Review by Harvard L. Mighty Gunvolt Burst comes at an exciting time for the Nintendo Switch – it’s the first hardcore platformer available for the console, and it arrives before Nintendo’s own Virtual Console does so it won’t need to compete with the retro games it aims to emulate. Inti…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. One of the first games ever released was called Spacewar. In that game, two players controlled ships which rotated and moved in an unwieldy way, trying to shoot the other ship before their own was destroyed. AstroDuel Deluxe for the Nintendo Switch is what Spacewar would…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. Everyone knows Pac-Man. Even people who have never played a game in their lives will recognise Pac-Man. That distinctive yellow pie with a slice cut out of it is surely one of the most renowned and important videogame characters ever made. But in that early…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. It’s funny how one of the simplest games of all time – Space Invaders – can still be so completely addictive. One of thousands of games on my cocktail arcade cabinet, and a game that you can easily play in some form or other for…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. One of my favourite games as a kid was Snow Bros. Jr. on the Game Boy Color. It wasn’t even my game. It belonged to my cousins, but every time I would visit I would end up borrowing the game for as long as I…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. There’s an event on in Sydney every year; the Royal Easter Show, which is a massive event run, in the main, to showcase Australia’s agricultural produce and culture to the city (and state). These days it’s also about a range of general attractions, of course,…
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Retro reflections by Matt S. One of my favourite genres is the dungeon crawler. Forming a party of heroes, and then inching my way around a labyrinth of of death, filled with monsters, traps, and, of course, loot, really appealed to the Dungeons & Dragons player in me. The dungeon…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Wonder Boy was one of the first video games I had ever played. I owned it on the old Commodore 64, and despite that version being inferior to the arcade and Master System editions. I did spend countless hours on it. Same goes with its sequel,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Ahhhh nostalgia. You can never keep it down. And that works out really well for game developers and publishers, who can dip into those back catalogues every so often to create a “classic game” collection and the sell it off with a minimum of development work.…
Read MoreReviews by Harvard L. The Neo Geo was a rather unorthodox beast – with an enormously steep asking price, it was marketed by developers SNK as a luxury console which ran sprite based games with incredible smoothness. Unfortunately, this was the era of the Nintendo 64 and Playstation (1) and…
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