Is Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-’Em-Ups the book for your coffee table? Do you remember the time when you played The Simpsons at the arcade? Or the awesomeness of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and beating up Shredder’s soldiers? Or fighting in the streets on Street of RageRead More →
The Wonder Boy Collection is out now for Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation 4. To my knowledge, my only experience of playing and of the Wonder Boy games was on the original arcade back in the 80s/90s. I may have had exposure to the later RPG-esque entires in the series,Read More →
Everyone remembers the first computer game they played. Mine was Galaxy on the Commodore 64. It was 1984 and I really wanted a computer. My school had a BBC Micro; a few people had a ZX Spectrum; my uncle had a VIC 20. But what I wanted was the awesomeRead More →
The Evercade VS is dropping into retro gamers’ homes around the world. But is it any good? Back in May 2021, I, like many others, put my hand in my pocket for a project I believed in: the Evercade VS. By ordering so early, I had the opportunity to orderRead More →
