Review by Trent P. In recent years there has been something of a trend of indies creating games that look and feel like the most retro of retro handheld games – the old Game Boy, monochrome titles. Clearly, a lot of developers entered the industry with fond memories of playing…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. Whenever I’m in Japan, I like to pick up a couple of classic Game Boy games from Super Potato, or one of the other brilliant retro stores that are over there. This year was no different, and I wanted to briefly muse on the pick of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One can never have too many Bubble Bobble and Snow Bros. clones. The era of the single screen arcade platformer is long over, but every so often something happens to delight fans of this particular niche. Case-in-point: I never knew Zupapa existed. Then it was released…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. It’s been a while since I did a retro reflections piece, but I’ve been playing Super Pinball Action quite a lot in recent weeks, so I thought I would write a little thing about it. Super Pinball Action was an arcade game that came to us…
Read MoreWe’ve got a theme going on this week – all retro, all episode! We kick things off by talking about games that haven’t held up well at all (yes, GoldenEye 007. We go there). We also then talk about the sad demise of Emuparadise as an archive of the classics……
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Hot on the heels of the excellent Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, Capcom has seen fit to provide the world with even more nostalgia by releasing not one, but two Legacy Collections for the Mega Man X series. Not to be confused with the other two…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Imagine how you must have felt to be a Street Fighter fan and purchase Ultra Street Fighter 2: The Final Challenge when it launched last year on Nintendo Switch. In that game package you get a single version of Street Fighter 2, some unnecessary HD sprites,…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. The second Legacy Collection contains Mega Man games 7 to 10. Of course, this is two less games than the first collection. However, the games were released on later hardware and contained more elements than the original six so there is still plenty to do in…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Capcom have, in the past, seemingly ignored the rabid Mega Man fanbase, new releases, becoming stingy with the new games, cancelled others, and a reluctance to showcase the mascot in anything outside of minor nods to the games in other series. Recently though, we have seen…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Of course SEGA Genesis Classics is superb value. You’re talking about a lineup of 50 games here (the full range of games is here), ranging from the brilliance of Sonic (back when Sonic was actually worth playing) through to classic fighting brawler action in Golden Axe,…
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