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Review by Matt S. Three absolutely classic console point-and-click adventure games, re-released almost pixel-perfect for the PlayStation 4. If that sounds like a pretty obscure thing to release in the first place, it is, but when that package includes Shadowgate, which is right up there with Zork as the most…

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Retro reflections: Looking back at classic, forgotten, beat-em-ups

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Retro by Matt S. Once upon a time, when arcades were still a big deal, the beat-em-up was a major, major genre. It was popular for the same reason that shooters and the like are popular today; the beat-em-up was visceral in its violence, and it was designed around the…

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Halloween, rediscovering classics, and adapting Lord of the Rings to videogames (Digitally Uploaded 2017, Episode #35)

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Halloween’s getting close now, so naturally there’s a bunch of new horror game releases, and of course we take the opportunity to talk about that in this week’s podcast! We also have a good ol’ chat about Lord of the Rings, and what an awful job the new Middle-earth: Shadow…

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Retro Reflections: This year’s Game Boy loot from Japanese retro game shopping!

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Retro by Matt S. One of the best things about shopping for otaku stuff in Japan is the retro gaming scene. There are shops everywhere – particularly in Akihabara and Nakano Broadway – that carry a massive range of really retro games, all the way back to the NES. As…

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Retro Reflections: Final Fantasy IX; our eulogy to the Active Time Battle system

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Retro reflections by Brad L. With Final Fantasy IX recently being released to a new generation on the PlayStation 4. We thought that rather than reviewing a 17-year-old game that has had minimal improvements in this port, we would instead reflect upon something that really ended with the final PlayStation…

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