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 […]
Super Metroid is often praised for its lonely and atmospheric feel which is communicated through an incredible soundtrack by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano. Even today the game’s audio holds up rather well and further proves how powerful the Super Nintendo‘s soundchip really was. Paying tribute to the composers, fans of the series have made […]
Originally announced back in 2013, The Legends of Owlia has been in development for quite some time, but the long wait is now proving its worth. Gradual Games have just released a new trailer for their upcoming Nintendo NES homebrew adventure and it sure is showing promise. Heavily drawing inspiration from The Legend of Zelda, […]