Book Review: Florin’s ZX Spectrum Haul of Games
Much like Paul Davies, the author of Florin’s ZX Spectrum Haul of Games, I grew up in the 80s. Also like Paul Davies, I have limited recollection of ‘important’ experiences […]
Dreamcast 20th Anniversary: Memories
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Dreamcast’s launch in Europe – having launched in Japan in late ’98 and in the US on the 9th of September 1999. Being […]
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 […]
Dreamcast 20th Anniversary – Three Stories
I’m a little late to the party on this one, considering it was the Dreamcast’s 20th birthday yesterday. Many people took the time yesterday to share memories of their favourite […]
Games Of My Life: Jurassic Park – SNES
It’s hard to articulate the effect that Jurassic Park – the film – had on cinema when it arrived in 1993. Though CGI special effects had been utilised in a number of prior films – most notably in The Abyss, with its amazing sentient water ‘creature’ in 1989, then another James Cameron film in 1991: Terminator 2, with what were, […]
Games of My Life: The Lawnmower Man – SNES
I sometimes write about games from my past, with a bit of background on myself and what these games have meant to me at different times in my life. The […]
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 […]
Demon’s Tilt – PC
I have a lot of love for pinball – I covered it quite extensively in my Creature from the Black Lagoon article, which may as well just have been a […]
Mission Impossible (1996)
I’ve yet to see Mission Impossible: Fallout, but I’ve heard so many good things about it that I’ve decided to rewatch the Mission Impossible movies in sequence. The last few […]
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 […]
Games of My Life: Creature from the Black Lagoon (Pinball)
I spent endless hot, summer days in darkness in the early 90s. Darkness lit with colourful neon and ultraviolet light. The soundtrack: worlds being defended, the roars of dinosaurs once more roaming the earth, feuds being settled or contests being won with kicks and punches. The smell of dry ice; the smog-like substance hanging thick in the air, lending everything […]
Games of My Life: Super Mario Bros 2 – NES
In a weird twist of fate, the very first Super Mario Bros game I ever played was series oddity Super Mario Bros 2. Unbeknownst to me at the time – […]
