These days, you can’t shake a Wiimote without hitting a multiplayer mini-game collection, but when Bishi Bashi Special introduced its inspired lunacy to a European audience it really did make you gawp and grin in equal measure. Suddenly you were replacing severed lips on sumo wrestlers, differentiating between aliens and girls in hot-tubs and helping […]
Over the past few years, we have covered a variety of stories about video games being played on devices that were never intended to play video games. From everything from pianos to ATM machines, from e-Readers to calculators, it seems […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Up for auction on ebay UK is this very interesting collection of rare Sinclair prototypes which were given to the seller’s father in an office clear out by Sir Clive himself. These prototypes are all non-working design-stage models of the ZX80, ZX81 and Spectrum plus some models of unreleased computers. These prototypes shed some light […]
In this new game the player takes part in the fictitious tv game show "Who becomes Amiga guru?". There he has to prove his knowledge about Amiga, Morph OS and AROS. He gets help by different lifelines: If the player manages to achieve a score of 1,000,000 then he deserves the prestigious (?) title "Amiga […]
There are two cars that I’d love to own. One is a Ferrari Testarossa convertible from Out Run (which I’m reliably told, doesn’t actually exist) the other is the new model Volkswagen Beetle that was first released in 1997. When I first saw the new look Beetle it just looked like an amazingly fun car […]
Good evening everyone out there… Remember us? As many of our loyal readers and followers are quite aware, there has been more than a small lack of updates here at Retro Game Network over the past few months, and we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ask anyone what the PC Engine’s best arcade conversion was and they will always reply ‘R-Type’ with a smug look on their faces. There’s no denying that Irem’s port is an astonishing piece of work, but it’s easy to forget that initially the game was split across two separate HuCards, meaning you had to spend […]
Year Released: 2001 Original Price: £40 Buy It Now For: £15+ Associated magazines: None Why The Pokémon Mini was great: Nintendo’s miniature console was the obvious answer to similar successful devices like Tamagotchi, but was draped in presentation that was typical of Nintendo. It’s small library of games means it’s relatively easy to collect for […]
My second game is released! Smurf Rescue! A platform game for your Amiga! You play as Smurfette and your mission is to save all the other Smurfs. Yep, this is my own version of the game and has nothing to do with Smurf Rescue on other systems. The game uses graphics from Lollypop and most […]