Reviews – Mega Drive

  The Mega Drive isn’t a stranger to side-scrolling shoot-em ups.  Um, even space themed shoot-em ups (R-Type springs to mind).  So why should anyone bother giving Aero Blasters a shot?  Bad puns aside, cos it’s bloody entertaining!  The arcade game was well received and deserved to be ported to the home consoles.  The plot? […]

  Now this is what I’m talking about. For too long, the Mega Drive had been thought of as a gateway to play Sega’s arcade machines at home. Talk of Sega’s “mascot”? There wasn’t one. Until now. Sonic the Hedgehog isn’t your standard platformer, it’s a work of art. A humble spiky blue hedgehog out

  Boomshakalaka!!!  Not in your vocabulary?  It bloody well will be after two hours of almost sporting perfection from…Acclaim?  Am I kidding? I am not!  Basketball sims have been done before, badly, but NBA Jam actually takes its lead from the very mediocre Arch Rivals.  But what was good about Arch Rivals has transferred itself

  So here we have it, the official game of Barcelona 1992.  Sponsored by Coca Cola (ahem – royalties please) and bang on time, a decent punt this game is, but you just feel there could have been so much more. Whadda we need for an Olympic sim?  Events I hear you cry!  And lots

    Axel, Adam and Blaze are out to clean the streets, the Streets of Rage!  That, in a nutshell, is the premise of this side scrolling beat-em-up that is unique in that it isn’t a port of a Sega arcade game.  It was made for home entertainment and definitely benefits from it although we’d