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My Perfect Videogames #1 of 4 – Super Breakout (Atari 2600)

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To claim that a videogame is perfect is quite bold. But I’m going to name four that I consider to be so – simply because they require no further adornment. In this short series of articles I will name 4 games that I think are perfect – evidenced as such by the fact that I […]

Solar Jet Man: NES Review

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In the same genre as Atari’s vastly underrated arcade game Gravitar and the popular home game Thrust which was a C64 game inspired by the arcade game and ported to practically every 8bit platform ; including an excellent latter-day homebrew Atari 2600 version. Solar Jet Man takes the genre to its ultimate limits, taking the […]

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 […]

Solar Storm – 2600 review

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The 2600 library is awash with 2D shooters; some great, most pretty generic. Indeed , the glut of so many poorly implemented retreads of the same game was a factor in the US game crash in the mid-80s. Solar Storm is a 2D shooter, but it has a few features that make it stand out […]

Wolfenstein 3D – 3DO Review

Wolfenstein 3D is rightly seen as the granddaddy of first person shooters. A 1992 PC shareware release, it not only popularised the game format, but also, for a time, the method of shareware distribution. As such, this title had more ports than the Hanseatic League (one for the history buffs out there), ranging from a […]

Bomb Jack – a Powerfully Addictive Classic on your Spectrum!

By DrChris
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It’s always puzzled me as to who or what kind of a person of being Bomb Jack actually is. A masked crusader who must stop seemingly randomly placed explosives going off. Moving at lightning speed he bounds around levels collecting bombs and becoming an arcade hero in the process. It’s one of the best arcade […]

Space Shuttle : A Journey into Space – 2600 Review

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This ambitious title is a simulation of a complete space shuttle mission developed by Activision’s Steve Kitchen who had access to the actual shuttle simulators as a reference. The player uses the joystick controller and the actual console switches (tv-type, left and right difficulty etc.) to launch the shuttle, achieve stable orbit, rendezvous with satellites, […]

Starblade – 3DO Review

For home computers and consoles in the 1980’s and ‘90’s, it was considered essential to have conversions of popular arcade games. Sometimes, on very rare occasions, this meant pixel perfect replica’s, but often there were compromises as arcade hardware offered technical specifications far in advance of anything you could buy for the home unless you […]