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Helltaker: Hell is Sliding Block Puzzles
At the time of writing, a new independently developed game called “Helltaker” is all over social media, with all sorts of people sharing screenshots and fanart. With that in mind, I decided to give it...
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TubeLive: Living the Streamer Dream
There have been a few games released over the course of the last few years that purport to be based around the life of a streamer or YouTuber, and I’ve typically shied away from them. When Hammerfist,...
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Atari A to Z: Pole Position
You don’t just play Pole Position — you FEEL it! Thus ran the back-of-box blurb for the official Atari 8-bit conversion of Namco’s classic “vanishing point” racer — one of the most important,...
View Articleshort;Play: Blake Stone – Aliens of Gold
One of the reasons I wanted to introduce the short;Play series was to celebrate some of my favourites from yesteryear that don’t get talked about all that much. Today we take a look at Blake Stone:...
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Waifu Wednesday: Jessica Philomele
It’s that time of the week again, and there’s no way I could let my coverage of Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis slip by without celebrating Jessica Philomele, arguably the most prominent female...
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Should You Play Phantasy Star Online 2 When Final Fantasy XIV Exists?
Yes, it’s the question someone somewhere has probably asked at some point: with two highly regarded Japanese online RPGs on the go right now… is one “better” than the other? Well, let’s nip that one...
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Atari ST A to Z: Joust
It’s arcade classic time today on Atari ST A to Z, with the game that supposedly popularised the idea of two-player cooperative gameplay. Joust, originally developed by Williams for the arcade in 1982,...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy Marathon: True End – Final Fantasy II #23
This is it! We’re beating Final Fantasy II today! Well, okay, we’ve already done that, technically, but today our gruelling journey through postgame story Soul of Rebirth finally comes to an end! It’s...
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Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis – School of Hard Knocks
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! << First | < Prev. | Next > | Last >> At first glance, Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis might appear to be very mechanically similar to...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Frogs and Flies
Hmm, doesn’t something seem a bit familiar about this Atari 2600 game…? Of course! Frogs and Flies here is the game that Atari ripped off with Frog Pond. Only Frogs and Flies (or Frog Bog as it was...
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Around the Network
Happy weekend everyone! I’ve just finished recording a bunch of videos that were really fun to put together, so please enjoy them when they release over the course of the next couple of weeks. I’ve...
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51 Worldwide Games: The Good Old Days
The concept of “gaming” wasn’t always about immersing yourself in RPGs that last for several hundred hours, or about hurling abuse at random strangers online. No; in the dim and distant past, before...
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Atari A to Z: Qix
I love me some Qix, and it’s a game I developed quite an early fondness for thanks to the Atari 8-bit version I grew up with. There’s an Atari 5200 version that is almost arcade-perfect available, but...
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PC Engine CoreGrafx Mini: First Impressions
I’ve been more excited for the PC Engine CoreGrafx Mini (or PC Engine Mini, or TurboGrafx-16 Mini depending where you get it from) than any of the other “mini” consoles that have appeared over the...
View Articleshort;Play: The Incredible Machine
PC gaming today is, in a lot of cases, “console gaming but prettier and smoother”. There are exceptions, of course, but over the years I feel like we’ve lost a little something. Back in the MS-DOS era,...
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Waifu Wednesday: Anna Lemouri
Once again Waifu Wednesday rolls around, and we’re still not out of awesome female characters from Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis to celebrate! This week we’re taking a look at Anna Lemouri, who...
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Atari ST A to Z: Knicker-Bockers
Now hold on a minute… something’s a little familiar here! Yes indeed; we’ve previously seen Kirk Chaney’s Lock ‘n’ Chase-inspired maze puzzler on the 8-bit Atari A to Z series, but it turns out he also...
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A Warm Welcome to the Evercade
Over the course of the last few years, retro gaming devices of various descriptions have become very popular. Until now, these have tended to fall into one of two categories: emulation boxes that you...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy Marathon: A New Adventure – Final Fantasy III #1
It’s time for a whole new Final Fantasy — this time the third installment in its PSP incarnation, itself based off the Nintendo DS remake by Matrix Software. I was all set to start recording these on...
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Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis – A Learning Experience
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! << First | < Prev. | Next > | Last >> Turn-based, menu-driven RPGs for computer and console — particularly the latter — are, for the most...
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