short;Play: Tee Off
If you’re unfamiliar with various takes on sports games over the years, you might not think that “arcade-style” is a descriptor one could readily associate with golf titles. But there have been...
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Waifu Wednesday: Ayesha Altugle
Since we’re moving on to Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk later this week, it is, of course, time to appreciate its wonderful protagonist. The Dusk trilogy of games in the Atelier series has a...
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Atari ST A to Z: One Step Beyond
Whenever someone mentions the Atari ST to you, doubtless the first thing you think of is the delicious, relatively low-calorie cheesy potato snack known as Quavers. What do you mean, no? Well, that...
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Rod Land: A Personal Story
As I type this, one of my longstanding gaming prayers has just been answered: Jaleco’s Rod Land, one of my favourite games of all time, has just got an Arcade Archives release on Switch and PlayStation...
View ArticleEvercade A to Z: Galaxian
Do you like to shoot, but also to think? Then you should give Namco’s Galaxian a shot (no pun intended) — it’s a game where attempting to go in all guns blazing will quickly end in failure. The Famicom...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: RealSports Football
Yes, yes, yes, it’s RealSports time again here on Atari A to Z Flashback, and this time around it’s another one I’ve been dreading: the 5200 incarnation of RealSports Football. I was actually quite...
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Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk – Chromatic Shift
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > While in many respects the Arland games had brought the Atelier series back to its roots, they also very much had their own...
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Good evening! I hope you’ve all had a pleasant weekend. It’s been pretty relaxed around here — I got a few videos done, but for the most part it’s been pretty chilled out. I have some significant life...
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Combat Crazy: The Genesis of Bizarre Creations
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! Contents | Next > The late Bizarre Creations is, it’s fair to say, a developer that a lot of people have very fond memories of. And for a variety of...
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Atari A to Z: Valgus 2
Valgus 2 (or possibly “Valgus Squared”, thinking about it) for Atari 8-bit is an interesting and creative take on Tetris that, for once, doesn’t just knock off someone else’s game. While superficially...
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Malibu Bikini Volleyball: Beach Body Ready
Dear old Atari. They captured lightning in a bottle in the early days of video games with the 2600, then struggled to recreate that sort of success ever again. It certainly wasn’t through lack of...
View Articleshort;Play: Rise of the Dragon
Adventure games — particularly point-and-click affairs from the ’90s — are a genre I’ve loved for a long time. And one of my all-time favourites from back in the day is Rise of the Dragon, a futuristic...
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Waifu Wednesday: Marion Quinn
Anyone who has ever worked an office job will have doubtless come into contact with the particular archetype that Marion Quinn from the Atelier Dusk trilogy represents. Perpetually overworked,...
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Atari ST A to Z: Paperboy
Porting an arcade game to home computers often wasn’t an immediate process back in the days of the 8- and 16-bit microcomputers. In fact, sometimes it took a good few years! Such was the case with...
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Checkered Flag: Where the Driver’s Gender Becomes Important
Fun fact: I have the manual for the original Atari Lynx version of Checkered Flag framed in my toilet. For a certain period during the Lynx’s lifetime, Atari eschewed booklet-style manuals in favour of...
View ArticleEvercade A to Z: Side Pocket
I am bad at pool. Real pool, that is. But also video game pool. Although I am marginally less bad at video game pool than I am at real pool. Data East’s Side Pocket, seen here as part of the Data East...
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Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk – Alchemy in a Fading World
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk is, as we’ve already established, something of a step in a different direction for the...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: RealSports Soccer
In real life, I despise soccer, or “football” as we call it over here. But there have been a number of soccer games over the years that I’ve rather enjoyed — and RealSports Soccer for the Atari 2600 is...
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Good evening everyone! I have some exciting news that you may not know if you didn’t see on Twitter: I’m now the site editor of Rice Digital, which you can find at https://ricedigital.co.uk. This is an...
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The Killing Game Show: The Only Way is Up
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Previous | Contents | Next > A couple of years after his first commercial video game Combat Crazy had failed to set the sales charts alight — despite...
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