In the later 90s a whole host of first person shooters began making their way onto home consoles alongside their PC counterparts. As great as this was, there was a real lack of consistency when it came to each game’s control scheme, often leaving gamers struggling to get to grips with the 3D worlds in […]
Long-Lost Shoot-‘Em-Up Wing Force Discovered

Back in the early Nineties, Atlus had grown from a publisher of console games into an ambitious outfit with designs on the arcade market. While the company would spend most of the decade in the coin-op game, its own developments were quickly sidelined in favour of publishing games from external developers, most notably Cave. However, […]
Unreleased Arcade Shmup ‘Wing Force’ Located & MAME ROM Preserved

Atlus are well known for their prolific output in the RPG genre, but their roots spread out into various other areas of gaming history. Believe it or not but the Japanese game developers were gearing up the release of an all new vertical shooter for the arcades known as Wing Force in 1993, however, it’s […]
Pocket Tennis Color

If you want to blame anything, blame Neo Turf Masters – I picked up the Neo Geo Humble Bundle just before Christmas, and returning to the arcade game gave me cravings for the pocket one I also loved. That caused me to bring my entire Neo Geo Pocket collection back to Bournemouth, and now I’m revisiting […]
RAGE (Really Amateur Games Expo) Returns on January 17th, For Real This Time!

RAGE (Really Amateur Games Expo), which was originally going to return last month on December 18th, is going to return for real this time on January 17th! If you don’t know what RAGE is, basically it’s a sort of game jam where you have five days to make the worst but also funniest fan game […]
