Guest columnist Glen Watts takes time out to laud Yasunori Mitsuda’s Chrono Trigger score. It’s 1994 and Yasunori Mitsuda is not a happy man. Having joined Squaresoft two years previously […]
MUSIC MONDAY
Music Monday: Lemmings
Two dozen years ago last week Lemmings invaded home computers for the first time. This was of course DMA Design’s fictional, blue tunicked, Doozer-like subspecies rather than the adorable but […]
Music Monday: Metroid Prime
Last Thursday, 29th January 2015, was a day worthy of celebration. It was a red letter day for gamers, particularly those who hadn’t previously managed to buy a copy of […]
Music Monday: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
The original Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (or Circle of Blood if you’re in the US) is one of those games of which I retain immensely lucid memories. […]
Music Monday: NiGHTS into dreams…
I’d posit that NiGHTS into dreams… is as much of a synaesthetic experience as Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s Rez. It’s inconceivable that the game would offer the option to mute the uplifting, […]
Music Monday: Diddy Kong Racing
Issue 156 of the Cane and Rinse podcast is out now, and it’s all about the jolly japes of Rare’s 1997 kartie/kitey/kraftie klassic, Diddy Kong Racing. Much of our lingering […]
Music Monday: Super Smash Bros.
We’ve gone large on Super Smash Bros. to mark the release of the latest version of the game on Wii U. We’ve got three Quick Rinse videos of the N64 […]
Music Monday: Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
It’s been over a year since SEGA Studios Australia released their (to me) hugely disappointing remake for contemporary platforms, but, as is not unusual, I woke up feeling nostalgic for […]
Music Monday: Spelunky
I remember hearing a Scottish games journalist (whose name escapes me – many apologies) enthusing about the original, free PC version of Spelunky on his “Best Worst Games” feature on […]
Music Monday: Silent Hill
Music Monday returns with guest contributor and Silent Hill/Akira Yamaoka superfan, Jon Salmon (@CatatonicNali). Let me preface this by saying that I’m something of a Silent Hill fanatic. I’ve played […]
Music Monday: Xenon 2: Megablast
So the obvious Music Monday this week would almost certainly be the one that ties in with issue 150 of the podcast, and celebrates the much-lauded soundtrack to Hotline Miami. […]
Music Monday: Dragon Age: Origins
A blindingly obvious but frankly essential Music Monday this week. In the latest Cane and Rinse the podcast (issue 149) we review BioWare’s five-year-old (how?!) RPG, Dragon Age: Origins. Returning […]