Transformers at 35: The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
The film that ruined a lot of childhoods, The Transformers: The Movie was a massive cultural event in its day, at least for those of us at a certain age […]
Transformers at 35: Transformers – Trading Card Game
My love for gaming in all forms – including board and card games – is well documented elsewhere in my writing and I’ve also written quite a bit about my […]
Transformers at 35: More Than Meets The Eye and Robots In Disguise
The original Transformers animated series recently celebrated its 35th Anniversary – here I take a look at what the franchise means to me, as well as cover two very good […]
Cyber Protocol – Switch
Nintendo Switch – Out Now ($9.99/£8.99) – By Red Deer Games I was born in ’77, so I grew up in the 1980s as cyberpunk was becoming an important, highly-regarded […]
Blazing Chrome
Version Played: Xbox One, via Game Pass (Also available on PS4, Switch and PC) The Contra series was absolutely huge in the 80s and 90s. Across arcade as well as […]
Review: Omen Exitio: Plague – Switch
Out Now (US)/19th September 2019 (EU) – Version Played: Switch ($9.99/£TBC) – Published by: Forever Entertainment In the 80s and early 90s, I read an awful lot of gamebooks. The […]
The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors – Switch
Out now (EU)/Release Date TBC (US), Version Played: Switch (£16.99) I pride myself on having a near-encyclopaedic knowledge of certain eras in gaming; having frequented arcades on such a regular […]
Demolition Crew – Switch
Demolition Crew – Out Now on Nintendo Switch ($2.00/£2.00) – by xirBX Though the developer was aiming to evoke the NES with Demolition Crew, it has a bold and bright […]
TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – 35th Anniversary
Who knew that four anthropomorphic reptiles – named after renaissance artists – with a penchant for ass-kicking would turn out to be such enduring icons? Yet here we are, on […]
Games of My Life: Bank Panic – Master System
It’s been well documented both on my blog and elsewhere on the interwebs – usually on Twitter – that the first console I could ever call my own was the […]
Is this the weirdest use of a license in gaming history?
For pretty much the entire history of gaming, there’s been an appetite for games based on films, books, TV shows and comics. For example – and these are by no […]
Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Zone Massacre – Wii
My current obsession with checking out super-cheap old Wii titles continues with Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Zone Massacre, a Wii game based on the classic, long-running British comic strip Rogue […]
A Birthday Story
So another birthday is drawing to a close. This one was my 42nd. It doesn’t even seem possible. When you’re a kid – even when you’re a teenager – being […]
Transformers: Cybertron Adventures – Wii
I’ve always been a huge fan of Transformers. That’s not to say that I blindly and unquestioningly enjoy everything that carries the name, of course – bar the first one, […]
Alien Syndrome – Wii
I’ve discovered a new pastime: combing through the Wii section of second hand game shops for the cheapest titles I can find – in the hope that I can find hidden gems among the shovelware. I’ve found some games for £1-£2 that have been surprisingly good; excellent, even. Even when they aren’t, there’s usually enough of interest to justify playing […]
Games of My Life: Pac-Man – Arcade/Various
Pac-Man’s 39th birthday was yesterday, so I wanted to get some words out there about the enduring yellow legend. The cultural impact of Pac-Man can’t be overstated. Here was a […]
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