If you owned a Super Nintendo in the 90’s you probably read Super Play magazine. Running for 47 issues as well as a one off Super Play Gold special, the magazine built up a strong following. With it’s distinctive art-style by Wil Overton and it’s love of imports, Japanese culture and more, Super Play stood […]
We see a lot of retro books being launched via Kickstarter these days, don’t we? And a lot of them are, well, a bit ‘same old-same old’. Occasionally though, one pops onto our reading radar that we just have to get involved with. One such book is The Masters of Pixel Art Volume 2, published […]
Hot on the heels of the announcement of a Sonic Mania Collector’s Edition for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, Barry and George share their excitement and opinions on the set in a new SEGA News Bits. What’s included? What’s not? Will fans in Europe be seeing it? These questions and more are discussed! The elephant in the room […]
Not too long ago, gog.com released the Genesis versions of Disney’s Aladdin, The Jungle Book, and The Lion King (more info about the releases can be found here). This was a very welcome surprise, and I encourage anyone to check these games out (especially Aladdin). These releases had me thinking about some of the other […]
If you were a computer gamer at the end of the Eighties, you might well have fond memories of the adventure game Midwinter. The game was a groundbreaking achievement, offering first-person survival gameplay in a fully free-roaming environment – the kind of thing that is commonplace now, but was nearly unthinkable to young Amiga and […]
We’re going to be completely honest – we’d never heard of the band Seagulls prior to today. However, we’re glad that we have. The indie rockers have done something a little bit different for the release of their latest album, Great Pine. Sure, you can buy it on vinyl or download it, but why take […]
If you haven’t already seen the news, Nintendo has teamed up with Apple to release an endless runner for mobile devices in the near future. While this new release might lack the true spirit of Nintendo, one retro gamer has decided to adapt the freemium style gameplay and bring it back to the Nintendo 64.
SEGA continues enticing us with the release of Sonic Mania by announcing a collector’s edition with a statue base of Sonic standing atop a Genesis (With an actual power switch that will yell SEGA!! at you,) a Genesis cartridge cast with a golden ring as well as the download code on a metal card. Priced […]
UPDATED (9/14/2016) Pre-orders are now available through GameStop. GameStop [PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC] SEGA continues enticing us with the release of Sonic Mania by announcing a collector’s edition with a statue base of Sonic standing atop a Genesis (With an actual power switch that will yell SEGA!! at you,) a Genesis cartridge cast with […]
With Warcraft riding high in the estimations of PC gamers during the mid-Nineties, Blizzard made an attempt to bring the game away from its real-time strategy roots with Warcraft Adventures: Lord Of The Clans, a point-and-click adventure. However, after a long and troubled development, the game was cancelled in 1998 and left completely dormant – […]