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 […]
Kickstarter: Pixel Bison
Hot on the heels of the well received issue 1 (reviewed by yours truly here), as well as pre-orders now being live for the second issue (here!), creator and editor Andrew McMaster has now launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund the third issue. Though the first and second issues have been self-funded – partly as a proof-of-concept to […]
Review: Pixel Bison Issue 1
Though for the last decade or so I’ve slowly moved away from reading physical magazines, books and comics – mostly due to the fact that the media in question is […]
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 […]
Alien Day: Game Over Man!
Last year was Alien’s 40th anniversary – and I wrote quite a long piece looking at the first movie and what it meant to me. For Alien Day 2020 this […]
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 […]
Review: Biolab Wars (Switch)
Out Now – Price £1.79/$1.99 – Developed by: 2ndBoss – Published by: Forever Entertainment Nintendo’s Switch has, perhaps unexpectedly, proven to be a wonderful console for an enormous variety of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 19 – Legendary
Version Played: Xbox 360 Current CEX Price: £2 I’ve always had quite a substantial interest in Greek mythology, which was sparked – somewhat narcissistically – by the realisation that my […]
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 […]
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 […]
