short;Play: Neptunia Shooter
Don’t you love it when an April Fool escalates into something that is actually rather excellent? That’s what happened with Neptunia Shooter, a game that started as a joke by Idea Factory International...
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Waifu Wednesday: Refia
Refia is an interesting character in Final Fantasy canon, because she didn’t exist in the original version of the game she’s from — in fact, none of the protagonists from the 3D remake of Final Fantasy...
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Atari ST A to Z: Quadron
So you reckon you’re a Tetris pro, hmm? Well, how would you manage if required to play two overlapping games of Tetris at the same time? That’s the premise behind public domain release (and game...
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Inertial Drift Sunset Prologue: A Bold New Take on Arcade Racing
I love me a slippery-slidy, drift-centric arcade racer, as you’ll know very well if you followed the extensive Ridge Racer Cover Game feature from a while back, or indeed were kind enough to watch my...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy Marathon: The Power of Fire – Final Fantasy III #7
We’re making good progress in our journey through Final Fantasy III, though it hasn’t been an easy ride for our heroes! No sooner did they think they had successfully taken care of Gutsco the thief,...
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Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy – Special Measures in the Darkness
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > Unlike the previous Atelier games that we’ve explored so far, Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy features two discrete narrative...
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Steam’s Inconsistency is Hurting Visual Novels – How We Can Help
Steam is the largest, most well-established PC gaming platform out there. For many gamers, “PC gaming” and “Steam” are pretty much synonymous. To put it another way, in much the same way that Grandma...
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Atari ST A to Z: Rana Rama
Rana Rama is one of those games that most ST owners probably played at some point, since it was distributed as part of the “Super Pack” bundle of software with new STs in 1988. And from there, the...
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The Brainies: Furry Balls
As we’ve seen a number of times already at this point, Blaze’s Evercade retro gaming platform is home to a wide variety of obscure titles that many people probably haven’t played — and which certainly...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy Marathon: Barrier Shift – Final Fantasy III #8
We’ve almost reached the first big milestone in Final Fantasy III’s main scenario! But before we descend to the “world below” and discover what’s really going on, we have a major challenge standing in...
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Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy – Doing New Game Plus Right
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > Once you beat Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy once, you could quite feasibly leave it behind and feel like you’ve had a good...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: International Soccer
It’s time for another sports game! Hooray, hoorah, hooroo! This time around, we’re looking at International Soccer for Atari 2600, which is one of Mattel’s numerous M Network cartridges. If you’ve not...
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Super Painter: Simpler Times
The platform game genre has been around for many years at this point, and, like most other types of games, it has gradually increased in complexity as time has passed. That hasn’t always been for the...
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Hello friends, and welcome to another week of battling off the Deadly Virus by sitting around at home playing video games. I’m a little late on this again, I know, but I had a busy weekend — Saturday...
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Atari A to Z: Yogi’s Great Escape
Yogi Bear is, it is said, smarter than the average bear. He was certainly smart enough to find himself in several licensed games for a variety of home computer platforms in the early ’90s. Here’s the...
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The Immortal: How To Kill Your Wizard
If you are a glutton for punishment, or just feel that modern video games are a touch on the easy and/or fair side for you, it’s high time you checked out Will Harvey’s classic 1990 title, The...
View Articleshort;Play: Test Drive Unlimited
I latched on to the Test Drive series pretty early in my life, because it allowed child-Pete the opportunity to pretend that he was driving a real car. This is something that child-Pete was very...
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Waifu Wednesday: Whim
Who doesn’t love a good maid? Everyone loves a good maid. And the only thing that can make a good maid even better is if she’s 1) a bit cheeky and 2) a manifestation of spiritual, elemental energy in...
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Nurse Love Addiction: Living in the Here and Nao
We’re going to spend a few articles exploring and dissecting the visual novel Nurse Love Addiction by Kogado Studio. There will, of course, be major spoilers ahead. You might think you know what you’re...
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Atari ST A to Z: Shufflepuck Cafe
Hitting a thing back and forth across a playfield in an attempt to get it past your opponent is a fundamental of gaming — after all, Pong is one of the original video games! It’s interesting to see the...
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