When you think of SEGA consoles, you think of something from the past… Deceased family members, friends, pets and other created things; we carry our memories and their remembrance with us long after those people, those animals, and those things have passed. The form this takes can vary in sentimentRead More →
John Bowe demonstrates how he managed to avoid the online gaming trend, and how you might, too… The Atari STe was the first home computer to arrive at my family home, via a brother who had chosen the machine over the all-popular Amiga. I think he chose it because itRead More →
It promised much, but unfortunately many a Sega Saturn game failed to materialize, including these potential sequels… In its less than three-year run in the U.K., the less-than-popular Sega Saturn quietly went about amassing quality games across broad genres only for follow-ups to be abandoned or else not considered atRead More →
By about June of 1993, it was estimated that in the U.K. there were already more monthly magazines than people born to read them, video game magazines included. They were a constant thing back then, like someone coming into the house and asking if anyone has taken any messages overRead More →
We often appear to be caught between the desire to add or perhaps, even take away. In the end, most of us settle into just some tinkering and then continue to tinker until you really have to be honest and say, yes, I have been adding. But is it too much, and if it is, at what point does the balance tip?Read More →
The Sega Dreamcast was destined to be a game-changer – just not in the way people expected… Sega, that company which operated within the rarefied commercial airspace of the brilliant, the bonkers and the bust. On a shelf, they would happily sit next to Lancia. They invented new genres butRead More →
In a recent feature list, co-writer and hardcore arcade enthusiast Zahir gave voice to his favourite arcade racers of the nineties. A super scaling list on the whole, and one that started me thinking about my own, and about what arcade racing games meant to me at that time. InRead More →
Going on holiday. A fraught time for me. Despite assurances from all and sundry that it is a good thing to do, I’m not sure that as a grown man I have ever been sold on the idea. Certainly, camping is out. I am already outside for most of theRead More →
Can you tell a game’s date from its character fashion? Fashion and the fashionable. They are passing things if you ever knew them at all. I can’t say that I did, but I have got eyes and they do see. And what they see is that there exists a spiritRead More →
