Yesterday/today, the internet (or, more specifically, the part of the internet in love with retro videogames) imploded. Nintendo announced what we’d all known was coming: a follow-up to their unbelievably …
*WARNING* There follows an entirely self-indulgent post, where I basically whoop and holler about some old toys you probably won’t be interested in. You’ve been warned. “You dad’s been cleaning …
Have you gone into a videogame store recently? I don’t mean just navigated your way to a web store either. I mean an actual flourescent-lit, sticky carpeted, grouchy-teen filled bricks …
There are moments that mark an epoch in your life as a gaming hobbyist. Experiences that define your tastes and attitudes towards videogames forever. These moments are rare – maybe happening …
It’s uncommonly rare for a game to embed itself in my poor, addled old brain. It’s even rarer for it to do so merely by dint of its sound effects. …
For many developers back in the early years of home gaming, conversions were the bread and butter that kept them in business. In more recent years, conversions from one home …
I can imagine the puzzled frowns already. “Simul… what now”? Simulcra. It’s a fantastic 16-bit action title, that was criminally ignored at the time and is now, inexcusably, almost completely forgotten. …
