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Atari A to Z: Crystal Raider
Crystal Raider from Mastertronic is not a game I’d come across prior to recording this video, but it seems it was rather fondly regarded back in the day — and likewise a lot of people today seem to...
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Atari ST A to Z: Vroom
It may have a ridiculous name, but if you ask any ST enthusiast what the best racing games on the platform are — hell, if you ask them what the best games on the platform are — you will almost...
View ArticleRetro Select: Lands of Lore – The Throne of Chaos
VIRGIN INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS… THE WESTWOOD STUDIOS PRODUCTION OF… LANDS OF LORE, THE THRONE OF CHAOS. Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos from Virgin Interactive Entertainment and Westwood...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Surround
The “snake” game, known over the years as “Blockade”, “Light Cycles” and doubtless various other forms of address, is one with enduring popularity. And indeed, as we’ll see with this launch title for...
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Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey – Dangerous Roads Ahead
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > The overall structure of Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey is rather interesting — because for the...
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Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey – The Second Quest
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > It’s not at all unusual for RPGs these days to contain a significant post-game component: something to spend your time with...
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Atari A to Z: Dark Chambers
It’s a Dandy dungeon out there, for sure it is — and Dark Chambers marks the conclusion to one of the earliest and most notorious legal disputes in gaming. John Palevich’s Dandy begat Ed Logg’s...
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Atari ST A to Z: Wanted
Can you smell the Gun.Smoke? Infogrames certainly can in this vertically scrolling blastathon for Atari ST. Wanted is actually a very competent shoot ’em up that does some interesting things that are a...
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Atari A to Z Extra: Return of the Fungi
Over the course of the last few months, I’ve been part of a rather extraordinary story — my videos inspired the maker of some of my favourite Atari 8-bit games to revisit a series that had lain dormant...
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Atari A to Z: The Eidolon
First-person shooters came about with Wolfenstein 3-D, right? Wrong! Not only did they not come about with Wolfenstein 3-D’s spiritual precursors in the Catacomb series, they date right back to the...
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Atari ST A to Z: X-Out
The games that people consider to be “the best of all time” vary considerably according to what platforms they’ve spent the most time with — and nowhere is that more apparent than in the shoot ’em up...
View ArticleRetro Select: Dungeon Hack
Enjoy D&D games but hate that they have to end eventually — and if you want to play again you end up playing the same old story over and over? Enter Dungeon Hack, the Advanced Dungeons &...
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Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings – Time to...
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > After the sprawling adventure that was Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey, it would have doubtless been...
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Atari A to Z: International Karate
The fighting game genre has been around for a very long time — and unlike many other gaming genres, it’s never really fallen completely out of favour. It has evolved considerably over time, though;...
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Atari ST A to Z: Blood Money
First, there was Menace. Now, Psygnosis presents… a DMA Design game. BLOOD MONEY! Thus ran the intro to Blood Money, spiritual successor to DMA Design’s excellent 16-bit shooter Menace, and a game that...
View ArticleRetro Select: After Burner
After we covered the Atari ST version of After Burner a little while back, a few people reached out to me and told me to take a look at the PC Engine version. So I did. Good Lord, that version leaves...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Tempest
One of the nice things about the Atari Flashback Classics collection is how it includes a bunch of previously unreleased prototypes — some of which are really great. Tempest for Atari 2600 is...
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Atari A to Z: Jumpman Junior
The meaning of “platform game” has changed quite a bit over time; back in the earlier days of home computing, however, it had quite a distinct meaning. And Jumpman Junior from Epyx was pretty much a...
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Atari ST A to Z: Curse of Ra
We’ve reached the end of our second spell (no pun intended) with Epyx’s wonderful Temple of Apshai Trilogy; this time we take on the final part, Curse of Ra, on the Atari ST. Westwood’s 1986 port of...
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Retro Select: Moon Patrol
I love Moon Patrol, but it’s actually been quite a while since I played it seriously — and I’ve never spent that much time with the arcade original. Still, all it took to get me interested in playing...
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