MegaDrive/Genesis

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Rambo III – Sega Mega Drive Review

Ah, good old John Rambo! You know the guy. That kid friendly character that spawned an action figure range. The one whose first film was a tense, psychological portrayal of a Vietnam veteran. The one whose second film became more like American wish fulfilment. And the one whose 18-rated third film couldn’t have been more […]

PGA Tour Golf – Sega Mega Drive Review

Hard to believe that the first PGA Tour Golf game was released 31 years ago, and whilst it made a bit of a splash on the PC, it wasn’t until conversions to the Amiga and Mega Drive/Genesis the following year that it really hit the big time. Having enjoyed its successor on the 3DO a […]

Micro Machines ’96 Turbo Tournament – Megadrive/Genesis Review

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Micro Machines was a gaming phenomenon in the UK – it is an old school racer in the same stable as classics such as Atari’s Super Sprint in that the view is top down, but there are many differences and improvements made to the genre in this series of games. The first main difference is […]

Ms Pacman Megadrive/Genesis Review

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Tengen’s Ms. Pacman on the Megadrive gives us a port of the famous arcade game with a host of variations and new ways to play for 1 and 2 players. Graphics This is Ms. Pacman and graphics are as good as you can expect for a game of this type. However this is no pixel […]

Toki – Going Ape Spit – Megadrive/Genesis

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Toki (aka Ju Ju) is very much a game of its time; the late 80s/early 90s were a time when the platformer was king. This of course meant that there were were an awful lot of indentikit games around – hordes of these games existed and many of them offered nothing new. Toki stood out […]

F-15 Strike Eagle 2 – Megadrive/Genesis Review

For those of you of a certain vintage and into flight sims, you may feel a little sorry for the F-15E Strike Eagle. In the 1980’s, the F-14A Tomcat and F-16A Fighting Falcon took pride of place in cinematic outings – the F-14 being the star of Top Gun (yes, even more so than Tom […]

Phantasy Star IV: A Megadrive RPG Classic

By DrChris
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At the mention of popular Role Playing Games inevitably Final Fantasy becomes the main focus of the discussion. Final Fantasy 7 arguably brought the JRPG genre to the masses to the west and is widely regarded as one of the greatest examples of the genre. However, there is one game that I believe rivals FF7 […]

Golden Axe – A Megadrive Review.

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When anyone mentions the Golden Axe series, it conjures up instant nostalgia. It’s one of the most well-known beat-em-up series in history and possibly one of the most played throughout the decades. Golden Axe exploded onto the Arcade scene in May 1989, it was quickly ported to the Sega Genesis / Megadrive in December of […]

LHX Attack Chopper – A Retro Review

Reading the June 1990 issue of Computer and Videogames brought back so many good memories. Forget the World Cup, forget the music and the very dubious fashion. No, June’s issue contained a number of corking reviews: the timeless Loom, the forgotten gem Persian Gulf Inferno, and the helicopter flight sim LHX Attack Chopper. Gaining a […]

M1 Abrams Battle Tank – A Retro Review.

Everyone remembers the first game they played on a new console or computer, and that was typically the pack-in game. When I was lucky enough to receive a Sega Mega Drive for Christmas, the standard pack-in game was Altered Beast, and yes, that was the title that demonstrated the exciting new times of 16-bit console […]