The high street is at low tide. We all know it when we put our online ordering down and actually go into town to pick up some rotisserie poultry before swinging by the skip to dump our last round of purchases on the way out. Perhaps it is the ageRead More →
Once again, Bringus Studios brings us a quirky mod that sees a LeapFrog LeapsterGS Explorer console run RetroArch with Linux. With its proprietary CPU, the LeapFrog LF-2000 (Pollux SoC) ARM9. It competes well in the line-up of affordable emulators and shape and size-wise, clicks our ergonomic buttons. Once flashed withRead More →
is Streets of Rage 2 the antidote to happy weekend cycling? We hope so! Many are the activities between couples and many can be laced with consequences. A gentle afternoon bike ride between lovers along some fenland, for instance. Nothing can go wrong, the sun is ablaze and the moodRead More →
Things come, move along and in the process gain attributes that those involved deem sensible, but which leave those that have left the table befuddled should they return. It is (so-called) progress, I’m told. It is in this regard I recently settled in with one of my brothers for aRead More →
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 →
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