See those walls? Break ’em The Virtual Console allows gamers young and old to experience revolutionary games that defined a generation. In some cases though, it also showcases some of the biggest issues with game design. Milon’s Secret Castle falls into the latter category, as it presents one of the…
Read MoreHosting retro downloads on a service like Virtual Console sometimes throws up a nice surprise; a game you hadn’t had a chance to play when it was new, and perhaps never even heard of. Avenging Spirit is one such pleasant surprise. Jaleco’s forgotten platform classic has more than a few…
Read MoreHosting retro downloads on a service like Virtual Console sometimes throws up a nice surprise; a game you hadn’t had a chance to play when it was new, and perhaps never even heard of. Avenging Spirit is one such pleasant surprise. Jaleco’s forgotten platform classic has more than a few…
Read MoreMore interesting than this version of the game. For $Aus6 you’re getting an inferior, colourless version of Pac-Man. I would start and finish my review there, but that would not be doing justice to how cynical and disrespectful this release is for Pac-Man fans, so I feel obliged to go…
Read MoreMore interesting than this version of the game. For $Aus6 you’re getting an inferior, colourless version of Pac-Man. I would start and finish my review there, but that would not be doing justice to how cynical and disrespectful this release is for Pac-Man fans, so I feel obliged to go…
Read MoreSimple, but oh-so-effective Of all the games I had played on the Super Nintendo, Super Mario Kart was the one I missed most. Yes, in my youth I was silly enough to think a newly-released N64 and Hexen 64 (of all games) was more important than the SNES and 16…
Read MoreSimple, but oh-so-effective Of all the games I had played on the Super Nintendo, Super Mario Kart was the one I missed most. Yes, in my youth I was silly enough to think a newly-released N64 and Hexen 64 (of all games) was more important than the SNES and 16…
Read MoreMario’s Picross suffers from a critical failure – for a game about making pictures, the Game Boy was remarkably bad at showing off pictures. It’s still a game with compelling core gameplay but the lack of sense of reward makes this game a very uncertain purchase, especially with both 2D…
Read MoreMario’s Picross suffers from a critical failure – for a game about making pictures, the Game Boy was remarkably bad at showing off pictures. It’s still a game with compelling core gameplay but the lack of sense of reward makes this game a very uncertain purchase, especially with both 2D…
Read MoreAnyone who would claim that the Game Boy couldn’t create an atmosphere of fear has not played Qix. The slinking rows of lines, accompanied by the droning sound and random movements of the Qix, the central enemy that lends the game its name, is stressful to behold. While the gameplay…
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