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 … Read more
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
Let’s not beat around the bush (pardon the pun), I’m angry, borderline pissed off even. Why? Streets of Rage 3 is why! Two years after the legendary Streets of Rage 2 graced our television sets, Sega finally released the sequel and it ain’t pretty. Where does my anger stem from? The disbelief that they haven’t … Read more
RoboCop and Terminator games have varying degrees of success to say the least – but The Terminator (excellent but too short); Terminator CD (too damn hard) and RoboCop 3 (get out of my house, get out of my house now) all sold well. Virgin are clever people and their penchant for quality is obvious, so … Read more
The NES was short on tennis sims, that’s an understatement. Super Tennis was an obvious launch title for the SNES, although there’s not much super about it. The presentation looks pretty good and the development team clearly want you to know they’ve been perfecting the panoramic zoom in, zoom out technique. It’s colourful and Nintendo … Read more