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Table Top Racing World Tour Nitro Edition: Less is More
One of the most commonly cited reasons for enjoying video games is allowing oneself to realise fantasies of various descriptions. Frequently, these fantasies are heroic in nature, casting us into a...
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A Personal Post: Depression and Ambition
Hello, dear reader. I feel like I’m stepping “out of character” a bit for this post, as it’s not the usual sort of thing I’d tend to post here. But I feel like I want… maybe even need to get a few...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy Marathon: The Mystic Key
After last week’s little… mishap, the fifth episode of our Final Fantasy playthrough sees the Warriors of Light taking full advantage of the mysterious Time Magic known as “Load”. From thereon, we...
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The Expression: Amrilato – Konversacio kun SukeraSparo
One of my favourite aspects of being Someone Who Writes About Games is that you occasionally have the opportunity to sit down with the people who created these experiences and pick their brains… or at...
View ArticleAtari A to Z Flashback: Tempest
Dave Theurer, creator of the beloved Missile Command, is back once again with another all-time classic: “tube shooter” Tempest. Tempest featured Atari’s then-new multi-coloured Quadrascan vector...
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Around the Network
It’s been… kind of a tough week, but I won’t talk too much about that here, because there was a post on that very subject a few days back. I’m muddling through as always, with plenty of stuff for you...
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The Zelda Diaries: Part 5 – Indoor Play
We’ve already seen numerous ways in which The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild distinguishes itself from its illustrious predecessors, but one of the more controversial changes for some was how it...
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Custom Order Maid 3D 2: Sex, Sommeliers and Song
It’s time to pay The Empire Club another visit after our initial look at what went down on its first day of business. Today, we meet the other two maids who stayed on after our uncle decided to leave...
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Waifu Wednesday: Rin Takato
Before we leave The Expression: Amrilato behind, I wanted to show a particular bit of appreciation for its protagonist Rin. Rin is the player’s eyes and ears over the course of the narrative, and as...
View ArticleAtari A to Z: Yahtman
Yahtman is a game that hails from simpler times; a time when a video game about rolling a few dice a few times was enough to keep people occupied for… ooh, a good few minutes, at least. It was also a...
View ArticleAtari ST A to Z: S.T.U.N. Runner
The futuristic racer subgenre tends to mostly be attributed to Nintendo’s F-Zero series these days, but there were a number of other companies experimenting with the formula too. One such company was...
View ArticleWarriors Wednesday: Mystical Ninja
Cao Pi and friends have a tough battle ahead of them today: they’re up against Nene and her ninjutsu! It seems our “hero” is still biding his time before unleashing his inevitable betrayal of Da Ji and...
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Whip! Whip!: Smells Like Taito
I have a major soft spot for single-screen “kill everything” platformers. Every day I mourn that Rod-Land isn’t more readily available to play on modern platforms… and it’s not just because I have a...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy Marathon: Lali-Ho!
In this sixth episode of the Final Fantasy Marathon, we take our legitimately gotten gains (courtesy of the Mystic Key) and take a trip to go and visit the dwarves. Dwarves are another example of an...
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Racer Essentials: S.T.U.N. Runner
After checking out the not-very-good-but-I-still-like-it Atari ST version on Atari A to Z earlier this week, I thought it was worth taking a closer look at the arcade original. It’s an interesting...
View ArticleAtari A to Z Flashback: Atari Soccer
Yes, yes, yes, I know the “A to Z” angle in this series is already questionable and this one following Tempest makes it even more so, but we only just managed to find time to have a two-player match!...
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Around the Network
Evening all! It’s time for another weekly roundup and an update. You may have noticed I haven’t yet kicked off a new Cover Game feature having finished the one on The Expression: Amrilato. This is...
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The Zelda Diaries: Part 6 – A Beast of a Time
Last time, we talked about how Breath of the Wild makes use of its shrines as a short-form, handheld-friendly take on the Zelda series’ dungeoneering. There’s another major part of the game that...
View ArticleAtari A to Z: Zone Ranger
We’ve made it to Z again, folks! And today’s a real stonker of a game that I used to really love playing back in the day. And still do today, in fact. Zone Ranger was released in 1984 by Activision,...
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Custom Order Maid 3D 2: The Reluctant Idol and the Photoshoot
It’s Tuesday! That doesn’t mean anything in and of itself, other than the fact that I’ve arbitrarily decided it’s time to pay the Empire Club of Custom Order Maid 3D 2 another visit. And that has...
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