It’s probably a little weird to be writing a review of the Retroid Pocket 2+ a few days out from the release of the Pocket 3, but here I am. Such is the price of indecision, I guess—I’ve been eyeing up retro handhelds for a while, but with so many …
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Wonder Boy has a bit of an odd history. It sits alongside Alex Kidd as one of Sega’s more iconic second-string platformers (behind Sonic the Hedgehog, of course), yet inconsistencies with naming conventions, numbering, localisations gave the series a bit of a disjointed canon. Spotty appearances in other Sega compilations …
Update 23/09/2022: Unfortunately, Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth for PS4 and PS5 has been delayed until December 22. Original post: Today, Square Enix officially announced a September 29 console release for Valkyrie Elysium (and November 11 for Steam), confirming earlier reports resulting from store leaks. That’s good news, but the publisher buried …
Red Earth. Released in arcades in 1996 as the showcase for Capcom’s new CPS3 arcade platform, this somewhat eccentric fighting game soon slipped into relative obscurity. A quirky little fighting RPG with just four unfamiliar characters was always going to struggle to step out of Street Fighter II‘s shadow, and …
The revamped, tiered PlayStation Plus is now available in New Zealand, meaning subscribers have access to hundreds of downloadable games. While PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 games make up the bulk of that number, of particular note for anyone who likes to look back a little further is the Classics …
When you think of “Taito milestones”, what comes to mind? Space Invaders, surely, as one of the most influential videogames of all time? The inimitable charm of Bubble Bobble? The unique style and innovation of Darius? You’ll find none of these in Taito Milestones. This new 10-game compilation is touted …
The Tecmo Bowl comparisons are inevitable, and while its inspirations from Tecmo’s groundbreaking game are clear, you’d be mistaken for thinking Retro Bowl is a simple throwback to a bygone era. Beneath its nostalgic homage is a game that combines deep on-field strategy and team management with the pick-up-and-play ease …
Earlier this year, Taito threw its hat into the mini-console ring with the announcement of the Taito Egret II mini, a miniature version of one of Taito’s most popular arcade cabinets. At that time, only a Japanese release was on the cards, but it’s now confirmed for North America and …
Playing Monster Rancher in 2021 is a surreal experience, to say the least. On one hand, it’s a ’90s game through and through, when CDs were still the standard music format and the relative novelty of a disc-based game console made a fun gimmick out of putting your music into …
Gynoug is far from the first retro re-release to augment an authentic port with handy modern conveniences like save states and rewind tools, but it’s easily one of the better examples I’ve encountered. Amid the endless debate about preserving old classics exactly as they were and making their more dated …