Category: Reviews

It’s not exactly “standard practice” for an 8-bit video / computer game to take 30 (Thirty?!) years from conception to release, but Outrage is one...

I have an extraordinarily hard time naming even three franchises that consist of four consecutive games of such ultra high quality as the Metal Warrior...

Ain’t that the truth if there ever was one…? But certain maritime-based and work-related scenarios happen to pave way for quite entertaining (Or at least original and interesting.)...

Ain’t that about time, then…?! Some classic Jules Verne as a video game…! (And I hope you have that Spanish dictionary ready… Unless you speak Spanish, obviously.) STORY “Journey...

Because there aren’t enough sophisticatedly devilish and devilishly sophisticated puzzle games on the Spectrum either… STORY A bouncing sphere that can alter tiles. Single-screen levels built from...

The tie-in to Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 masterpiece of an action thriller… As time goes by, one can’t help wondering if this game didn’t represent some...

Even superheroes need a club to not feel excluded… And if you want to feel like one of the good guys in a world of evil bastards,...

Get behind the wheel for some bad dream-inducing rally in quite a rad racer…! … Wait… No… Wrong game and wrong platform… But this doesn’t mean that the...

Sick and tired? Fed up with always having to play Van Helsing or some vampire hunter when going up against Count Dracula? Anemia and lack of nourishment...

Wipe out the invading scum in this proto-RTS game… Feel the full aspect of this mechanized conflict between Earth and the Insignian forces… The last stand… STORY So that’s...

SEGA’s racing game compressed and compromised like there was no tomorrow (Or future!) after the 1986 Christmas holidays… But were there any traces of redeemable factors in the...

We just have to… You can’t talk about the ZX Spectrum without mentioning the port of R-Type in detail. It just can not be done. STORY The Speccy in original...

Anyone who ever had any connection to 80s table top role-playing games and Fantasy gamebooks should know in his / her sleep who Joe Dever (R.I.P.) and Gary...

There were all these warnings for graphic content… But none for the weirdly intriguing plot… Or that the game does its damnedest to crawl under your skin… Everything depicted in...

Ever since computers were invented, people have wished that they could communicate with them on a human level. Maybe this all stemmed from the idea that computers were...

Pest control takes a turn for the unbelievably bloody serious when an alien bee-hive invades Myrtle Rowbottom’s garden. STORY So there is this giant extraterrestrial bee-hive that suddenly landed...

You have got to love literal video game titles… Although some of the immediately make you wonder if the games in question actually can be something real… At...

Never, ever forget Pro Evolution Soccer, but forget some of the dozens of Football games on the 8-bit machines…! Because Emlyn Hughes’ program is absolutely...

Get the gang together and set out to destroy the force that once gave invading enemies a destructive power… On the Islands Of The Western Seas, there isn’t...

Attempt to solve a tricky and increasingly dangerous case in lovely 8-bit Game Noir-style, and dream of how good and relatively uncomplicated life felt back in Skool Daze...