The Neo Geo CD was SNK’s attempt to make arcade perfect gaming more affordable to the masses. Although pocket-priced, the console’s ports of AES and MVS classics such as Metal Slug and King of Fighters 98 came with a slight downside – longer loading times. One positive to the system though was its small selection […]
If you loved Koji Igarashi’s entries in the Castlevania series, you’re in for a treat as his newest game has been a literal overnight success on Kickstarter. Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night hasn’t just passed its funding goal of $500,000, but smashed through all of its stretch goals up to and including the $1,250,000 tier […]
Fire up your Saturn consoles. The Point of View Sonic Xtreme prototype is ready to go. By this point, if you’ve been hanging around the Sonic Scene for a fair bit of time, you know that unreleased games and prototypes are somewhat of a big deal. From Sonic 1 pre-alpha images, MegaDrive rom dumps of […]
Recently Play Blackpool took place in the Norbreck Castle on the Blackpool Coast. This is one of the top events in the Retro Gaming calendar, and this year didn’t disappoint. As well as the Classic Game Championship, there was a large set of retro games to play as well as some new retro style games, […]
On the surface, Taito Power Goal looks a pretty unremarkable football game. Historically, that’s certainly true. The game went largely unnoticed in the arcades of the mid-Nineties, with its digitised sprites thoroughly overshadowed by the flashy polygonal goodness of Virtua Striker, and its lone console conversion on the Saturn was just as unremarkable. The fact […]
Now here’s an idea. A range of 80s micro computers in Lego form. Sound good? Well it could be reality if enough people vote for them on the Lego Ideas site. This particular range by user ‘Fbsarts’ has been joined by my personal favourite 80s micro, the ZX Spectrum. A little, teeny weeny Lego Speccy. […]
Earlier this week, a new image (above) began floating around of the 1990 Tokyo Toy Show build of Sonic The Hedgehog. The image comes by way of the August 1990 issue of Japanese magazine MegaDrive Fan. As with any Sonic 1 prototype finding, a certain buzz flies around of “Is it real or is it […]
Back in the early 80’s my best friend had a ZX Spectrum computer and I really wanted to own one. I would spend hours at his house playing on the Speccy with classics like Jetpac, Manic Miner and the Horace games. It was probably 1983 or ’84 and I pestered my parents for a Spectrum […]