Video Game Review: Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection (Switch)
Few video game characters have a history as confusing and convoluted as Wonder Boy; from games where he’s named in the title, to some in the series where he’s not […]
Comic Book Review: Sonic the Hedgehog – Volume 2: The Fate of Dr. Eggman
With the war won and Dr. Eggman’s forces seemingly scattered and dwindling, Sonic spent the first volume mopping up Badniks with a rotating cast of allies as he journeyed across […]
Comic Book Review: Sonic the Hedgehog – Volume 1: Fallout
After a record breaking run at Archie Comics – who held had the Sonic comic license from 1993 to 2017 – which saw Sonic the Hedgehog becoming the longest running […]
Comic Book Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 30th Anniversary – Deluxe Edition
It’s almost unbelievable that IDW have only been publishing Sonic the Hedgehog comics since 2018, having acquired the license to do so in 2017. Archie Comics had the Sonic comic license […]
News: Lewis Hamilton – Champion F1 Driver and…Retro Gamer?
Gamers have always had to contend with non-gamers asking them why, if they want to play football or golf, why they don’t just do those things in real life instead […]
Video Game Review: Wonder Boy Collection (Switch)
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 […]
News: 90s 3D Platform Title ‘Jim Power’ Receiving Strictly Limited Editions – on New and Retro Formats!
It’s an exciting time to be a retro run-and-gun platform game fan, as cult classic Jim Power: The Lost Dimension is coming to PS4 and Switch, as well as re-releasing […]
News: Wonder Boy Collection Coming to Switch and PS4 on June 3rd
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 […]
Video Game Review: Slipstream (Xbox)
Slipstream is an excellent homage to a bygone era.
News: 16-Bit FPS Zero Tolerance to receive limited physical release on PS4, Switch and Genesis!
Yep, you read that right – the incredibly ambitious Mega Drive/Genesis FPS – which was first released in 1994 – is receiving a limited physical release courtesy of Strictly Limited […]
Video Game News: Wonder Boy Collection – Strictly Limited Physical Edition(Switch/PS4)
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. […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: Book4Games Precision Game Storage Boxes – 2nd Wave
It’s not often that I write about the exact same thing twice in one day, but that’s what we have here. Following my article on Retro Dodo – in which […]
Video Game News: Wonder Boy Collection (Switch/PS4)
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 […]
Console Review: Evercade
Since launching in May 2020, accompanied by a good selection of software, Blaze Entertainment’s cartridge-based, retro handheld console, the Evercade, seems to have been well received by the retro gaming […]
Rare Games: New Articles Now Live!
It’s rare that I have the confidence to do something like this – I find it can quite often come across as shameless, sometimes arrogant, self-promotion – but I’ve done […]
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 […]
MLGG: Pop Culture News, Reviews and Interviews 