We take a look at one of the most iconic games ever released: Super Mario Bros. Mario is one of the most well-known video game protagonists with an unmatched legacy. The Mario games have existed longer than I have, and as I was a Sega kid, I never tried theRead More →
I find the video game adaptation of pinball to be a fascinating one. While the medium allows for near-limitless creativity, most pinball games are firmly grounded in reality. Dragon’s Fury is a stellar example of what can be done without those restraints. Dragon’s Fury (also known as Devil’s Crush) isRead More →
One of the highlights of growing up as a gamer in the 90s was all the magazines. The console wars were in full swing, and if your allegiance was with Sega, you may be familiar with Sega Force. A new physical Sega Magazine is now available to purchase Sega ForceRead More →
Streets of Rage is one of the most iconic franchises in the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis library. Many players regard Streets of Rage 2 as the series’ pinnacle, but let’s check out where it all began. What is Streets of Rage? If you’ve not played before, Streets of Rage is side-scrollingRead More →
Donkey Kong is one of Nintendo’s most well-known characters. But before he was bounding across levels in Donkey Kong Country, he enjoyed the simple life, throwing barrels at Mario on the NES. I’m a big fan of the superb SNES platformer, and now it’s time to check the series’ humbleRead More →
Here are the best PlayStation horror games to make this halloween suitably spooky, but in a retro gaming way. The original Sony PlayStation was a revolutionary system with a vast library covering almost every genre you can imagine. Halloween is right around the corner at the time of writing, andRead More →
Matteus Beus is developing a new graphic adventure for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. If the name is familiar, you may know him from another title in the works, Crypt of Dracula, a dungeon crawler that will run on genuine Sega hardware. We can’t glean too much from the short gameplayRead More →
Nintendo has just added four new titles to the Virtual Console libraries on the Switch, although many players in the West won’t have heard of all of them. The new titles are for the SNES, Game Boy, and NES, so you only need the base subscription to play them. Here’sRead 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 →
