. Needless to say, the list has proved to be a little bit divisive. In fact, given that Read More …
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Music Review: Wiwi Jumbo
This was originally written for the lovely peeps over at gametripper.co.uk. So why not give them a visit as well? I feel a bit of a fraud writing this. I wish I could say that Wiwi Jumbo was a track Read More …
A Long Lost Spectrum game Inlay
Sorry i haven’t been as active around here lately, but until everything’s back to normal here’s a nice tid bit brought to my attention by Ocean veteran Mark Jones (who’s well worth a follow if you’re interested in Spectrum art stuff.) Now, if you’re into Read More …
In Defence of. . Electronic Arts!?
Electronic Arts, eh. Why does everyone hate them so much? Ok, that’s a bit of an easy one to answer if I’m honest: Shutting popular studios, unleashing Origin, the legacy of the Ea Spouse stuff, the revolving door of controversies surrounding their Downloadable Content Policies. . Read More …
A 24 Year Old Fashion Magazine
Criticism of the presence of politics in videogames seems a bit bizarre. Did none of the complainers play Desert Strike when growing up? Or Civilisation? Or Theme Park? There remains, however, one complaint that seems like it may have some validity: Surely no one can Read More …
Three Sega Soundtracks you may have missed
Thursday was a truly magnificent day: Completely out of the blue, Sega made a ton of their soundtrack albums available on Spotify. Blimey! The only problem with having access to such a large collection is the question of where to start. As I have a feeling Read More …
I unlocked my NES Mini
If you’re interested in old videogames, you probably already know that some clever chaps have worked out how to add new games to the NES mini. Now, generally I’m quite a cautious sort, so when it comes to unauthorised 3rd party hacks that can brick Read More …
A New ZX80
Now you probably know we’re big fans of the Spectrum in these here parts, so I was very excited to learn this morning that someone’s created a new clone of the Sinclair Zx80, dubbed the Minstrel. As it was the first computer that was available on the Read More …
This is probably the best thing you’ll see today…
. . .Or maybe just the best thing i’ll see today. At any rate, I’m not sure can you beat a segment about computer music on a vintage show about 80’s Micro computers. Who needs a DAW when you can have a midi-enabled Spectrum, eh? Read More …
The Saturn Shinobi
Today we’re going to look at an unusual one: The Saturn Shinobi. Hang on for a second, oh mighty internet pedants. I know tha’ts not its real name. The problem, however, is just what name do we use to address the Saturn’s Shinobi title? In Read More …
Zx Spectrum Day: Why should you care about the ZX Spectrum?
For Zx Spectrum day over at Skirmish Frogs, I produced a couple of articles explaining why the Speccy is so important to UK gamers. I thought id combine them both into one super article here so, without further ado, here you go! If there’s an Read More …
An Unsung giant of 80’s Gaming
This company helped define video games throughout the mid 80’s and early 90’s, but you probably wouldn’t think of them as a videogame company. Don’t believe me? Their tech was used in both the Megadrive and the Japanese Master System, but they aren’t anything to do Read More …
Has online video game discussion always been so unpleasant?
If you’ve found your way to this article, I probably don’t need to tell you that online gaming discussion gets a bit of a bad press. From the constant harassment of developers over minor gameplay tweaks through to the vitriol aimed at women, there’s a Read More …
Crazy Cars II
A rose, as some talentless hack once put it, may well smell as sweet by some other name…but there’s no denying that certain titles come with some pretty unavoidable connotations. Take the name ‘Crazy Cars’ for example. I don’t know about you, but I can’t Read More …
Unveiling the brand new FatNicK Store!
Well, in case you haven’t noticed, there’s nothing I like more than tinkering with things around here – and up until today the store was a bit of a bug bear. Not only did I have the vague intention of introducing Paypal integration at some Read More …
The SG-1000 and My first year of Everdrivin’
Crikey! It’s already been a year since i bought my first Everdrive. Lets have a look at it, shall we? For those not in the know, an Everdrive is an ingenious invention. While your average cartridge game contains a simple PCB containing a read-only ROM, Read More …
New Year’s Resolutions
Last year I actually made some New Year’s Resolutions. Lets see how they went: Do a spot of tidying up around ‘ere Finish the E.P. I started at the end of last year Make an actual fully fledged game. Well i completed 1 at least 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 …
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 …
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 …