Sonic fan games typically set the bar pretty high for themselves. Before Sonic 4 was the Sonic 4 we all know and acknowledge as existing today, plenty of fans tried to fill the gap, touting their game as the next title in the original trilogy. It wasn’t until more recent years that we’ve seen fan […]
How much fun can you have with a bunch of players and a single NES Zapper? If Super Russian Roulette is anything to go by, it looks like quite a bit. This new NES game uses the classic lightgun peripheral in a simulated game of life and death with a cowboy, who happens to be an […]
If there’s any retro gaming community that’s completely devoted to their cause, it’s the Resident Evil fan base. From the preservation of unreleased titles to fan-made restorations of long lost content, the collective community have put forward some incredible offerings to retro gamers. The latest arrival is an all new episodic spin-off to Resident Evil […]
If you’re a fan of really cool and slightly forgotten SNES platform heroes, you’ll probably be interested to know that the latest volume of the Plok comic has made it to print. Plok Volume 3: Cave is a 64-page collection of strips 50 – 76 from the Plok webcomic, an ongoing series from the original […]
In late 2014 Sir Clive Sinclair of ZX Spectrum fame returned to the gaming industry with the aim of reviving the famous British computer. Taking to IndieGoGo, Sinclair and his team managed to smash their fundraising target and release a portable version of the computer with countless games pre-installed. Fast forward to today, the ZX […]
Remember last year’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega, the plug-and-play Speccy with 1,000 built-in games? It’s back, and this time it’s gone handheld! The ZX Spectrum Vega Plus is a new piece of hardware which will allow players to take their favourite 8-bit computer games on the move. Like its predecessor, the ZX Spectrum Vega Plus will come […]
In 1996 Ocean of America were developing an all new fighting game for both the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive. Lobo was based upon the DC comic series of the same name, however, for whatever reason the game was unfortunately canned. While the Sega Mega Drive version of the game has since become available […]
We all have fond memories of blasting those defenseless flappers in Duck Hunt on the Nintendo NES, but how does the game fare in a more modern environment? At this year’s Global Game Jam one fan of the 1984 light-gun classic decided to adapt the game for play in virtual reality using the Oculus Rift.
It seems crazy to love an interface adaptor, doesn’t it? Call them what you want – Supergun, MAK or anything else – all they do is connect your JAMMA arcade boards to controls, power, video and audio. At the time of writing, my first JAMMA board is actually in the post, so I haven’t even used […]
Do you remember Descent? It was a series of popular (and somewhat disorienting) shoot-’em-ups allowing for full freedom of movement, or six degrees of freedom as the developers like to term it. The original creators are now back with a new game called Overload, which is currently up on Kickstarter. It’s another game with similar […]