Sonic Mania is now older than a month. What was once a pipedream of a brand new Sonic developed by fans has finally happened. David The Lurker, Cinossu, Overlord, Bartman3010 and InstantSonic lend their voices to talk about the Mania and not-so Mania about Sonic’s return to 2D glory before the start of this year’s […]
Archive: September, 2017
King Of 94 Tournament Takes Place This Weekend
If you’re an aficionado of digital ice hockey, you’re probably aware that EA’s NHL 94 is considered by many to be the best hockey game of all time. What you might not be aware of is the fact that there’s a competitive scene for the game – and on Saturday 30 September, at the Downtown […]
Sonic Amateur Games Expo 2017 Trailer
We’re less than a week out! We’ll be playing through some of the SAGE 2017 entries before the show this Friday, September 29th, at 8:00pm Central Time on the SAGE YouTube channel! See you then! The post Sonic Amateur Games Expo 2017 Trailer appeared first on Sonic Retro.
Maximum Power Up Podcast – Episode 55: Sports Games
In this episode Paul and Phil take a look at a few of their favourite sports games.This is a genre that is mainly seen as just a load of yearly updates, however dig a little deeper and there’s a wealth of great games.
Yes, You Can Play as Shadow in Sonic Forces
On November 7th, 2017, Sonic Forces is slated to be released across the gambit in both digital and physical formats. It seems like only yesterday the cryptic CG trailer was premiered in front of fans, and now we are less than two months away from experiencing it first hand. On Tuesday, the official Sonic the […]
vDriveZX review – a Microdrive based SD storage solution for your Spectrum
Sinclair launched the ZX Microdrive in July 1983. True to Sinclair’s philosophy of miniaturisation and low-cost, it promised a cheap, high-speed storage system using miniature tape cartridges. Unfortunately the Microdrive didn’t take off as well as Sinclair hoped, dogged by unreliability and also the high cost of the tape cartridges. The Microdrive (and accompanying ZX […]
Get Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee For Free Right Now
Remember Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee? That game was a mighty fine puzzle-platformer back in the late Nineties, and it’s still a lot of fun today. If you’ve never played it, the game casts you as Abe, a Mudokon slave who learns of a plot to turn himself and the rest of his kind into tasty meat […]