The original PlayStation was released in 1994 and changed the gaming landscape forever. The console had a phenomenal impact on the video games industry, and there’s a reason the brand is still going strong to this day. So many blockbuster IPs had humble beginnings on Sony’s grey box. With suchRead More →
If you ask people want kind of games they enjoy with your mates, they will almost certainly respond with games like Mario Party, WarioWare series, etc. This is understandable since they are very popular party games. But to those who say “Bishi Bashi,” you might get a few head scratches,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 →
These days, Usborne coding books are popular, but this is an area of publishing that was first explored back in the 1980s… As you probably know, the 1980s were amazing. While we didn’t have supercomputers in our hands, we had teletext, powered by a BBC Micro. Eventually, 8-bit computers wereRead 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 →
Nowadays, many people prefer to play simulation racing games as they give a more real feel to it like you are facing on the tracks. There are even real-world competitions for it like Gran Turismo in which you can even build on to start your racing career. Of course, itRead More →
In the deluge of PSAs about the Nintendo eShop evicting the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS, something important is being overlooked. The Nintendo 3DS has no business being dumped. Games were still being released on the flexible handheld even after the closure was announced. As a lightweight and hackable alternativeRead More →
It mattered not what you had heard before, or however much you liked the music in Streets of Rage, if you bought a Saturn you had never heard anything like the soundtrack to Panzer Dragoon. And if you bought a PlayStation (more likely), then you were almost sure to have taken a copy of WipEout with you. That’s what my brother did and I have a story about confronting the music in that game.Read More →
Mortal Kombat II looks amazing even now, but it isn’t all about the fighting… The nature of video game backgrounds and staging, the use of colour or a flamboyant piece of parallax scrolling, these considerations were all over the minds of the pixel presentation brigades of back-then. I think aboutRead More →
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