News 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…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The long-forgotten and neglected Doom 64. The odd sheep in the family. The game that was basically dead on arrival on its initial release, because the Nintendo 64 was doing some fascinating things with the shooter genre even as Doom remained steadfastly traditional. It’s good that…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. It’s been a while since I last did a retro reflections, but I was recently in a nostalgic mood, so I dusted off my DSi to play some of the DSiWare titles that I found so fascinating back in the day. As a side note, it…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Set one-hundred years after the events of Mega Man X6, Zero is awakened by a scientist named Ciel in order to help save a group of reploids from being “retired” by the current tyrant… none other than the once hero, Mega Man X. Running away from…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Nintendo has announced the latest additions that will be coming to the SNES and NES libraries that are available to subscribers to the Nintendo Switch online service. There’s two of each, but this is the weakest update that we’ve seen yet. The two SNES titles that…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Many of us would love to see a new F-Zero. It’s one of those properties that you just have to assume that Nintendo is sitting on for a reason. For his second retro Let’s Play this week, Harvard takes a look at F-Zero, the SNES classic…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Out Run is a true classic of the racing genre. It’s a notoriously difficult genre to create something that lasts, as racing games tend to require complex physics models that can make older ones feel unplayable to people comfortable with newer ones. However, Out Run is…
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