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The Neo-Geo arcade cabinets and home console were among the best around during the 80s and 90s, with some excellent games carrying the Neo-Geo logo on startup. The console and games for use at home were prohibitively expensive at the time, but that didn’t stop me wanting one, a dream […]
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Moon Alert starts fairly easily with a jump here and there, and a pile of what looks like Space pooh done by Mr. Whippy which can be jumped over, or shot which gives a nice little explosion animation.
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As with every Sunday, we are in competitive mode and trying our luck against our fellow retro gamers in various Facebook Groups. This one is the Arcade 20p Challenge from RetroTech100 Facebook group and this week the challenge is 2 credits (20 pence used to buy 2 credits on a […]
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Once again we try our hand at a High Score Challenge set by the guys at the FaceBook Group Retro Games Forever, with this weeks Amiga Challenge being the Side Scrolling Shooter, Project X. This game has a rock hard difficulty for the sub par gamer such as myself, but […]
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Another of the weekly challenges I do is the Retrotech100 Arcade 20p Challenge, this is based around using 20p to score as high as possible or go as far as possible into an Arcade game. It is set at 20p because that was the cost of 2 credits back in […]
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I have spent a lot of my time over the last year competing (badly) in challenges in retro gaming facebook groups, such as RetroTech100 and Retro Games Forever, this weeks RGF challenge on the ZX Spectrum was Mega Phoenix. As Phoenix is among my favourite shootem up games on almost […]
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It all started, as these things do, with a conversation with my brother. These conversations always go along the lines of him saying we should do something, me agreeing and then nothing happening. This one was different, I had an idea for a road trip to Cambridge to visit the […]
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During my Hiatus from this blog I wasn’t just sitting around doing nothing, mostly I was but not only sitting around doing nothing. In fact I was sitting around tinkering with stuff like Raspberry Pi and the fantastic Retropie emulation system along with learning a little more about Kodi, the […]
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Anybody familiar with the seminal work of Psygnosis on the Amiga i.e. Shadow of the Beast will know exactly what the company is capable of. Agony has a very similar graphical style to SOTB although this time we are treated to a very Psygnosis take on the side scrolling shmup […]
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Outrun was one of those Arcade games that everyone over 30 will remember playing somewhere, and for many of us the home console and computer versions were our way of bringing that arcade joy to our own house. That feeling of being in a fast car with a pretty girl […]
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