If you were an early Mega Drive owner, Sega’s superb sequel to its arcade hit Shinobi was the game you used to convince your friends to upgrade. While it lacked the fast pace of its predecessor, its superb level design, inventive bosses and superb aesthetics more than made up for it. Here we speak to […]
Author: jrsupermoore All the team at EA Sports did in 1991 for the game of golf was what they accomplished for a host of other sports: introduce a well-rounded title at the onset of the Super Nintendo’s life. While this may not seem like such a tall feat, by … Continue reading
You cannot have a website devoted to retro video games, and not be able to give some love to the classic “Rockman” series. While Capcom may have been a little lackluster as of late, fans of “Mega Man” certainly are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the good old days we had the joy of Taito’s Bubble Bobble and its eventual successor, Rainbow Islands. There have been many similar games to the 1986 arcade smash over the years, Rodlands and Snow Bros to name a couple. But it took over a decade later for us to receive Irem’s completely unnoticed […]
Following on from the amazing Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium Kickstarter campaign, Sam Dyer of Bitmap Books is back again with a pictorial ode to Commodore’s seminal Amiga range of computers. If the Commodore 64 book is anything to go by (it is an amazing work of art) then this should be stunning. Stretch goals […]
Apart from his recent appearance in Super Smash Bros, Mega Man has had an awfully quiet and disappointing few years. With Capcom doing very little to celebrate their flagship blue-bomber, even the original creator has parted ways with the company to ensure his legacy lives on. Having said that though, Mega Man is making a […]