Have you experienced the Genesis Power Team? In case you missed it over the weekend, the awesome video above did the rounds on blogs and social media. The video features a young Tyler Esposito and his dad, doing a promotional video for the Sega Genesis to convince distant family members to upgrade from their Nintendo […]
Two decades ago this week the Mega Drive was treated to the second part of Sonic The Hedgehog’s third appearance. With Sonic 3 bolted into the cartridge connector of Sonic & Knuckles, gamers could finally sample everything the title had to offer. Despite its greatness, Sonic 3 & Knuckles is the only title Sega are […]
You’ve all seen those stunning custom made handheld consoles from portable Atari 2600s to Nintendo GameCubes – but have you ever considered building one yourself? Needless to say the very thought of starting from scratch on such a project is daunting, but this may now become a thing of the past.
If you were an early Mega Drive owner, Sega’s superb sequel to its arcade hit Shinobi was the game you used to convince your friends to upgrade. While it lacked the fast pace of its predecessor, its superb level design, inventive bosses and superb aesthetics more than made up for it. Here we speak to […]
You cannot have a website devoted to retro video games, and not be able to give some love to the classic “Rockman” series. While Capcom may have been a little lackluster as of late, fans of “Mega Man” certainly are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the good old days we had the joy of Taito’s Bubble Bobble and its eventual successor, Rainbow Islands. There have been many similar games to the 1986 arcade smash over the years, Rodlands and Snow Bros to name a couple. But it took over a decade later for us to receive Irem’s completely unnoticed […]
Following on from the amazing Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium Kickstarter campaign, Sam Dyer of Bitmap Books is back again with a pictorial ode to Commodore’s seminal Amiga range of computers. If the Commodore 64 book is anything to go by (it is an amazing work of art) then this should be stunning. Stretch goals […]
Apart from his recent appearance in Super Smash Bros, Mega Man has had an awfully quiet and disappointing few years. With Capcom doing very little to celebrate their flagship blue-bomber, even the original creator has parted ways with the company to ensure his legacy lives on. Having said that though, Mega Man is making a […]
The PS Vita is quickly becoming the platform of choice for indie developers – I certainly can’t recall another mainstream system being so well supported by small developers with modest backing. The Vita hardware itself is probably a main reason; it is a powerful system and – so I’m told – a fairly painless machine […]
With Scotland recently populating all the news channels with heated political discussions, we thought it was about time to shed some light on the greatest wee video game characters from up North! Believe it or not there’s more than just the Highland Lemmings up there, so anyone even THINKING of using the phrase ‘Och aye the […]