As we all know, the 3DS was not Nintendo’s first venture into 3D gaming. The fabled Virtual Boy was Nintendo’s earlier tried and tested system, which while having many merits, failed commercially. As of today though Nintendo’s handheld has successfully brought 3D entertainment back to the gaming world. For retro gamers though, one question remains […]
When you compare the amount of role playing games released in Japan to what English speaking audiences received, there’s a saddening number untranslated adventures that have gone a miss. While fan translation groups are working hard to make amends, there’s only so much they can do – their efforts, however, don’t go amiss! The latest […]
In 1991 video gamers found themselves cast onto the crime-flooded walkways of a once peaceful city, a location three ex-police officers set out to reclaim from the syndicate. Armed with nothing but their bare knuckles, Axel, Adam and Blaze changed the console gaming landscape forever…
Back in the earliest days of handheld video gaming, people wanted to make sure that their systems were well protected, and many different consoles had special cases offered to them. Everything from the original Game Boy to the Atari Lynx […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the days before international communication became cheap and convenient, it was easy to miss out on what was going on elsewhere. You’d be aware of import games thanks to magazines, but it wasn’t so easy to find out anything else. Thus, it came as a huge surprise to me when I got online and […]
I can’t get used to having a 1 button stick on the Amiga. I know that there are a few games that allow 2-button pads to be used but many (e.g. Turrican) rely on hitting the keyboard for various functions. Is there anything similar to Joy2key which would allow me to assign them to buttons […]