In gaming there are the origin stories we all know – like the origins of Mario and Sonic the hedgehog – but there are many more characters who remain relatively obscure – like the stars of most microcomputer budget games or Japanese cassette titles. More Read More …
Uh oh, Christmas is inevitably a time for misty-eyed nostalgia isn’t it? Oh well – at least its the perfect time to look back 18 years to the festivities of 2001, back to the first time I played Headhunter on the Sega Dreamcast. The back-half Read More …
Originally, I wasn’t enamored with the Sega Dreamcast. In fact, it’s a bit strange I even remember my first encounter, really: While my first encounters with new hardware generations were generally outlook-changing, my first look at the Dreamcast was a bit of a damp squib. Read More …
Everyone loves the Untitled Goose Game. I love the Untitled Goose Game. If you haven’t played the untitled Goose Game, you should play the Untitled Goose Game: A stealth game that follows in the footsteps of Metal Gear Solid and Hitman, Goose Game’s masterstroke is Read More …
Have you ever wondered why arcade control sticks were always placed to the the left of the buttons? To be honest I’d never given it much thought until I saw this tweet the other day: Have you ever noticed that no matter what arcade game Read More …
All good things come to an end. In my case this turned out to be the relatively cushy storage solution i had for all of my old Spectrum gear. Still, silver linings and all that: One of the big advantages of having to get your Read More …
This article was originally posted over at https://www.gametripper.co.uk. Why not head over there and see what lovely articles they have ready for you to read right now? (well, after you’ve read this one obviously) When is a game not a game? The usual response to Read More …
When it isn’t doing is it’s upmost to sabotage Western democracy, one thing that can be said for Facebook is that it does have some of the friendliest retro communities on the internet. A few weeks ago one particular discussion caught my eye: how popular Read More …
Whether its the sheer mortal terror of a thousand red bodies angrily devouring flesh and bone or the more mundane worry of having endless ravenous insectoids trample your picnic; the thought of streaming ants has – historically – not been a pleasant one. That’s all Read More …
One of the little-known facts about the 32x (although, thanks to it’s colossal commercial failure, most facts about the 32x are little-known) is that its a pretty good console for space combat games. Seriously – they make up about 10% of the entire library. Read More …
So after a tremendous amount of build up, Sonic Mania has finally been released. The first “proper” Sonic game in over 20 years, this should naturally be right up every aged Sonic fan’s alley. I can’t say I’m quite as enamoured as everyone else Read More …
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 …
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 …
Although my heart is generally in the old and peculiar stuff, I’m not entirely detached from modern gaming. Consequently, when i saw that Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst was in the Origin new year sale I pounced on it like, well, a great big pouncy thing. I’m not Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …