Retro by Matt S. It’s been a while since I did a retro reflections piece, but I’ve been playing Super Pinball Action quite a lot in recent weeks, so I thought I would write a little thing about it. Super Pinball Action was an arcade game that came to us…
Read MoreReview by Matt S One of my goals, somewhere down the track if I ever find the time to do it, is to design and build my own pinball table. I’ve got this great idea for a Hatsune Miku-themed one, and while a pinball table is a complex thing to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Aircraft dogfight simulators are a bit of a fun treat to me. Because dogfights take place in a full 360 degree arena (the sky) and at such speed, the intensity of skill required in accurately accounting for the speed and line of flight of enemy combatants…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Whether or not you care for it, Treasure’s most notable shoot ‘em up, Ikaruga, is heralded as a transcendent force in the genre. Its development began as one man’s labour of love and its mechanics went on to inspire a decade of more puzzle-oriented interpretations of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The digital pinball space is surprisingly competitive, given how niche pinball is these days. Zen Studios and its brilliant original creations via Pinball FX 3 and Farsight Studios with its physics-perfect recreation of classic tables in The Pinball Arcade absolutely dominate the genre, and there’s not…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Baseball games seem incredibly few and far between these days. During the 1990s we were blessed with multiple takes on the sport. Series such as Hardball, Bases Loaded, Baseball Stars and All-Star Baseball only scratch the surface of the amount of baseball games available, both simulation…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. This is going to be one of the shortest reviews I ever write, because there is so little to this game. But then again it’s going to set you back $Aus1.50 (or equivalent in other parts of the world), and as the saying goes, you get…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Well, here’s something I didn’t expect; a roguelike that actually got me excited to play a roguelike. With a ridiculously high percentage of indie developers deciding that randomised levels are a clever way of padding out the amount of “content” in a game, and “roguelike” being…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Do you remember SEGA Soccer Slam from back in 2002? What a game that was. Taking the sport of football (or soccer, or whatever you call it in your part of the world), it was an all-arcade, no-rules, 3-on-3 sports game that was about the big…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. One was an inventor known for designing the alternating-current system used predominately in the world today. The other wrote short stories and novels, and created the mythical monster, Cthulhu. So of course society needs to know who would win in a battle to the death between…
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