Remember Pepsiman, the cola-based 3D videogame hero? Of course you don’t, as he never left Japan. Here’s what you missed… Big corporations throwing their brands into the gaming space has happened for decades with varying degrees of success. McDonald’s did it with titles like Treasure Land Adventure on the SegaRead More →
It’s the year 20XX and Mega Man is back! Continuing from its predecessor Mega Man, Japanese video game company Capcom released Mega Man 2, the second game in the series, with no real expectation (the first game had not been a commercial hit by Capcom standards.) But in doing soRead More →
It’s a stunning platformer, but what really makes Bonze Adventure stand out among other games of the era? If there’s one complaint you could make of the 2D platformer’s golden era, it’s that too often the games resigned themselves to the same settings and tropes. This would’ve been okay forRead More →
We are living at a very strange time. You would see things that you would never ever have expected to happen like companies making decisions which doesn’t suit their philosophy for whatever reason. Sega, the company which is known for its 4 major consoles and the one who allows fanRead More →
It seems like nowadays, any game can get a remake. In the last few years, we’ve had bangers like Streets of Rage 4 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We’ve also had stinkers like Contra: Rogue Corps, proving that classic IPs don’t always guarantee a great game. One title I didn’tRead More →
There’s nothing better than having all your favourite retro series of games being accessible, neatly in one place. On 26th January, Sega’s own Wonder Boy series received this exact treatment for the Nintendo Switch. Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection has six titles available to play on the Switch with multiple consoleRead More →
Panda Punch is a simple 2D puzzle platformer with a stylish retro aesthetic. You play as Zeep, a red panda who loses an arm amidst an alien attack. It’s not all bad news. Your father just so happens to be a skilled blacksmith and patches you up with a shinyRead More →
Powerslave Exhumed: Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Series X/S, and PlayStation 4 and 5 | Developer: Nightdive Studios, Lobotomy Software | Publisher: Throwback Entertainment | Release Date: 10th February 2022 Exhumed (or Powerslave in North America) was released on the PlayStation in 1996 to a positive reception thanks toRead 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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