Q&A: November 2020
Welcome to the first of what will hopefully become a monthly feature, in which I invite my S-Rank Patrons to submit some questions for me to mull over, then I answer them in a video at the end of the...
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Warriors Orochi 2: Building a Better Warrior
There are an awful lot of Warriors games on the market today. And while many may superficially seem quite similar to one another, delving into each of them reveals their unique qualities. In many...
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Atari A to Z: Preppie!
Certain games — especially from the early days of the medium — really come to define a platform. And today’s Atari 8-bit game is one of those games. Preppie! by Russ Wetmore, published by Adventure...
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Mighty Switch Force: Perilous Policing
WayForward have made some great games over the years — and not just in their flagship Shantae series. One of their most interesting and enjoyable series of games comes in the form of Mighty Switch...
View Articleshort;Play: Quantum Theory
What might it look like if the creative minds behind the masterful Project Zero series of ghost-hunting survival horror games made a third-person shooter? A lot like Quantum Theory, as it happens!...
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Waifu Wednesday: Elmerulia Frixell
“It’ll all work out… somehow!” is a phrase that can be applied to a wide variety of RPG protagonists from over the years, but Elmerulia “Lulua” Frixell from Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland makes a...
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Atari ST A to Z: Jupiter Probe
Microdeal offered the Atari ST some solid support in its early days, with the software they published covering a wide variety of genres — and not just games. Probably one of the most “traditional”...
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Top Racer: Definitely-Not-Lotus Turbo Challenge
Racing games used to be very different to how we know them today — primarily due to the limitations of the hardware on which they were running. Instead of unfolding in lovingly rendered, minutely...
View ArticleEvercade A to Z: Tanglewood
The Evercade isn’t just about old games — it’s also about new games developed for old platforms. Tanglewood, one half of the eleventh cartridge in the system’s library, is a great example. Developed in...
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Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland – A Trilogy of Four
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > Up until this point in the Atelier MegaFeature as a whole, we’ve explored the games in release order. They were released in...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: RealSports Baseball
We’re back once again with the RealSports series, and this time we’re looking at RealSports Baseball for the Atari 5200. While the Atari 2600 version of RealSports Baseball really struggled to provide...
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Around the Network
Good evening! I’ve spent most of the day editing a new episode of The MoeGamer Podcast, so you can expect that tomorrow. I’m not doing a full series of The MoeGamer Awards for the whole month this year...
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The MoeGamer Podcast: Episode 45 – One Hell of a Year
Welcome to the obligatory podcast-format end-of-the-year roundup! I’m joined for this exploration of a year we’ll all remember for quite some time by, as always, Chris Caskie of CCaskieArt. The...
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Atari A to Z: Questron
When I was a kid, I was kind of scared of trying out RPGs because they looked too complicated. Returning to them today, however, makes me feel like I would probably have been fine! Here’s Questron from...
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Super Double Dragon: An Unfinished Symphony
Despite being the franchise that pretty much defined a whole genre, the Double Dragon series has had its share of troubles over the years. One particularly troubled installment was 1992’s fourth game...
View Articleshort;Play: TimeSplitters 2
You asked for it, and I… was going to do it anyway, but here it is! TimeSplitters 2, one of the finest console first-person shooters ever created — and indeed one of my favourite games of all time....
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Waifu Wednesday: Takanashi Kiara
Since their debut in September of 2020, the girls of Hololive English have well and truly settled into their roles as virtual entertainers, bringing joy to hundreds of thousands of people every day....
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Atari ST A to Z: Karting Grand Prix
Sometimes, it’s good to play a genuinely awful game just to remind yourself how good we have it most of the time. And sometimes you end up very pleasantly surprised. Sometimes, though, a game is just...
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Quantum Theory: Tower Toppler
The longer I run this site, the more it becomes clear that immediate, embargoed, day-one reviews of video games haven’t been doing a lot of titles justice for a very long time now — right back to the...
View ArticleEvercade A to Z: Super Robin Hood
The Oliver Twins are, it’s fair to say, probably best known for their Dizzy series of arcade adventures on 8- and 16-bit home computers. But they made a bunch of other interesting games, too. Super...
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