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 […]
Ruminations The original Cannon Fodder was one of the best selling, most successful games to be released for the Amiga, receiving conversions to machines as diverse as the Atari ST, 3DO and Jaguar. To this day it remains my favourite game of all time. So imagine my excitement as a grubby-handed 16 year old when […]
When you want to be kept up to date on the latest Sonic news, it’s pretty likely that you’ll look for it on some Sonic fansite. Not this one obviously, we do a pretty poor job at reporting all the news about the franchise on time. But general video game/entertainment websites, where the normal people get their […]
With the Sonic series getting older, it’s also becoming harder to find copies of prototypes of both released and unreleased games in the series. Aside from old video game companies not having put enough effort into archiving their work, game cartridges and arcade boards don’t last forever and will probably start to decay in a decade or two. Meaning […]
Believe it or not but Sega had originally hoped to throw their bright blue mascot into yet another realm. Calling upon the creator of Puzzle Bobble, Fukio Mitsuji, the Japanese gaming giant began work on SegaSonic Bros. Although failing to see release, a working prototype of the game has recently been discovered.