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 […]
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 […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin: 21 – Mindjack
Version Played: Xbox 360 Current CEX Price: 50p Very early on in Mindjack, there’s a nicely choreographed fight in a cutscene, ending with what feels like a pretty unnecessary neck […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin: 15 – Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
Version Played: Xbox 360 – Current CEX Price: £1 There’s a really fine line to be walked with satire and parody, particularly when you’re aping the very conventions of whatever […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin – 12: Jambo! Safari
Version Played: Wii Current CEX Price: £2 The late 90s/early 00s was a time when arcades still felt like they had new experiences to offer that you couldn’t replicate at home, or at least not to the same effect. Sega was releasing some absolutely wonderful games; though some received home conversions – and ports like Crazy Taxi for Dreamcast went […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin – 3: Stranglehold
Format Played: XBox 360 Current CEX Price: 50p It’s fair to say that, once John Woo left Hong Kong in the early 90s, his movie output struggled to match the quality of his previous films. Though his first US film – the Jean-Claude Van Damme action vehicle Hard Target (in which Van Damme has the most spectacular wet look mullet) […]
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: 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 […]
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 – […]
Games of My Life: Wonder Boy in Monster Land – Sega Master System
I spent the best part of 1989 and 1990 being absolutely obsessed with the second Wonder Boy game, Wonder Boy in Monster Land. I’d played it on one of my […]
