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Atari A to Z: Quarxon
The Atari Program Exchange label played host to some really interesting, creative games — as well as some useful pieces of software. At least, they were useful pieces of software back in the day; for...
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Atari ST A to Z: John Lowe’s Ultimate Darts
Darts! One game, one hundred yen. I’ll try it once. Except it wasn’t one hundred yen, it was twenty quid, and it offered quite a variety of different darts-related experiences for your money. Darts...
View ArticleRetro Select: Boom Blox
When we first heard that Steven Spielberg was making a game, I think the last thing anyone expected was a physics puzzler for Wii. And once that had been revealed, I think the last thing anyone...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Yars’ Revenge
This is it! The final game in Atari Flashback Classics — and it just happens to be one of the most legendary games for the Atari 2600. It’s Howard Scott Warshaw’s all-time classic Yars’ Revenge! This...
View ArticleRetro Select: Pooyan
Supposedly, “pooyan” is a Japanese word that means “little pigs”, but I am yet to find a more authoritative source for this piece of information online than some random blog that said this was the case...
View ArticleEvercade A to Z: Tanzer
You can dance if you want to, and leave your friends behind. In fact, you’ll have to, since Tanzer is a single-player game — and one of the most exciting games in the Evercade’s launch lineup. Taking...
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Atari A to Z: Trailblazer
Trailblazer is an early game from Gremlin Graphics — and one which still holds up well today. Just as well, really, as it’s actually had a surprising number of rereleases and ports over the years! The...
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Atari ST A to Z: Moon Patrol
Moon Patrol is a great arcade game, and it’s had some excellent ports over the years. The Atari ST one was quite late, but it certainly nails the visuals. The gameplay, however, is another matter;...
View ArticleRetro Select: Front Line
Every genre needs to start somewhere, and in the top-down run-and-gun shooter’s case, it pretty much started with Taito’s Front Line. By modern standards, Front Line might look a bit laughable —...
View ArticleEvercade A to Z: Top Racer
Top Racer (originally known as Top Gear in the west) has a long and proud tradition — and it’s a classic vanishing point racer that still holds up super-well today. When it originally released on...
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Atari A to Z: Up’n Down
Up’n Down is not an arcade game I’m especially familiar with — and I’ve also learned it’s one that people often get confused with Data East’s Bump ‘n Jump, for reasons that are probably obvious. The...
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Atari ST A to Z: Nigel Mansell’s World Championship
When I was a kid, Nigel Mansell occupied a curious position in popular culture. He was, without a doubt, respected for his solid performance in motorsports — but he was also regarded as an enormously...
View ArticleRetro Select: Terra Cresta
I’m pretty excited for the upcoming Sol Cresta, a shoot ’em up developed by PlatinumGames with music by Yuzo Koshiro. So I thought I’d go back and play its spiritual predecessor. Turns out it’s pretty...
View ArticleEvercade A to Z: Double Dragon II – The Revenge
The two Double Dragon games on NES are markedly different from their arcade counterparts — and a great deal of fun in their own right. Double Dragon II: The Revenge plays up the platform game elements...
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Hello! Please read this!
Good day to you, Internet traveller, and thanks for stopping by MoeGamer.net. This is a site about Japanese, Japanese-inspired and retro games that I put together single-handedly during periods when I...
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I’m back, baby
Hello there, everyone! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? There have been some interesting changes in my professional life that mean I’ll likely be posting here a little more from hereon — and with those...
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Idea Factory deserves your respect
I am not a game designer. I have attempted to make games at various points in the past, making use of toolsets ranging from Atari BASIC through STOS: The Game Creator, Klik & Play, The Games...
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The joy and despair of loving things that others don’t care for
If you’ve been reading MoeGamer or any of my other work for any length of time, you’ll know that I’m a strong believer that anyone should be able to enjoy what they want (assuming it’s not outright...
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Should you enjoy gaming as a hobby to a schedule?
Let me tell you a couple of things about myself — the me that exists as of 23:35, July 27, 2023. Firstly, I have a brain that, when presented with a sufficient number of options to freely choose...
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Gaming on a Schedule, Day 1: Rise of the Triad Ludicrous Edition
All right, here we go! It’s Monday, so, according to my experimental schedule, that means it’s time for a “smaller game” of some description. And while it also technically counts as “retro”, Rise of...
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