
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s almost unbelievable that IDW have only been publishing Sonic the Hedgehog comicsĀ since 2018, having acquired the license to do so in 2017. Archie Comics had the Sonic comic license […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Slipstream is an excellent homage to a bygone era.
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]