Atari A to Z Flashback: Dominos
Dominos, another early black and white title from Atari’s early days, surprised me by not at all being what I expected. I was anticipating a fairly faithful adaptation of the tabletop game Dominoes —...
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And so another week draws to a close and we all slide inexorably onwards towards our inevitable deaths. We may as well enjoy the intervening days, weeks, months and years then! This month I’ve been...
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Sunday Driving: One Last Push
It’s the penultimate episode of Split/Second! Yes, this time around we do our best to get into a good position to enter the final episode of the season. There’s a championship to win, and I’m damned if...
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SNK Essentials: Ozma Wars
Well now. Here’s one that doesn’t get talked about all that much: one of SNK’s earliest games, and a title believed to be the second ever fixed shoot ’em up, after Taito’s genre-defining classic Space...
View ArticleAtari A to Z: Elektra Glide
Pretty much everyone who plays games can probably name at least one title that they respect, but absolutely can’t abide the thought of playing ever again. For me, one of those games is Elektra Glide,...
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SNK Essentials: Sasuke vs. Commander
Ozma Wars isn’t the only very early SNK title to feature in the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection — we also have an unusual fixed shooter from a year later: Sasuke vs. Commander. Like Ozma Wars before...
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Warriors Wednesday: Not Just a Woman
Having soundly kicked Orochi’s behind into next week with both the Samurai and Wu forces, it’s now the turn of Shu to suffer under my command as we once again take on Crazy Snake Guy. All of the...
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Waifu Wednesday: Shina Ninomiya
One of the more interesting things about Death end re;Quest, as we’ll discuss in more depth when we talk about its story in detail, is its dual-perspective narrative. The “real world” unfolds from the...
View ArticleAtari ST A to Z: Zombi
One of the most interesting things about looking back over really old games is reminding yourself just how long certain companies have been around. Today’s Atari ST game, Zombi, was actually Ubi Soft’s...
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SNK Essentials: Vanguard
As you may have noticed already, early-days pre-Neo Geo SNK is a real treasure trove of classic shoot ’em ups. And few come more classic than Vanguard. First released in 1981, Vanguard was another game...
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New Game Plus: Ghosts Don’t Have Feet
It’s time for our weekly visit to the kingdom of Arland, as our New Game Plus runthrough of Atelier Rorona DX on Nintendo Switch continues! We’re well into the game’s second year now, and all sorts of...
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Death end re;Quest: The Art of Fighting
One of the things Compile Heart’s Galapagos RPG project has been keen to do ever since its inception is experiment with mechanics, particularly when it comes to combat. Death end re;Quest is an...
View ArticleAtari A to Z Flashback: Fire Truck
If, in 1978, you ever entertained any childish fantasies of being a fireman, then Atari had the video game for you! Fire Truck was an unusual spin on the top-down driving game in which you took control...
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Hello there everyone! It’s the end of another week, and Monday is looming. Boo, hiss. But after this week I have two weeks off from the day job, yaaaay! The time off is something of a “staycation”...
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Sunday Driving: Out With a Bang (Finale)
This is it! This is what it’s all been building up towards: the season finale of Split/Second! Despite some occasionally questionable performance, I’ve managed to make it to the final episode on the...
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Special Announcement: The MoeGamer Compendium, Volume 1
Good morning, everyone! Today I wanted to share a very special announcement with you. I made a book! Yes, for those who would like to remove the “always-online” DRM requirement from MoeGamer’s Cover...
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SNK Essentials: Fantasy
In the same year as the excellent Vanguard, SNK’s 6502-based “Rockola” hardware played host to an altogether different kind of game. Fantasy was a rather unusual game. Eschewing the usual spaceships...
View ArticleAtari A to Z: Fire Chief
Here’s one I vividly remember from back in the day… but for which there’s a surprising lack of information about online! Fire Chief was developed by Tim Huntington and released through English...
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Racer Essentials: Split/Second
With my Sunday Driving playthrough of Black Rock Studio’s excellent Split/Second now at an end, it’s time to take a final, summative look back at one of my favourite racers of all time. Split/Second,...
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Warriors Wednesday: One Foxy Lady
The Shu campaign of Warriors Orochi is now well underway as Zhao Yun kicks off his efforts to find his lost master Liu Bei. Well, I say that; I kicked him out of the party in favour of trying out...
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