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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?!) […]