Sometimes – most of the time, really – a publisher will get a licence and do something obvious with it. Terminator? Shooty-shooty blam blam. Bruce Lee? Beat-’em-up. Crazy Frog? Terrible game, no matter what genre. But then there are those weird outliers – the Weetabix shoot-’em-ups, the 7-Up platformers, and the Batman maze game. Yes indeed, for whatever […]
As amazing as the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16 are, the most standard models available sadly come lacking a direct RGB out signal. While both are capable of providing pixel perfect visuals, the PC Engine was limited to RF out whilst the US equivalent came with just the red/yellow/white composite ports. To remedy this, a cheap […]
You may know where every whistle is in Super Mario Bros 3, and you may be able to beat the majority of the gameplay blindfolded, but that’s all about to change. The difficulty of Nintendo’s 1988 classic has been sent into overdrive with the all new Kaizo Mario Bros 3 ROM hack – a challenge […]
With Rare just weeks away from re-releasing a compilation of classics on the Xbox One, many of us have been wondering if the official control pad will be able to handle it. With the likes of Conker’s Bad Fur Day and Banjo Kazooie set for the soon to be released Rare Replay, fans of the […]
If there’s any type of retro gamer that has to have a PC Engine, the shoot-’em-up fanatic is that type. The system is well-known for its brilliant blasters, from Hudson’s Star Soldier series to Namco’s Galaga ’88, and once the CD system is factored in you can get even more in. One of the earliest […]
With Shenmue 3 recently being announced at E3, a cool 14 years after its predecessor, it felt like the perfect time to dust off the Sega Dreamcast and replay the first entry in a series that struck a chord with so many gamers back in the day. Just how big of a chord it struck […]
The Thief series has been lurking in the shadows since 1998 when it debuted to huge success on the PC. It was the thieves knees of stealth ‘n’ steal skulk aroundom. After its decline which consisted of two more sequels, the imaginatively titled ‘Thief’ was announced in 2009. Some how five years passed by and […]
The early 1990s was an interesting time frame for video games in the home. While we still had the 8-bit consoles like the NES running strong, the newer 16-bit consoles like the Super NES and Sega Genesis were starting to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arcade ninja games are ace. While that’s actually not a statement we can generalise (thanks, Mirai Ninja), it definitely applies to Irem’s Ninja Spirit – and equally to the PC Engine conversion, which is definitely a thing of beauty. It’s not tremendously different to other ninja titles of the time, in that it focuses a […]