News for retro home video game consoles
We all love a list, so every Tuesday we’re posting one, on a variety of retro-themed topics! Feel free to share your own favourites down below — and let us know what other lists you’d like to see on future Tuesdays! Continuing on with our look back over the Evercade’s substantial library to date, it’s [...]
Sports games aren’t popular with collectors because everyone thinks they suck. But there are some hidden gems out there to enjoy — and their lack of popularity means you can pick ’em up pretty cheap, too! Let’s explore this unloved genre! I do not like football. I do not like football culture, and there is [...]
There’s a bit of a trend in retro gaming coverage these days, and I’m not sure I like it all that much. I’m not going to point the finger to name and shame people today, but I do want to talk a bit about a general pattern that I feel we should probably try and [...]
Ahh, Pooyan. I game I remember playing quite a bit on my Atari 8-bit thanks to DataSoft’s excellent port — and a game I always felt a bit funny about playing because it had the word “poo” in the title for what, at the time, I felt was no apparent reason. Supposedly the game’s unusual [...]
The discovery of the Kliktopia project, which archives a variety of games produced with all the different generations of Clickteam’s “Click” series, has brought me great delight. If you grew up in the mid to late ’90s and were making use of Windows PCs at the time, chances are you came across Clickteam’s products at [...]
Namco is a company that consistently surprises me. Every time I think I have a pretty good handle on the games they’ve released over the years, I discover a new one that I’d never heard of before — and which ends up becoming something of a new favourite. Such is the case with Phozon, which [...]
When you say “platform game” to someone these days, doubtless they have something quite specific — and probably quite Nintendo-inspired — in mind. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. But if you look back into gaming history, the platform game genre is one that has had a number of interesting variations over the years, [...]
Time is ticking away as I type this — 2022 is on the way. In fact, in some parts of the world, it’s already here! Doubtless many of you are frantically thinking of a new year’s resolution that you can commit to for the first three days of the new year, then conveniently ignore for [...]
It came to my attention while researching our piece on Jaleco’s The Ignition Factor that it’s the subject of a hot (sorry) debate among dedicated enthusiasts of Japanese firefighting video games. That debate is pretty simple: out of the two big names in firefighting games on the Super NES, those being the aforementioned The Ignition [...]
It’s kind of surprising that there aren’t more firefighting games out there. After all, a big appeal element of video games is the ability to put ourselves into dangerous, heroic situations that it would be impractical or undesirable to experience in reality. And a disaster such as a fire is something that we can all [...]