If you want to know why I’m a quiz show fiend, Blockbusters could easily take as much blame as anything else. It’d come on after CITV had finished, drawing me in with brightly coloured hexagons and a jaunty theme tune, and keeping me entertained with vocabulary-based questions and the infinitely affable Bob Holness. These […]
Since the first arrival of news on the unreleased Super Nintendo CD collaboration with Sony, we’ve closely watched the hidden past between the two companies unfold. With more than enough to be talking about, the last thing we ever expected to be reporting on was the SNES CD’s boot ROM landing at our headquarters.
We’ve been charting the progress of Retro Video Game Systems’ new cartridge-based console for a little while now, and it’s been a bit of a bumpy ride. Originally announced as the Retro VGS, the console hit IndieGoGo back in September of 2015, with the makers promising “a great new video game system built on the […]
The upcoming (and delayed) release of a Conan board game funded through Kickstarter encouraged me to find alternative ways of passing time in Robert E. Howard’s fantasy worlds. After reading through the collected Conan works for a second time, I delved into my gaming room and dug up two floppy discs containing “Conan: The Cimmerian”, […]
Fergus McGovern, a games industry veteran who co-founded Probe Software and HotGen, has passed away suddenly at the age of 50 following a transatlantic flight. McGovern was just a teenager when he co-founded Probe Software with Vakis Paraskeva in 1984, and over the following decade he became known to gamers through his unusual appearances in […]
Dear reader, this is a story of happiness and more happiness and a little bit of confusion spread over a few hundred words. All stories have a start, which comes at the beginning – except this one, which begins before the start. Come to think of it, though accurate that opening is too difficult to […]