Tag: Review
We go back to 1988 and check out Silmarils’ drug-busting beat ’em up for Amiga and Atari ST!
Portal goes 8-bit in Jamie Fuller’s C64 tribute to Valve Software’s puzzle game!
We look back at Randy Glover’s remarkably innovative platform game from 1983!
We put Raster Wizard’s 2018 remake of the classic hack n’ slash arcade game under the microscope!
Featuring plenty of old-school charm, there’s a lot to like about Night OWL Design’s latest game for classic Amigas!
After 18 months of blood, sweat, tears, not to mention late nights, Matt Gray has finally released the digital version of Reformation 2, the highly-anticipated second album containing remixes of classic Commodore 64 music. I’ve always been somewhat wary of handing money to crowd-sourced funding campaigns, but I made the exception when the Kickstarter for the original Reformation was launched…
Several months ago, we were excited to preview Dawn of Kernel, the latest game in development for the Amstrad CPC 464 by Juan J. Martinez (Resucing Orc, Magica, Golden Tail). The game has finally been released to the general public, and we finally got some time to go hands-on with this nifty little flick-screen arcade shooter! In terms of system support, the…
Talk to any fan of the Commodore 64, and it won’t be long before they mention the machine’s iconic SID chip. Responsible for the soundtracks to so many of our childhoods, this 3-voice synthesizer was capable of producing some truly amazing music, all made possible thanks to the creativity of the composers and ‘SIDicians’ who used it. As huge fans…
In this edition of Retro Revisited, we’ll be looking back at Syndicate Wars, the much-anticipated sequel to one of the best real-time action-strategy games of the early 90’s, Syndicate. The original game proved to be incredibly popular, and remains one of my favourite games of all time – to say that I was excited when I learned that a sequel was in development would be something of an understatement! The game…
Of all the coin-op classics to grace the arcades in the late 1980s, there is one in particular that I remember more fondly than any other. Upon entering any arcade, I would always make a point of searching for existence for this particular game. Much like a celestial body caught in the body of a planet’s gravitational field, the lure of…
