
Video Game Review: Remote Life (Xbox Series X)
Impressively, Next Game Level is a developer comprised of just one man; clearly he’s someone who’s got a real passion for the arcade shooters of yesteryear. His game Remote Life […]
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Impressively, Next Game Level is a developer comprised of just one man; clearly he’s someone who’s got a real passion for the arcade shooters of yesteryear. His game Remote Life […]
It’s not often I do this, but I’m long overdue a bit of a brag. You see, I’m a very proud member of the Retro Dodo team – there’s not […]
The 2014 Pac-Man Museum was an excellent compilation – but it had the misfortune of being launched while the horrendous animated misfire Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures was being broadcast. […]
The first installment in the Cotton series – Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams – came out in Japanese arcades way back in 1991. Part of a subgenre of shoot ’em ups […]
As part of the 2nd anniversary celebration for the Evercade handheld this week, Blaze announced some genuinely exciting news. Bouyed by the success of their original handheld and its home […]
Few video game characters have as confusingly twisted a history as Wonder Boy, whose games either came without numbers (see the second game in the series: Wonder Boy in Monster […]
Anyone who knows me knows how important the Wonder Boy games are to me – and just how much of a part they played in my video game obsession from […]
I can’t pretend that I understand the plot of Galacticon – which seems to have been awkwardly translated into English – but to be brutally honest, it makes absolutely no […]
Slipstream is an excellent homage to a bygone era.
The launch of the Evercade VS was accompanied by four collections of arcade games, which were all well worth picking up. The Technos Arcade 1 collection contained some true classics, […]
There aren’t many video games companies who have left such an indelible mark on the industry at the level that Taito have; Space Invaders alone is a title that, to […]
Few companies have had as big an mpact on video games culture in general than Taito have. Just for Space Invaders alone, their influence on gaming and even pop culture […]
It really is a phenomenal time to be a Wonder Boy fan, isn’t it? No sooner has the Wonder Boy Collection been announced for Switch and PS4, the news of […]
Though ININ are handling a standard physical edition and BlissBrain are publishing a digital version of the Wonder Boy Collection, those compilations are being released with four (admittedly excellent!) games. […]
If, like me, you’re in your 40s and frequented arcades in the 80s, you can’t have failed to notice the various Wonder Boy coin-ops that were released during that golden […]
Just as recently I ranked the Best Castlevania Games for Retro Dodo – and actually had a real blast revisiting the series again, so much so that I’m currently playing […]