Why oh why did Accolade do this? Well, I can think of several reasons but one of them definitely isn’t “to redefine the scrolling beat em up genre”. Fully five years since the coin-op first launched we have the Mega Drive version and is most certainly was not worth the wait. At its best (namely … Read more
What is it about Ninjas? From the Teenage Mutant Turtle variety to the Kawasaki kind, the very word itself conjures up images of something cool, fast and dangerous. So it was inevitable that video game developers would seize upon the public fascination with the covert assassins of feudal Japan and spew forth a glut of … Read more
Film licenses aren’t rare, in fact they’re one of the most popular genres going. Good games that are based on films are most definitely rare – so it pleases me to say that Moonwalker on the Mega Drive fits into this category, just. Michael Jackson and some promo shots from the film are … Read more
As Dylan touched on in his Aero Blasters review, one thing the Mega Drive wasn’t short on was side-scrolling space-themed shoot ‘em ups, or ‘shooters’ if you prefer (But never, ever ‘SHMUPS’. The internet has a lot to answer for….). Luckily for us, a lot of them were also really, really good. But … Read more
Lotus Turbo Challenge, Mega Drive version. I feel like this review should have been a celebration of British engineering rather than a ruing of a misused license. The MD isn’t short on racers so Lotus needed to be something special. This is a direct port of the much-loved Amiga and Atari ST title Lotus Turbo … Read more