Soulcalibur is an odd thing. I spent an hour or so in the 90s being mesmerised playing it in a Dreamcast display cabinet somewhere and I’d not heard anything about it since. That is until one of our team mentioned that this version of the game has a whopping 98/100 Metacritic score. Now, I’ve never […]
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In the first of what we hope to be a long running series, we invite a local expert to discuss a hot retro gaming topic. This week, Craig Turner of the amazing Revival Retro Events joins me for a quick chat about the highly divisive topic that is flash devices, namely for retro consoles and
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Things you want to be when you grow up: astronaut; movie star; game blogger (kidding? – Ed); Formula One star; etc… I can’t speak for etcetera, but there’s definitely a way you can fulfill your Niki Lauda dreams on the 16-bit and that’s Super Monaco GP on the Mega Drive. Originally released at the arcades,
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Needless to say, we’re spoilt for football (soccer) games these days. Ever since FIFA popped its head out of the sand in 1993 the genre has gone from strength to strength. My experiences with the Master System have been much detailed in this blog, Games Freezer and very soon, our podcast. But when I think
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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
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