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 […]
There was a small part of my childhood where my mom and dad had tried to get me into other hobbies that didn’t involve video games or computers. I can remember getting all kinds of gifts, that ranged from telescopes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just like other retro video game consoles of the era, the Intellivision offers a lot in the world of homebrew development, with a lot of excellent original video game titles coming out all the time. As we hit the middle […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…