Indie-developer Gears for Breakfast has proudly announced that their cheerful platformer A Hat in Time has bagged over 500,000 sales since its initial launch in October 2017.Funded on Kickstarter several years back, A Hat in Time was inspir...
It is a rare thing that I would ever purchase a console for one game, and it’s usually for some pretty strange titles. Back when Katamari Damacy came out on the PlayStation 2, I bought the game before I even owned the system fearing i...
One of the reasons shmups were such a prevalent genre in the '80s arcade scene was the simplicity of creating an in-game universe. Just grab yourself a black screen to represent space, dot in some pixel stars, overlay your sprites and you'r...
In recent months, leading up to the anticipated release of Sonic Mania Plus, a fun series of short cartoons were commisioned hyping the blue blur and his chums. Sonic Mania Adventures was a return to the 'toons of old; short, funny, colourf...
This week sees one of the most niche, but coolest one-on-one fighters from the SNK back catalogue return on PS4 and Xbox One, as Hamster bring us Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior.The final mainline title in the Art of Fighting ser...
Pre-orders have opened for a line of 3/4 scale arcade cabinets from Arcade1Up featuring games like Centipede, Rampage, Ghosts N' Goblins, and Super Street Fighter II Turbo. The machines are a little under four feet tall, use a 17" LCD scree...
I didn't have a Commodore 64 growing up, I had a ZX Spectrum +2. One of my best pals did have the C64 though, so between us we had the best of both worlds. He brought the '70s aesthetic and tiresome multi-loading, I brought the monochrome g...
A weird and wonderful '80s classic returned to the Nintendo Switch this week, courtesy of retro-enthusiasts Hamster. Buckle up and put the pedal to the metal as we take a look at Jaleco's bizarre racing/platformer hybrid City Connection.Fir...
Hamster dip into their big bag of sporting titles for this week's SNK re-release, as the supremely silly League Bowling returns for PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Originally available in the arcades 1990 before coming to the Neo Geo hom...
Despite some serious pathfinding issues that have caused a total overhaul of the entire project, Nightdive Studios continue to plug away at their promising remake of 1994's terrifying PC title, System Shock.At this current point in time, th...
Launching earlier in July, the Weekly Shonen Jump 50th Anniversary Famicom is a celebration of classic anime and manga-based video games, pretty much all of which never saw the light of day on Western shores.Of course, such a cool niche dev...
Although Capcom's arcade compendium Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection has been available in the West for some time now, Japan is still awaiting its own edition of the game, featuring localised text and character names.When it final...
[image credit: Tyler McGrath] Sonic is back. Okay well he had a trademark misstep with Forces, but the charm of Sonic Mania and its subsequent cartoon are undeniable: enough to muster an appreciation that will cleanse the world of the ...
Pop-up books were all the rage back when I was a kid. They were a lot of fun, until they got replaced by... I dunno... Screamer videos? Regardless, it was a lot of fun turning the page slowly and watching all of the cleverly-constructed pap...
No matter how much you love something, there is probably someone out there who loves it more. That's most assuredly the case with Kaze Emanuar and Super Mario 64. For years Kaze has been fine-tuning Mario 64 to look and feel as smooth ...
While many of the Neo Geo titles Hamster have bestowed upon us weekly could be considered classics, this week's offering; The Super Spy, is unfortunately not one of them.First released in 1990, for arcades and the home Neo Geo platform, The...
Playstation Underground has released a new video, featuring 12 minutes of footage from the upcoming Spyro Reignited Trilogy, which remasters three of the fire-breathing marvel's classic PlayStation adventures.In the video, developer Toys fo...
This week sees Hamster continue in their efforts to bring all the classic SNK titles to modern platforms, with one-on-one fighter Samurai Shodown V returning on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Originally releasing in 2003, Samurai Shodown...
Popular sports games have a reputation for being highly expendable and ending up on the bottom racks of second-hand stores, selling for mere pennies. This is a pretty fair judgment of the genre, since people want the games to reflect new te...
Banjo & Kazooie, the adventure loving twosome who starred in Rare's '90s N64 titles, are the next characters in line to receive the statue from the talented craftspeople at First 4 Figures. A new video, which you can check out below, fe...
I just took a two-decade trip down memory lane and now I'm feeling weirdly emotional. In this precious footage from 1996, Nintendo's Ken Lobb demonstrates the wonderful world of Super Mario 64 to a captivated audience. We're so used to seei...
We knew the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection was coming, but now thanks to an announcement from publisher NIS, we have a clear date -- November 13 in the US and November 16 in Europe. It'll still have rewinding, a modern save syste...
Taito's intergalactic space shooter Darius, first launched in 1986, set a benchmark for the shmup genre with its amazing, fast-paced action. Next year, fans will have a chance to relieve the arcade classic and its many sequels with a new co...
We're taking a real trip down memory lane this week, courtesy of Hamster and the Arcade Archives range, as Taito's 1986 brawler, Renegade, is now available to download on Nintendo Switch.One of my favourite games as a kid, Renegade launched...
Hamster continue on their quest to bring the huge catalogue of '90s classics to modern platforms via their Neo Geo ACA range. Yesterday saw something a little different available for download as Money Puzzle Exchanger launched on PS4, Xbox ...
My sugar is currently Normally Id have some juice or a healthy cereal, but Im so broke its gonna be Captain Pray for the roof of my
I look forward to Shenmue HD Collection tomorrow becoming the most hyperbolically reviled thing on the internet in 2018 since Teen Titans Go! To The You know its gonna happen!
Update: Apparently my room was burst into because no one knew that I had My stepsister was so buried in her phone she completely forgot that she saw me leaving this afternoon, and I couldnt answer the phone because I was Am I that quiet?
Gonna need a bit more time with the water level blog, ended up getting longer than I I wanted to publish tonight, but it needs more time in the oven- should hopefully be done tomorrow night, Wednesday at the
Much like juggling, BeepBox is a skill set I will never use and yet I cant stop doing
People that identify themselves mostly by what they consume are It would be like being a cipher, a real-life silent Is that why #NotMyBattlefield exists?
Did a little shopping today :P apparently this came out this year and has decent Also finally gonna rewatch one of my favorite shows ever!
Mega Man Legends is such a chill Its definitely a nice way to relax after torturing myself with the latter Mega Man X
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Just finished Started off meh, now I need to know what happens! What’s this itchy sensation I’m feeling?
