Streets of Rage was without a shadow of a doubt the best scrolling beat em up available on 16-bit when it came out. I can still remember the first glimpse I caught of its sequel (on Bad Influence! no less) back in 1992 and I haven’t stopped looking at it since. Streets of Rage 2 […]
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Let’s not kid ourselves, After Burner is our guilty pleasure, strapped into the seat at the arcades, feverishly flinging the joystick about not knowing what the hell was going on, just trying to hang on for dear life! Good times. I wasn’t a big fan of the NES version of After Burner but loaded
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There’s an appropriate term for Decap Attack and that term is “In your face!”. This side-scrolling platformer makes no qualms about what it is and there’s a lot to like. Our protagonist, the mummified Chuck D Head (you’ll see how “clever” this is later) needs to defeat the evil Max D. Cap (sorry) who
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What on earth is American Football all about? They have four downs to do a what? Where are the ups if there are downs? What the hell do all those circles and crosses mean? These are all questions I had when I started playing John Madden Football and lo and behold, I think I’ve got
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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?
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