What do you remember about the Nintendo 64? Ask any gamer who was alive through the ‘90s this question and the answer is likely to be along the… Continue reading
Category: Retro
With today marking 15 years since the Sega Dreamcast launched in North America, we thought it was fitting to dedicate this edition of Gaming Rewind to the year… Continue reading
With hardware sales of 100 million units and an extensive back catalogue of over 1,000 games, Sony’s PlayStation console revolutionised gaming as we know it today. With Nintendo… Continue reading
Fashion is a funny old thing, especially at the moment now that old things are incredibly fashionable. Second hand clothing is now deemed “vintage”, and the resale of… Continue reading
Release Date 24 March, 1999 Platforms Playstation 1, PC Genre Racing Modes Single Player Multiplayer Developer Attention To Detail Publisher Psygnosis To us primitive creatures of the 21st… Continue reading
Release Date 1991 Platforms Mega Drive/Genesis Genre Scrolling Shooter Modes Single Player Developer Masaya Publisher Sega, Dreamworks, NCS Corporation In the golden era of shoot ‘em ups, there… Continue reading
Release Date 16 June, 1994 Platforms Arcade PC SNES Mega Drive Saturn PS1 Genre Rail Shooter Modes Single player Multiplayer Developer Midway, Rage Software Publisher Midway, Acclaim Steve… Continue reading
Introduction These days, the Sega Mega Drive 32X is synonymous with failure in the video gaming industry. Many would argue its legacy – with a universally-panned games library,… Continue reading
The Mortal Kombat series first hit arcades in 1992 and, if the hype coming out of E3 surrounding the Mortal Kombat X announcement is anything to go by,… Continue reading
With the advent of the Playstation 1 and Nintendo 64 came 3-dimensional graphics and a whole new world of possibilities in gaming. Titles like “Spyro” “Banjo-Kazooie” and “Crash… Continue reading
1999 was a good year for RTS fans: Tiberian Sun was released by Westwood Studios as a sequel to the hugely successful Command & Conquer and Ensemble Studios… Continue reading
A retro console with a difference is set to be launched next month. While "clone" systems are nothing new, they’re generally of questionable quality with support limited to… Continue reading
Not only a great movie tie-in, Toy Story is right up there as one of the first games that comes to mind when asked about our favourite platformers…. Continue reading
Honourable mentions go to: Ecco the Dolphin, ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron, Earthworm Jim, Kid Chameleon, Aladdin, Boogerman, James Pond (series), and QuackShot Starring Donald Duck…. Continue reading
The Lion King is another one of those games I owned when I was very young and have very fond memories of. I remember the bright colours, the… Continue reading
The concept of the bonus stage may seem like an antiquated one; modern titles seldom include such distractions. However, back in the days when the name of most… Continue reading
Background E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was a 1982 movie from Steven Spielberg that gained huge success and was the highest grossing movie of its time. The story focuses on… Continue reading
The first homebrew game to be created for Nintendo’s much-maligned Virtual Boy console is to receive a physical release, it has been announced. Puzzle game BLOX was made… Continue reading
Update (May 3): As speculated, the Pluto has been relisted on eBay after failing to sell. Its bidding currently stands at $3,500 with seven days remaining. Original story:… Continue reading
The production of Sega’s Dreamcast console may have been discontinued over 12 years ago, but there may yet be life in the old dog. Homebrew developmental studio Hucast… Continue reading
