Video by Harvard L. With the newest game from the developer behind (modern) brawler, The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa, due soon on Nintendo Switch (Arrest of a stone Buddha), Harvard has decided to dip into some genre classics for a couple of different Let’s Plays. First up is a true…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. We never really had flip phones in Australia – most of us jumped from the old Nokia bricks to smartphones, with feature phones never really establishing a large audience, much less a segment of the games industry, but over in Japan flip phones and feature phones…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Fighting games tend to age poorly. There’s a lot to the genre, from the need for intricate animation and precise physics, through to the consumer demand for expansive rosters and characterisation. That means it’s a rare fighter indeed that hasn’t been completely superseded a console generation…
Read MoreHardware review by Matt S. One of the consequences of COVID-19, the isolation, and the slowdown in work has been that I’ve acquired a new hobby: handheld retro emulation consoles. There’s a vast community of manufacturers of these things, and while you may have certain perceptions about the quality of…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The Game Boy Color is one of my favourite consoles of all time. Sure it’s primitive by today’s standards, but some of the creativity that was on display as developers worked around the limitations are truly inspired. And it’s very nostalgic for me. It was a…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. It’s the Pokemon “clone” that deserves so much more than what it gets. For whatever reason, Dragon Quest Monsters (or, at times, Dragon Warrior Monsters) is one of Square Enix’s most inconsistent properties, despite being so very good. Perhaps even better than Game Freak’s thing…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. You may have noticed that SEGA has slowly by steadily been increasing the range of its SEGA Ages series on Nintendo Switch – console specific ports of very high quality developed by retro specialists M2. The next one in the series will land on April 30,…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. The last time Nintendo produced a new Game & Watch title was way back in 2002, with the Game Boy Advance’s Game & Watch Gallery 4. Since then there hasn’t been much done with the property: there have been ports of most of the Game…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. It’s hard to shake the impression that the later half of 2020 is going to be a fairly quiet one for big (or at least interesting) game releases. At the moment things are fine – in just the last week we’ve had the likes of Final…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Space Invaders is my game. In fact, were it not for Space Invaders I may have never become so invested in video games as I am today (though the jury’s out on whether that’s a good thing or not). I had played other games before Space…
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