Hot on the heels of revisiting lightgun chaos in our recent look back at Time Crisis, another late-’90s classic has clawed its way onto modern hardware. Only this time, instead of terrorists and pedal-dodging, it’s velociraptors in a lab coat apocalypse. Capcom has released Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2Read More →
Most Raspberry Pi retro setups lean heavily towards arcade action. Load it up, pick a ROM, mash a button, repeat. That’s fine — but it also means one entire strand of classic gaming tends to get ignored. Point-and-click adventures were, of course, about patience, curiosity, humour, and sometimes just sittingRead More →
If you’re a regular reader, you might recall some previous reports on the development of a new version of Lemmings for the Commodore 64. When I first looked at Jörg Karwath’s work on Lemmings Reloaded, it was clear that this wasn’t just another fan project. It was a mission toRead More →
Japan loves its transforming robots, and I’ve been a fan since I saw my first Transformer in 1984. There’s something deeply satisfying about the ability to switch forms on the fly — adapting to the situation, trading brute force for speed, or vice versa — and it’s a design ideaRead More →
For all the talk of point-and-click adventures being a relic of the past, the genre has really seen a resurgence in the past few years. Thanks largely to the success of ScummVM, vast swathes of classic adventures remain playable today — and just as importantly, influential. You can see thatRead More →
Film studio CREATORVC, best known for TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming and the In Search of Darkness documentary series, has revealed it is developing Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story, a feature-length documentary focused on the LucasArts and Humongous Entertainment games built using the SCUMM engine. Written and directedRead More →
Bomberman has always been one of those series that quietly defined multiplayer in the 16-bit era. Long before online lobbies, battle passes, or even analogue sticks, it was Bomberman that taught us the joy of local chaos: four players, one screen, and friendships tested by a single misplaced bomb. SoRead More →
If you told my 25-year-old self that Doom would one day show up on a little cartridge you slot into a handheld, I would have laughed myself hoarse. But here we are: Blaze Entertainment and Bethesda have dropped a teaser confirming that Doom is officially heading to Evercade hardware laterRead More →
On any given Friday morning in the late 1990s, you’d have found me collecting my wages from a local pub and then heading to the seafront to the local arcades to spend £20 on Time Crisis. (Preferably less, but you know: “just one more turn!”) The game left a bigRead More →
