The question of what makes a good game character remains as elusive creation as pinning down the winning aspects of them thereafter. Some characters are winners because they simply look the part and fit, however distinctively, to the world around them. Off the top of my head I could beRead More →
Sony’s 1996 PlayStation Expo proved to a wider audience to see that big games were coming in the console’s second year. 1996 had already been a great gaming year by the time winter had heaved itself over the horizon and marched onwards with a sackful of Christmas incomings. It hadRead More →
Get to know the team: Bhav the Hylian, writer at Gaming Retro, talks Nintendo, Tetris, and Zelda with John Bowe. Nintendo fans are a particular type, even as their fandom has grown and spilled into each new generation of followers. Being an old-time Sega crusty I have feelings towards NintendoRead More →
John Bowe decides to ask editor Christian Cawley why he still loves those old video games like Turrican. A couple of years ago I sat down with my brother to play a round of Pro Evo on his PlayStation 4. A simple enough task; we’d been playing Pro Evo togetherRead More →
We consider Street Fighter Alpha vs. King of Fighters in a new competition: fashion! Match-ups and smack-downs. We love them and the tensions between them. Liverpool vs Man. United, The Stones vs The Beatles, Rocky Balboa vs a training montage. Pretty intense stuff, but nothing on the Street Fighter AlphaRead More →
Art is so important in video games. See if you agree with this PlayStation top 5 of art direction examples… Style stands out. Sometimes embarrassingly so. See your teenage years. But get it right and you have aesthetic, design and sophistication. See no album cover, ever. Video games have itRead More →
Sega Model 2 arcade games were well regarded, but how did they survive conversion to home consoles? For every action, an equal and opposite reaction. It might be true, perhaps, and it would certainly be true of Sega’s prickly attempts to port their arcade machines over to the Saturn. Oh,Read More →
Issued almost two decades ago, the Nintendo Wii console remains one of the most groundbreaking gaming hardware releases ever. John Bowe remembers it well… Do you remember when the Nintendo Wii came out? It was released worldwide over the winter of 2006/2007, and Nintendo’s Wii marked a return for aRead More →
Recalling Snatcher, the memorable Mega CD point-and-click advenure from 1994, itself an update of the earlier MSX 2 title. A point-and-click adventure. Of all the genres bleating at the margins, I always found this one to be at the furthest reaches of my understanding. Just pointing and clicking and thenRead More →
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