Enduring endless obstacles Enduro Racer (1987) was not a spectacular game. It wasn’t Hang-On, for starters. Released on the Sega Master System, it wasn’t even a faithful port of its own arcade namesake. But boy, did I love it nonetheless. My first taste of a console was the Sega Master System Mark I, owned by […]
There are certain things in life that nobody questions. Tell someone you like pizza, and you’ll likely get little more than an approving nod. You’ll find that other things invite questions from everyone – so for full disclosure, I do like Marilyn Manson unironically, I know that pro wrestling matches are predetermined, and I still like […]
Wonder Boy on the C64 was originally lambasted upon release for no good reason – particularly by a leading magazine at the time which i won’t mention (but it rhymes with Bbap!) and I’m about to set the record straight for once, dammit. Now I won’t mince words or meat here : Wonder Boy was […]
Don’t worry, your mind isn’t playing tricks on you. If you remember Pokémon arriving closer to the end of the Nineties, you’re not wrong – the translated versions didn’t appear until 1998 and 1999. However, Pokémon Red and Green first hit Japanese shelves on February 27th 1996 in Japan, and as a result the 20th anniversary […]
Just mere weeks into the new year and yet another slice of previously unseen retro gaming history has been served. Fans of the Sega Saturn will be pleased to know that the 3D puzzle game Ferox has finally surfaced, with a playable version of the game leaking online for download.
We’re all saddened to hear of the passing of David Bowie yesterday, at the age of 69. Our thoughts are with his family at this time. Quite apart from his music, David Bowie’s passing has brought to mind the oft-overlooked debut of one of gaming’s most-discussed directors. Way back in 1999, Quantic Dream’s first game […]
If we’re all willing to admit it, there’s at least one Guitar Hero accessory somewhere within our game rooms and a retired rock star in all of us. Having ditched the guitar, it’s time to grab the keyboard and revive our musical careers as Game Boy, Nintendo NES and other computer generated music has just […]
Many of our favourites gaming memories are from several decades ago, however, it’s safe to say that some of the hardware we once enjoyed has a limited shelf life. With this in mind talented gamers have begun creating aftermarket products such as flash cartridges and adaptors to ensure we can still get our fix even […]
In the later 90s a whole host of first person shooters began making their way onto home consoles alongside their PC counterparts. As great as this was, there was a real lack of consistency when it came to each game’s control scheme, often leaving gamers struggling to get to grips with the 3D worlds in […]
Back in the early Nineties, Atlus had grown from a publisher of console games into an ambitious outfit with designs on the arcade market. While the company would spend most of the decade in the coin-op game, its own developments were quickly sidelined in favour of publishing games from external developers, most notably Cave. However, […]