
Kraut Buster’s Long March: NG:DEV.TEAM’s Metal Slug Tribute Finally Storms the Neo Geo
When this article first appeared in March 2015, it announced a game that was supposed to be in players’ hands by winter. Kraut Buster, a comical run-and-gun…
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When this article first appeared in March 2015, it announced a game that was supposed to be in players’ hands by winter. Kraut Buster, a comical run-and-gun…

In an age where animal mascots were a dime a dozen, Sparkster was worth his weight in gold. How many of his…

It may look rather quaint now, but Pete Sampras Tennis was something of a big deal when it was first released. It…

You have been asking for them for a while, and now they’re finally here. The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and the SNK Neo…

There is a special kind of devotion reserved for commercially failed hardware, and no console has ever inspired more of it, pound for pound, than the…

There’s a lot of love out there for the Soul series, and rightly so – Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast had an…

When Codemasters set up its company in late 1985 it knew it needed a suitable calling card to wow gamers with. The…

By the mid-Nineties, regular athletics games were no longer enough for gamers – or at least, that was Namco’s perspective. Eschewing the…

Some unreleased games are unreleased because they were unfinished, unworkable or quietly awful, and history’s silence is a kindness. Targa is the other kind: a completed, polished, ferociously ambitious Super Nintendo game that was finished in time to miss its moment entirely.

Here’s all the best bits from Sega’s superb Dreamcast conversion. How many do you remember? Leaping lizards… Er Sailfins We love Sega…