Review by Matt S. A hobby that I have picked up this year has been to import emulation consoles from China. They run on Android or Linux operating systems, have emulators loaded in for all the old consoles, and allow you to play all your favourite old games on the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Fire Emblem got a slow start in the western world. It seems hard to believe given how much weight Nintendo puts on it now, but it wasn’t until the Game Boy Advance that we got our first localised Fire Emblem title. There were all these other…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. On the one hand, the Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection brings three of the greatest examples of the 3D platformer to the Nintendo Switch. Mario 64, alone, is such a monstrously influential, powerful, important game that it will be found in the art galleries of the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Nintendo Switch owners that have subscribed to the online service will get a new bunch of games to enjoy next week, with three new SNES titles and one NES classic to release on September 23. On the SNES side of things, you’ll have Donkey Kong Country…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. For such a massive media property, Sailor Moon has always been a little quiet on the video game front. I’m not even entirely sure why, since anime and video games tend to go together very well. Perhaps it’s something as silly as Sailor Moon being a…
Read MoreBook review by Harvard L.“I have a friend who told me that he couldn’t sleep in the same room as the box Resident Evil came in; he had to move it out of his bedroom every night. Another fan told me he played it around age ten. He lived in…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I never did own a Neo Geo Pocket Color, but on the strength of the two fighting game ports that have just landed on Nintendo Switch: Samurai Shodown! 2 and King Of Fighters R2, I really wish I did, because this humble little handheld showed just…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Ever since I discovered the Analogue Pocket, I have been looking forward to the opportunity to secure one of these devices. A retro machine designed to play old cartridges (and I have dozens of Game Boy games thanks to trips to Japan), the Pocket is a…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. These days, indie developers fall over themselves to implement “roguelike” elements into their games. Indeed, the “roguelike” to indies is what “open world” is to the big publishers – a safe and commercially-proven way of throwing a lot of content at players… and it is…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Arcade Archives have only been around since 2014, but it’s almost difficult to think of a time before they were everywhere on the digital download stores – Hamster has released 108 of the things across PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch in just six years.…
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