Preview: Shinorubi (Steam Early Access)
Bullet hell shooter Shinorubi launches as an Early Access title on the 20th of January 2022. Thanks to IGM, I’ve been able to try Shinorubi out for myself and can […]
News: Evercade Announces Gremlin Collection 1, Coming March 2022
This was genuinely exciting news to wake up to; the latest Evercade compilation is a collection of games from Gremlin, a sadly defunct publisher. Beginning in 1984 as Gremlin Graphics […]
Review: Interplay Collection 2 (Evercade Cartridge 07)
Though there’s a sense of repetition in the first half dozen or so Evercade cartridges, especially in terms of the companies featured, the game collections mostly featured enough games that […]
Review: Namco Museum Collection 2 (Evercade Cartridge 06)
In my review of the fifth cartridge in the Evercade’s growing library – the Atari Collection 2 – I lamented the fact that the very first compilation released for the […]
Review: Atari Collection 2 (Evercade Cartridge 05)
With 20 Atari titles already represented on the Evercade (thanks to the very first cartridge in the console’s library, Atari Collection 1), it seems a bit odd that Blaze decided […]
Review: Interplay Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 04)
Controversial opinion time – let’s get this out of the way right from the start: Earthworm Jim just isn’t a very good game. Though it was perhaps a victim of […]
Review: Data East Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 03)
When I hear the Data East name, I tend to think of beat ’em ups like Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja (which, for the longest time, I thought was just called […]
Review: Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 (2020)
Namco have been putting together compilations of their various arcade and console titles for a very long time; ever since the very first Namco Museum title arrived on the PlayStation […]
Opinion: The Influence and Appeal of Retro Games
Note: This is an amended and expanded version of an article I wrote for the first issue of print magazine, Pixel Bison. There was a time back in the 90s […]
Toki: Retrocollector Edition – Switch
It’s my birthday today – and one of the gifts I received was the excellent remake of Toki for Nintendo Switch. It had been a long time since I played […]
Review: The Adventures of Elena Temple – Definitive Edition
Version Played: Xbox One – Developed and Published by: GrimTalin SRL I reviewed the original edition of The Adventures of Elena Temple on Switch last year. I found it to […]
My First Console: A Christmas Story
Though my parents had owned consoles – mostly Pong clone machines and, in the late 80s, an Atari 2600 – I’d never had one that I could truly call my […]
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 […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin: 26 – Stuntman: Ignition
Version Played: Xbox 360Current CEX Price: £2.50 I never got around to playing the original Stuntman on PS2, though I’d always been intrigued by its premise. So I was extremely […]
Well, that escalated quickly…
The digital ink has barely dried on my very first Nintendo Life review – and yet, here’s another one! Thank you to everyone who was kind about my Beast Quest review, especially those of you who wanted me to get a chance to review a decent game next. Your wish came true! So without any further ado – here’s my […]
Sensible World of Soccer – Android
Do you remember Sensible World of Soccer? Surely gamers of a certain age – definitely UK-based gamers of a certain age – all remember it. Even if we didn’t own […]
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