Bitmap Books constantly rolls out one amazing book after another, here we review the next book in that long list, The Unofficial SNES Pixel Book. The tome has been specially created in collaboration with German publisher Elektrospieler and packs over 272 pages of content to celebrates Nintendo’s ultra-popular home console the SNES. So let’s look […]
Beach Spikers Virtua Beach Volleyball, to give it its full title, was released in the arcades by Sega’s AM2 in 2001 and subsequently ported as an exclusive to the Gamecube a year later. This is very much typical of Sega’s output at the time with bright sparkling visuals in that classic blue sky style – […]
The Dreamcast was way ahead of its time in many ways, you only have to look at the catalogue of games for it to realise this was and still is a very special console. During its short lifespan it had to compete with the juggernaut that was the PS2 and let’s face it, nothing before […]
Escape from Monster Manor proclaims to be a 3DO experience from Electronic Arts. It’s a factual statement, I‘ll give it that, but the use of the word experience? A bold assertion, certainly. Hyperbole, almost definitely. Sign of a good game? Well… Escape from Monster Manor was a very early release for the 3DO, coming out […]
Off-World Interceptor is a third person driving shoot-em up that puts you in the shoes of a “Trashman”, an interplanetary bounty hunter tasked with apprehending several dangerous criminals. So far, so good. What this 3DO release does is turn that premise into a rather enjoyable game that also saw later ports to the Sony PlayStation […]
Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude is a collection of more than 30 brand new remixes of classic Amiga game tunes. Featuring many famous names like- Andrew Barnabas, Allister Brimble, Mike Clarke, Fabian Del Priore, Olof Gustafsson, Jogeir Liljedahl, Joi, Jon Hare, Chris Huelsbeck, Barry Leitch, Patrick Nevian, Jason Page, Instant Remedy, Matthias Steinwachs, Jeroen […]
The hallmark of quality in videogames is when a title is worth buying the host console for. Super Monkey Ball was a reason to get a Gamecube at launch and I’d argue is still the best thing that came out on it. Sega’s Monkey Ball originally appeared in arcades in 2001 and it’s a fair […]
This is Greyfox Books second Kickstarter campaign! One bonus of running RVG over the years was meeting lots of new people and becoming friends with many of them, one person was Darren Doyle the founder and creator of Greyfox Books, what I can tell you that over on our forum we have known about this […]
The Atari Jaguar GD Cartridge is for, you guessed it, the Atari Jaguar. This is another one of those consoles you either love or hate, some might say it’s a niche system but I don’t really subscribe to those thoughts. It’s a console that has a thriving homebrew community, maybe one of the most active, […]
Tetsujin: Iron Angel of the Apocalypse is commonly referred to as a first person shooter and was released for the 3DO in early 1994. Developed by Synergy Inc, it also purports to be “An Action Role-Playing Movie”. Yep, you can cross that one of your 1990’s Gaming Cliche Bingo Card if you have it. This […]