Polymega has announced its next pair of physical game collections, and if you grew up on late-90s experimentation or quirky NES-era charm, there’s something for you here. Vol. 15 – Body Harvest and Vol. 16 – A Boy and His Blob are the latest additions to the company’s expanding lineRead More →
Somehow — and I genuinely can’t explain this — I completely missed Blood in the 90s. In 1997 I was clearly too busy pushing tiny sprites around strategy maps to notice that an undead cowboy named Caleb was out there delivering a Lovecraftian splatterfest that feels like it was engineeredRead More →
You can also put your foot down with this one on the Nintendo Switch. If you’ve ever wished someone would mash up Sega Rally, Ridge Racer, and those chaotic four-player weekends from the late 90s, 4PGP: Four-Player Grand Prix might be the game you’ve been waiting for. Announced by Tokyo-basedRead More →
Every so often, a game comes along that looks straight out of the late ’90s — the kind of thing you’d swear you once played on a GBA cartridge with a slightly chewed label — yet somehow feels fresh. Avemary Rocket – Captain Patchwork – is exactly that sort ofRead More →
It’s a modern spin on the stone-cold Atari arcade classic, but can Astro Busters bring Asteroids up to date? I’ll be honest: when I first skimmed the description for Astro Busters, I wasn’t convinced. Asteroids is one of those games that’s been “reimagined” so many times that most new takesRead More →
If you ever cracked open a big, glossy game box as a kid — manual smell, floppy disk snap, the whole sensory overload — the new Hyper Sentinel Fusion Kickstarter is basically engineered to hit you right in the nostalgia gland. Andrew and Rob Hewson are back, and they’re goingRead More →
Look, I’ll be honest: as someone who didn’t grow up with a PS1 (beyond briefly poking at the one my sister’s boyfriend owned), the Tomba! series is one of those classic PlayStation blind spots for me. Pink-haired feral child platformer? Evil swine ruining everyone’s day? Apparently this was someone’s childhood,Read More →
Obscure SNK shooter Bermuda Triangle gets a modern reissue in Arcade Archives Originally released by SNK in 1987, Bermuda Triangle is a vertical-scrolling shoot-’em-up with a delightfully mad sci-fi premise. You pilot the time-space battleship ZIG, fight mysterious invaders, and repeatedly get flung through different historical eras — from theRead More →
What if Half-Life was more like DOOM… or more precisely, DOOM 64? Light on story, and high on action? A fresh spin on a classic just dropped: Half-Life: Element 64, a fan-made mod/revival project inspired by the 1998 hit, is now live on Steam — with a demo you canRead More →
