Towards the end of the Master System’s life, I used to regularly pop into the local Future Zone and pick up some cheap cartridges. Sometimes they’d be great – Rampart, Robocop Vs Terminator and Wimbledon come to mind – but other times, well… At other times they were The Cyber Shinobi. By this point, I knew […]
Sega has so far released plenty of fine ports of their classic games for the Nintendo 3DS under the 3D Classics label, including a physical collection in Japan called the Sega 3D Fukkoku Archives. And now Famitsu has reported that Sega is going to release another one of those, this time featuring 3D Sonic the […]
Sega has so far released plenty of fine ports of their classic games for the Nintendo 3DS under the 3D Classics label, including a physical collection in Japan called the Sega 3D Fukkoku Archives. And now Famitsu has reported that Sega is going to release another one of those, this time featuring 3D Sonic the […]
I try not to say “it’s like [Game X] meets [Game Y]” too often. It’s a lazy comparison, as many games have far more to offer than that suggests. The same is true of Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad, but I still have to use the comparison because it’s the one I exclaimed the first time […]
Hello everybody and happy Labor Day! For those of you that are looking for something lazy to do on this extended holiday weekend (except for me, night shift hospital staff here), I have a treat for you. Back in 1990, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Imagine this. You plug in your Sega Saturn, grab your Virtua gun, load up your well loved copy of Virtua Cop… and this appears: You almost rage destroy the gun as its a royal ball-ache trying to navigate the time and date setting process using the buttons on your gun and you’re being too lazy […]
While the Nintendo Entertainment System has been discontinued for many years (ending its run in the US in 1995 and in Japan in 2001), it has since had an amazing following for many independent programmers, with many brand new games […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the most infamous unofficial video game releases to date saw the all famous Italian plumber racing through Sonic The Hedgehog’s Green Hill Zone. This unusual mix of games was built from scratch for the Nintendo Famicom under the new name Somari, a title often found on dodgy multi-cartridges hailing from the Far East. […]
When someone thinks about Atari’s less popular offerings of the 5200 SuperSystem and Jaguar, there is one thing that most can agree on: Regardless of which console you select, they had a problem with the controller. The Jaguar’s main problem […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the main criticisms levelled at Atari’s Jaguar system is that the controller is an absolute mess. Waiting in line behind the lack of decent software, unconvincing 64-bit graphics (by the way, it is a true 64-bit system on a technical level) and poorly marketed CD add-on, the controller takes a lot of unwarranted […]