Loads of Space Invaders Invincible Collection this week, partially played for review, but mostly because I love Space Invaders! Not sure I’d spend £55 on it, but there’s no denying there’s a lot of classics spread across its eleven games. One really nice surprise was Space Cyclone, which was built o...

Enjoyed reading through those! I do have the complete opposite opinion on Rob (not Ron - he’s the sci-fi guy) Hubbard’s Commando theme though - my favourite game music ever! I did go into why here: https://retroarcadia.blog/2021/02/24/top-25-favourite-gaming-anthems-part-2/ Bit amateur compared to ...

Space Invaders Invincible Collection on Switch is out on the 17th too. More Space Invaders than you ever knew you needed!

Horace is a funny one. At several points during my playthrough I thought I'd had my fill, but then it changed or added something to keep it interesting. I think it does this right up to the end of the game. The cut scenes did my head in a bit just due to how long and frequent they are, but overall ...

Away on our hols this week, so a rare bit of Switch handheld love, and mostly all-time favourite arcade stuff like Thunder Force AC, P-47, Out Run and loads of Virtua Racing, where, after 50 hours of play on its three tracks, I got an unexpected best ever time on Big Forest - twice! Also played abou...

The Amstrad version of Renegade was even more annoying; you had to move with the joystick and attack and jump on keyboard buttons. Fortunately the sequel, Target Renegade, just let you play with the joystick and fire buttons for attack. Re: Dead Space, I abandoned it about halfway through but can't...

Double Dragon II reverted to those controls as well, after dropping them for the first DD. Not sure I've ever heard from anyone who finds Dead Space boring before. Didn’t know they went back to those controls again. I’ve still never played any version of Double Dragon II though. Not sure why. Maybe...

Tried stylish cyberpunk twin-stick RPG The Ascent, newly to Game Pass, but it didn’t seem to be for me and the clunky UI didn’t encourage me to persevere just to be sure - hold B for 3 seconds every time you need to close one of the hundred messages that pops up in the first hour? Really? Also playe...

4 July: Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance (Xbox Series X) 5 July: Out Run (PC-Engine) 6 July: Madden NFL 21 Franchise Mode (Xbox Series X) 7 July: Panzer Dragoon Mini (Game Gear) 13 July: Super Turrican (SNES on Switch) 17 July: Pit-Fighter (Arcade on Xbox Series X) 17 July: Forza Horizon 4 (Xbox...

I was lucky enough to be given a couple of review codes this week, one for the new Cotton Reboot and one for DariusBurst Another Chronicle EX+, both just launched on Switch (and PS4). I’ve been a Cotton fan for a while, but it’s never been easy to access the best of this often Japan-only witchy cute...

Same here. I’ll normally have maximum two big games on the go at any time, which I wouldn’t say I binge, but will use most of whatever gaming time I gave to get through them before starting anything else.

Finished Resident Evil 4 on PS4, which is forever a pleasure of the highest order, and also perfect timing for my longest-running eBay hunt, Luigi’s Mansion on GameCube, to finally end! I am completely in love with the art style, which couldn’t be more suited to the platform, and once you’ve got the...

After spending over 160 hours playing them and finding some all-time favourites there, I’ll always defend these NES and SNES releases, but looking at these I’m afraid there’s nothing there I even want to try this time. But that’s the first time ever, so I’ll give them a pass.

I’ve been looking forward to Cotton Reboot for months, then my Astro City Mini arrived with a version of Cotton I’ve never played, and I’ve still not had my fill there yet, so might be relegated to my wish list for a sale now. Maybe…

I’m rarely without the temptation to start another game of Resident Evil 4, but I was off work this week and happily gave in to the PS4 version! A top 3 favourite game ever, but I still spend half my time reloading checkpoints to a see a cutscene again, or just hanging around a particularly pictures...

https://thirtysongsofjune.wordpress.com/ I'm about a week into my fourth year of writing posts about video game music. If you filled out the survey I posted her last month, you'll probably see your answer written about if I haven't already. It's no Sound of Play, but any port in a storm, right? Enj...

I’ve mentioned this a couple of times in the gaming forum, but now I’ve done a full review of the stunning new ZX Spectrum racer, Travel Through Time Vol. 1: Northern Lights… https://retroarcadia.blog/2021/07/07/ga ... -spectrum/

Here’s something specialist… Witch Vomit - Abhorrent Rapture. I’ve always been very selective about death metal, probably only genuinely liking a handful of albums, although I would count Bolt Thrower’s Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness in my top fifteen albums ever! This might not quite reach thos...

I’ve really enjoyed Fear Street so far. Nothing new for me, but as Seph said, it doesn’t pull its punches and I can’t wait for the conclusion next week. The new Resident Evil Infinite Darkness anime (also on Netflix) is exactly what you expect, but I watched all of them so it must have something. Or...

I wonder when we're going to see Braid Anniversary Edition. I've been holding on to some eShop credit for ages to get it, and I'd been expecting (based on nothing) we'd have seen it by now. It's really a race between that and Silksong to who gets my saved up eShop gold points, haha. Has there been ...