It’s amazing to look at Mercenary now and think how immersive it was. With little more than wireframe objects, some text and slabs of colour, you could really get into the narrative that you were stranded on the alien planet Targ and trying to find a way off it. Of course, part of what helped […]
After a hugely successful move to the mighty Doncaster Dome, we’re proud to announce that the Video Game Market is back for 2017. As the biggest and unrivalled retro gaming sales fair in the UK, this is yet another pixel-perfect day filled with bargains and rarities you won’t want to miss.
The soundtrack for SNATCHER, Hideo Kojima’s cult-classic adventure game, is coming to vinyl later this year from Ship to Shore PhonoCo. Various SNATCHER OSTs have been released before, but this marks the first time the SEGA CD version soundtrack has been made officially available. This release takes the in-game songs and puts them together with […]
This year’s CES in Las Vegas has thrown up a number of interesting new products from the world’s biggest tech firms. From cars that will become our friends, to submersible drones and laptops with multiple displays the consumer electronics industry hasn’t disappointed. Forget all that lot though. The real story of CES comes from Hyperkin…well, […]
We’ve had our eyes on Knights Of Bytes’ upcoming game Sam’s Journey for a while now, as it’s one of the most intriguing C64 projects in development. The developers have never revealed a release date, and while that situation hasn’t changed, the game is starting to look close to release – the developers have moved from sneak […]
While Sonic and Mario might have skipped past the home computer generation, countless other developers attempted to recreate what made console gaming so alluring in their own way. Their tireless efforts brought around the likes of Zool, The Great Giana Sisters, and Mayhem In Monsterland to name but a few, however, the desire to produce […]
During Spring of 1993 the Far Eastern development studio Micro Cabin brought their impressive home-computer adventure Xak: The Art of Visual Stage to the Super Famicom. Arriving as a polished update to the PC-8801 and PC-9801 original, this 16-bit port wasn’t the first time the game had been given the remake treatment after outings on […]
This article was written by Giovanni Zappavigna, co-owner of Expose Gaming These are the classics, the original Pokémon video games. Without these two titles we’d have none of the Pokémon related games we have today. Pokémon Red and Blue were originally released in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Red & Green, they are role-playing games (RPGs), […]
A brief encounter with his school’s ZX81 at the tender age of 13 instantly sold Nick Bruty on computers. By the time he hit 15, Nick dreamed of being a professional games programmer. Although this dream would go unrealised, sprites the teenager produced for a demo coded by school friend David Quinn did help secure […]
Synaesthesia (n) [sĭn′ĭs-thē′zhə] 1. Sensory overlap whereby it is possible to experience stimuli through different sensations than usually expected, i.e.: the ability to hear colours or see sounds. 2. The core concept behind a cult Dreamcast shooter. 3. A long word that makes you sound smarter than you probably actually are. We’ll be mainly dealing […]