With the recent reveal of Shenmue II at E3 and the subsequent Kickstarter campaign, it’s no surprise that Sega’s cult classic is once again grabbing the headlines. With the focus back on Ryo Hazuki, film directors Adam Sipione and Randall Lobb decided it was about time to reveal the trailer to their upcoming documentary on […]
N64 fans rejoice – Capcom has shown off some footage of the greatest game never released for the console. Resident Evil Zero, a prequel to the original Resident Evil, was in development for the N64 at the end of the Nineties and intended for release in 2000. Enough of the game was finished that a […]
Sometimes – most of the time, really – a publisher will get a licence and do something obvious with it. Terminator? Shooty-shooty blam blam. Bruce Lee? Beat-’em-up. Crazy Frog? Terrible game, no matter what genre. But then there are those weird outliers – the Weetabix shoot-’em-ups, the 7-Up platformers, and the Batman maze game. Yes indeed, for whatever […]
As amazing as the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16 are, the most standard models available sadly come lacking a direct RGB out signal. While both are capable of providing pixel perfect visuals, the PC Engine was limited to RF out whilst the US equivalent came with just the red/yellow/white composite ports. To remedy this, a cheap […]
You may know where every whistle is in Super Mario Bros 3, and you may be able to beat the majority of the gameplay blindfolded, but that’s all about to change. The difficulty of Nintendo’s 1988 classic has been sent into overdrive with the all new Kaizo Mario Bros 3 ROM hack – a challenge […]
With Rare just weeks away from re-releasing a compilation of classics on the Xbox One, many of us have been wondering if the official control pad will be able to handle it. With the likes of Conker’s Bad Fur Day and Banjo Kazooie set for the soon to be released Rare Replay, fans of the […]
If there’s any type of retro gamer that has to have a PC Engine, the shoot-’em-up fanatic is that type. The system is well-known for its brilliant blasters, from Hudson’s Star Soldier series to Namco’s Galaga ’88, and once the CD system is factored in you can get even more in. One of the earliest […]
With Shenmue 3 recently being announced at E3, a cool 14 years after its predecessor, it felt like the perfect time to dust off the Sega Dreamcast and replay the first entry in a series that struck a chord with so many gamers back in the day. Just how big of a chord it struck […]
The Thief series has been lurking in the shadows since 1998 when it debuted to huge success on the PC. It was the thieves knees of stealth ‘n’ steal skulk aroundom. After its decline which consisted of two more sequels, the imaginatively titled ‘Thief’ was announced in 2009. Some how five years passed by and […]
The early 1990s was an interesting time frame for video games in the home. While we still had the 8-bit consoles like the NES running strong, the newer 16-bit consoles like the Super NES and Sega Genesis were starting to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…