Reviews – NES

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES is the nearest you’ll get to being Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and poor old Raphael (I’ll come to that later).  Developed by Konami (under the guise of Ultra Games), TMNT is a platformer with varied parts that on the whole work pretty well.  Our best friend Shredder has stolen […]

  The evil scientist Dr Wily (sure) is threatening the world and must be defeated! Who best to do it?  Step forward Mega Man! And thus, our review of Mega Man on the NES.  Originally an android called Rock (hence the Japanese name Rock Man) created by Dr Light, he’s transformed into Mega Man, a

  I’ve been pretty impressed by the versions of Aladdin I’ve seen on 8/16-bit.  Regardless of the gameplay, the success of any Disney franchise is colourful graphics which is where I thought the NES would fall flat on its face.  But as you can see from the screenshots, Virgin and Nintendo have done a really

  Being subjected to a lot of Acclaim’s doo doo is something I’ve learned to take on the chin, much like the punches the poor souls in Arch Rivals take on a continual basis.  AR (as I will now refer to it as) is a two on two basketball game with the added “feature” being

We’ve had a look at the Master System version (and still can’t bring ourselves to review it) so of course we wanted to get our hands on the NES version.  How did a Sega staple arrive on the NES? Well, in amongst all the fully licensed versions (C64, Atari, Amstrad to name a few), Tengen