Atari A to Z Flashback: Air-Sea Battle
An all-time classic of the Atari 2600’s library is launch title Air-Sea Battle, a simplistic but enjoyable fixed shooter with a variety of different ways to play. Air-Sea Battle is an excellent example...
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Late again! Apologies. But I was up until 11.30pm last night editing the newest episode of The MoeGamer Podcast (coming later today!) so hopefully you’ll forgive me. It was an interesting week last...
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The MoeGamer Podcast: Episode 29 – The Happenings
Greetings, lovelies, and welcome once again to The MoeGamer Podcast, featuring me and my fine friend Chris Caskie of MrGilderPixels. The MoeGamer Podcast is available in several places. You can...
View ArticleAtari A to Z: Fantastic Voyage
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE– Better get used to that sound! It’s Fantastic Voyage, an extremely timely 1982 release from Sirius Software that adapts...
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Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal: The Pairing of Sword and Shield
We live in an age where remakes and reboots are very popular. Exactly how that came to be is anyone’s guess — improving technology leading creators to believe they can better realise the original...
View ArticleWarriors Wednesday: Daddy Dearest – Warriors Orochi #57
Cao Cao, father of Cao Pi and Warriors series fixture, has been conspicuously absent for much of Warriors Orochi. Okay, we’ve sort of seen him a few times when Da Ji has been up to her illusory tricks...
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Waifu Wednesday: Asuka
It would be remiss of me to run a Senran Kagura feature and not give good old Asuka a bit of time in the Waifu Wednesday spotlight, wouldn’t it? Like Ikaruga, Homura, Mirai and Hikage before her, Asuka...
View ArticleAtari ST A to Z: Zynaps
Welcome back to the last letter of the alphabet! We’ve made it around another cycle. This time around, we’re taking a look at Zynaps from Hewson, a company who built a reputation for mechanically and...
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Super Metroid: Grown-Up Nintendo
To my shame, despite having ready access to it — I bought it on the Wii’s Virtual Console storefront, I own a SNES Classic, and now it’s available on the Nintendo Switch’s online service — I had never...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy Marathon: Ruler of the Skies – Final Fantasy I #13
The Warriors of Light are done Down South, so now it’s time to head Oop North. There’s just one problem: how to get there! The northern continent has an alarming lack of places to dock a ship, so...
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Vice: Project Doom – Secret Agent Man
I’d not heard of Aicom’s Vice: Project Doom (aka Gun-Dec in Japan) prior to Nintendo adding it to the Switch’s NES app. And neither, it seems, had a lot of Switch owners, since its addition to the...
View ArticleAtari A to Z Flashback: Aquaventure
One of the most interesting things about retro platforms like the Atari 2600 is that they still play host to tons of undiscovered treasures just waiting to be explored, decades later. Many of these...
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Hello again everyone! It’s the end of another week, and here in the UK the weather has finally switched gears from “blazing hot sunshine” to “torrential downpours”, with no intermediate steps. To be...
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Delving into Kirby’s Adventure – #1
I’ve not been going through the Kirby series chronologically because I thought it might be interesting to dip in and out of it in various places to see how it’s changed over time. Having already taken...
View ArticleAtari A to Z: Gateway to Apshai
Role-playing games have been part of home computing — and indeed mainframe computing — pretty much from the very beginning. The fact that there’s considerable crossover between “nerds who like...
View ArticleWarriors Wednesday: Just a Quickie – Warriors Orochi #58
It’s nice when things go your way for once, isn’t it? In the first instance of that happening for quite some time in this Warriors Orochi playthrough, Cao Pi, Nene and Xiahou Dun all find it remarkably...
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Waifu Wednesday: Haruka
Out of all the members of Senran Kagura’s core cast, Haruka initially seems like the one who has it most together — or, perhaps more accurately, is most at peace with the person she is. Combining a...
View ArticleAtari ST A to Z: Alcatraz
It’s back to “A” again for the Atari ST series, and it’s another technically impressive title from Infogrames. Alcatraz is the sequel to Hostages (or The Embassy Mission as it’s known in some...
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Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal: Within the Depths of Shadow
The very first release in the Senran Kagura series — one we didn’t get here in the West — focused exclusively on the Hanzou girls’ narrative, which we discussed in detail last time. It wasn’t until the...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy Marathon: Proof of Courage – Final Fantasy I #14
There really is no rest for a Warrior of Light, is there? “Go and bring me proof of courage,” says Bahamut, without any sort of indication of what the bloody hell he means. Fortunately, some of this...
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