So, making good on my New Years Resolution, yesterday was the first day I tried to MAKE A GAME. But how, exactly, do you go about making a game if your only major prior experience of game design is Epic’s classic DOS Adventure title ZZT? Read More …
Tag: Games
10 years ago, I wasn’t supposed to be playing Outrun 2
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 …
Godzilla and The Martians
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 …
On #Gamergate and Journalistic Integrity
Blimey, things got a bit heated over the weekend didn’t they? What with Zoe Quinn revealing the identity of the folks behind her harassment and the accompanying storm of FURY, etc. Interestingly, regardless of whether or not it was started by 4Channers, the #gamergate hash-tag, Read More …
Push Off You Disgusting Pervert: Streaker (ZX Spectrum)
With all the talk of ZX Spectrum related stuff on here lately, why don’t we take a look at another Speccy classic: Streaker. First a shocking admission. We didn’t actually own an official copy of Streaker over at Fatnick towers. Our copy was an illicit Read More …
The Genesis is 25 years old!
Crickey, 25 years ago the Sega Genesis launched in the US. That can’t be right, surely? It is? I feel old. Growing up, we didn’t see much in the way of import Genesis titles, but from the ones we did Read More …
Night Trap is on Kickstarter?
This probably shouldn’t come as a massive surprise, but Night Trap now has its own HD Kickstarter. I don’t know how I feel about this. As much as people complain about Kickstarter rapidly becoming a dumpling ground for retro gubbins, Night Trap is an important Read More …
Review A Bad Game Day 2014: Give My Regards To Broadstreet
Is it that time of year already? four months ago we looked at a truly great game, so now it’s time to look at something utterly dreadful. Blimey. My nomination for this year’s review a bad game day is 1985 Spectrum title “Give My Regards Read More …
Unreleased Spectrum Game turns up 24 Years Later. On eBay.
Well this is the stuff that (weird retro gamer’s) dreams are made of: Virgin Games’ supposedly unreleased Judge Dredd Spectrum game has turned up. On eBay. For £3.99 plus postage. It was posted in a thread over at the World Of Spectrum, which contains both the Read More …
Megadrive Hard Drivin’: A Defence
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 …
Why Wasn’t it released Here: Chase HQ II
Maybe its just me, but there’s few gaming things more exciting than an import-only game. From the feeling exclusivity, to the illicitness of owning something you were never supposed to own, nothing quite beats it. It does beg the question though: why weren’t these games Read More …
The Other Outruns
As we’ve already established, I like Outrun. Probably to an unhealthy extent. In fact, not only do I love the original arcade Outruns (in all their many ports and guises) but I even love the weird and widely ignored console-only Outrun games as well. Hurrah! Read More …
Happy Review a Great Game Day!
Hello, If you’ve just arrived here from the RAGGD site, thank you for taking the time to read my review. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, have a look here: http://reviewagreatgameday.com On a slightly self-promotional note, I do chip tunes! You can check Read More …
Review a Great Game Day 2014: Hijack
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 …
Outrun: The Spectrum Ports
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 …
Completions & Game Length
So far this year I have played through just two titles. On the modern front we have Batman Arkham Origins, while on the more classic side of things we have SNES PilotWings. (as an aside, this post has been in my drafts for a couple Read More …
Christmas Games
With the family packed off an the turkey completely devoured, now’s the time to generally start getting stuck into the Christmas games. Hurrah! No no, not games set at Christmas (although there are some that were definitely worth a mention,) this is about games received Read More …
Youtube: The Copyright Rules are Creaking.
So there are lots of people who are angry with Google’s new policy of screening all affiliate Youtube channels for content violations. This is because a lot of “lets play” folk are suddenly being hit with reviews and take downs. There are a lot of Read More …
Licensed Games: Are They Any Good?
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 …
Context is Everything
So today I have two pieces of music for you. The first is the background music for “Ice Cap Zone” from Sonic 3 on the Megadrive:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxlqTpZ-24[/youtube] The second is an unreleased track called ‘Hard Times,’ written by obscure 80s New Wave act ‘The Jetzons’: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvnsriLZvL0[/youtube] Read More …