Nintendo, that great leviathan which has survived the trends, storms and triumphs of their past. Ever does it appear that they have toiled to generate an unpopular opinion from me, and mostly they have made good on their efforts. I am just going to go ahead and say it, MyRead More →
A successful YouTube retro gaming channel needs a recognisable presenter with a personality to rival the subject. Possibly. The car is the star. That’s what they used to say on Top Gear until Jeremy Clarkson, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum became stars themselves, and then put other stars inside theRead More →
Over 20 years ago, Sega Xbox games made it very easy to choose which console to buy. When Sega announced on January 23rd 2001 that they were pulling out of the hardware market and becoming a third-party developer, they sent skittles of fandom flying, and each to their own theRead More →
Christmas, that all too brief season of light and cheer. The very Emmanuel; snakes be gone, unless you were me playing Fighting Vipers that 1996 Christmas season, which I very was and which should also serve as a convenient crowbar to allow me to pour praise of light and cheerRead More →
During a session of watching a friend play Skyrim some years ago, he remarked that the game was similar to reading a book. A silence then, which continued as I chose not to remark back at him and allowed that silence to fill in the details. I was not impressed.Read More →
Certain brands, a precious few, hold great significance and such is the power of their indulgence in our hearts we know the breadth of their canon by a name. AM 2 would count for me, as would all of those numeral arcade departments from SEGA. Treasure would be another one.Read More →
Is Sega Rally fun because it is short, or short because it is fun? An uncle of mine used to say that the yard is greater than the metre in all regards but length. He wasn’t quite right but I could see where he was coming from and there wasRead More →
Neo Geo. Two strong words, like double scotch. Made by SNK, they were available to purchase but were exotic to find; known but enigmatic. Neo Geo had romance like an old Alpha Romeo. Or old scotch. Timeless. Now you wouldn’t want to own a Neo Geo per se, but youRead More →
Single player games are great, but if we can agree on gaming as no less than interactive media, with multiplayer games stacking on top ad infinitum, then there is a space between the two; a multiplayer that isn’t. A shotgun game, a single player experience wherein a second person mayRead More →
Freedom: we all want it, or at least to go on about it. In life, at work, down the biscuit aisle at your local whatever, even in games. And just like down the biscuit trail, you don’t actually always want infinite options. You just want some ginger nuts. Of courseRead More →
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