Review: Jaleco Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 15)
The 16-bit era – and the SNES in particular – is my favourite in gaming history. I have enormous fondness not just for the heavy hitters and iconic titles in […]
Happy Mario Day!
Seeing as MAR 10 is Mario Day, I thought I’d take the opportunity to once more cover my experience with the very first Super Mario Bros game I ever played […]
News: Classic Ninja JaJaMaru Famicom/SNES Titles Heading West for the First Time from ININ and Strictly Limited Games!
Though the first titles in the Ninja JaJaMaru series were released in the late 80s – and became among the best-selling Famicom releases in Japan – ININ Games and developers […]
News: Evercade Game of the Month for September 2022: Eyra, The Crow Maiden
The Evercade VS is undoubtedly my favourite console at the moment. It’s an essential purchase for old school gamers – and it also won’t break the bank if you do […]
Video Game Review: Turrican Anthology Vol. II (Switch)
The first Turrican Anthology – as you can see from my review – was a compilation that I enjoyed enormously. Having fond memories of the original Turrican games on the […]
Video Game Review: Turrican Anthology Vol. I (Switch)
I have very fond memories of playing both Turrican and Turrican II on a friend’s Atari ST, way back in the early 90s. A few things that really stuck in […]
News: Turrican Anthology Vol I and Turrican Anthology Vol 2 Now Available for PS4 and Switch
When I think back to the Turrican games – classic 90s run and gun titles that first made an impact on home computers before making their presence felt on numerous […]
A Big Shout-Out to…Me?
Despite writing daily for this very blog, I also find the time to work on articles for other websites and publications. I’ve often shared these when it’s an article I’m […]
Review: Technos Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 10)
Though most Evercade cartridge compilations have enough variety – and quality – in the games they include that there’s almost certainly something for everyone, the Technos Collection 1 is the […]
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 […]
Comic Book Review: Battletoads #2
You can probably guess my enthusiasm levels for catching up with the Titan Battletoads comic – which attempts to fill in the gaps between the trio’s last game, Battletoads Arcade […]
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: 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 Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 02)
Having already reviewed the first cartridge in the Evercade’s growing library, the Atari Collection 1, it’s now the turn of the second compilation: Namco Museum Collection 1. As the cartridge […]
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