Atari A to Z: Shooting Arcade
Merry Christmas! And what better way to celebrate the festive season than with some fairground-style shooting action? DataSoft’s Shooting Arcade from 1982 is not an especially complex game, but it has...
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Warriors Wednesday: When You Get Around Like I Do, You Pick Up a Thing or Two
Sakon Shima has been something of a fixture in the Samurai Warriors series since the second installment. Typically depicted as a cunning strategist and a powerful warrior in his own right, the real...
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The MoeGamer Awards 2018: The Evergreen Award
The MoeGamer Awards are a series of “alternative” awards that I’ve devised in collaboration with the community as an excuse to celebrate the games, experiences and fanbases that have left a particular...
View ArticleAtari ST A to Z: Ninja Mission
You may recall a little while back that we saw the Atari 8-bit version of Mastertronic’s Ninja. Well, here’s the ST version! It’s basically the same game at its core, though it runs a little faster and...
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The MoeGamer Awards 2018: The Shutterbug Award
The MoeGamer Awards are a series of “alternative” awards that I’ve devised in collaboration with the community as an excuse to celebrate the games, experiences and fanbases that have left a particular...
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New Game Plus: Between the Kimonos
Miku Hinasaki’s excellent adventure continues as we crawl through Chapter 2 of Project Zero in an attempt to fill out our Ghost List further. The ghosts we have to capture this time around are some of...
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The MoeGamer Awards 2018: The Old Flame Award
The MoeGamer Awards are a series of “alternative” awards that I’ve devised in collaboration with the community as an excuse to celebrate the games, experiences and fanbases that have left a particular...
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Around the Network
Merry Christmas! And a preemptive Happy New Year! We’re into the final days of 2018 as I type this, so I hope you are all wrapping the year up in suitably festive fashion. We’re almost at the end of...
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Sunday Driving: It Keeps Happening
Oh, Flagman. Why do you taunt me so? Why does beating Clarissa in a straight-up race through the easiest courses in the game seem to be such a challenge? Who knows. And apparently after today’s...
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The MoeGamer Awards 2018: Game of the Year 2018
The MoeGamer Awards are a series of “alternative” awards that I’ve devised in collaboration with the community as an excuse to celebrate the games, experiences and fanbases that have left a particular...
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The MoeGamer Podcast: Episode X (Starring Woody)
Somewhere in a dusty old attic sat a dirty, forgotten cassette tape, chronicling the experiences of both me and my good friend Woody, someone I grew up with and someone who had a defining influence on...
View ArticleAtari A to Z: Track & Field
“Multi-discipline athletics” is a subgenre of sports gaming that seems to have mostly fallen by the wayside in recent years. In the ’80s, however, it was all the rage — and games such as Konami’s Track...
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Planning for 2019
Happy new year, everyone! I hope you all had a suitably tolerable New Year’s Eve. I spent most of mine editing and preparing videos, but to be honest, this is the sort of thing I’d rather do these days...
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Warriors Wednesday: The Mail Must Get Through
Warriors Orochi is definitely getting easier the further I go through it. Today’s mission is done and dusted in under 20 minutes — including the obligatory “upgrade and fusion” time before we actually...
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Waifu Wednesday: The Hundred Honeys Project Clearly Needs a New Venue
Good grief, it’s getting crowded in there… wherever I decide to take them. It’s actually got to such a stage now that it’s seemingly impossible to get everyone in shot, so you’ll just have to take my...
View ArticleAtari ST A to Z: Operation Thunderbolt
It wasn’t unusual to see lightgun shooters adapted to the 16-bit computers of the late ’80s and early ’90s. However, you didn’t tend to see a lot in the way of lightgun peripherals. You did, however,...
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Atelier Arland: Introduction and History
Atelier is one of the more long-running, prolific series in the canon of Japanese gaming. First launching in 1997, the franchise has seen 19 mainline releases since its inception (with a 20th on the...
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New Game Plus: Eat Paralysey Camera Death
No more fleeing children! That doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods in our Nightmare mode playthrough of the first Project Zero on PlayStation 2, however. There are still plenty of hostile ghosts just...
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NES Essentials: Mighty Bomb Jack
I’ve always enjoyed games that subvert your expectations in one way or another — be it narratively, mechanically or both. And Tecmo’s Mighty Bomb Jack from 1987 is nothing if not charmingly fast and...
View ArticleAtari A to Z Flashback: Asteroids
Asteroids is a longstanding classic with good reason: it made a solid impact on the early video games industry, and it has influenced a great many subsequent games over the years ever since. There’s a...
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