Chopper wrote: ↑June 7th, 2018, 10:16 am Nice blog, Steve! Really captures the time and place, what with all the incidental detail outside the games themselves.

Thank you! That was the intention - to frame a time and place with a game. Glad you liked it!

I posted a top 50 on here a couple of years ago. I’ve kept it up to date ever since - not that it’s really changed much - and it’s now a top 200 or so, which has inspired me to write a book that’s currently evolving piece by piece from https://retroarcadia.blog , as and when I have time to write new...

Is anyone familiar with a mobile game called 'Out There'. I’ve had Out There on my iPad for years and never played it. Until now! What a cool game. I’m not massive into spaceship management but this is pretty simple to grasp and there’s a great risk-reward system at play. You’re right -it’s pretty ...

Fortified for PC and MAC is free on Steam until Friday. Not played it yet but looks like a pretty cool 50’s B-Movie style strategy game come shooter.

A racer without races, how does that work then? Time trials? What do you think of Ocarina of Time playing it in 2018? Wind Waker was my personal favourite in the series. It’s my first Zelda game! Not sure how long I’ve played or how far to go but I’m at the Temple of Time. I’m playing on the 3DS an...

Thanks guys. I will check out those podcasts, and the X collection. I’m veering towards the first collection at the moment!

Anyone else try the Onrush PS4 beta? Great to see some originality in a racer (with no races), but I found once you got past the initial thrill it soon felt very shallow and success very random. I am really, really enjoying Golf Story on the Switch! As much as I want to get Ocarina of Time finished ...

The Mega Man Legacy Collections are out on the Switch eShop today at £11.99 each. I’ve never played a Mega Man game before but wouldn’t mind trying one at that price and seeing how I get on. Which one though? Collection 1 has the first six games, and 2 has games 7-10. Any recommendations on which is...

I got a Switch for my birthday this week and have been having a wonderful time with Mario Kart 8 - on the TV, handheld, two player with my son... struggling to stop playing it and give Zelda and Golf Story a go, which I got too! I’m also wondering if the Dragon Quest Builders demo will ever end - se...

For anyone that doesn't own it on every platform under the sun, Peggle is currently free for PC and MAC on EA Origin. Just sign in / sign up and it's all yours.

Friday the 13th is £7.99 in the PSN sale too. Anyone recommend it? All fixed and plenty of content now?

I’ve played through a bit of Rayman Legends, with every intention of giving it a quick go as it was free with PS+ then binning it as I’ve never been a fan of Rayman. But I’m quite enjoying it so might keep going. Similar for King Oddball -blatant Angry Birds rip-off but I seem to be about two-thirds...

I've also finally gotten around to playing Downwell but I may have shot myself in the foot. I thought this would be a perfect mobile game - quick-fix, portrait perspective - but the buttons are in the absolute worst place. I never appreciated how important it is to be able to look ahead in a game l...

Just played through the Detroit: Become Human demo and I think I liked it, but probably not enough to buy the game on the strength of it. It seems to veer towards choose your own adventure game more than interactive movie, the investigation and clue systems are very intuitive - a bit like the Batman...

I’m much the same, with Rocket League and Stardew Valley as backup for when I don’t feel like getting too deep into something on console, and generally Pokemon on 3DS for when the TV is occupied. I had my first go on an Xbox (of any flavour) ever today! Got my son an Xbox One for his birthday, then ...

Thanks for reading the small print Leon. And apologies for not doing so myself!

Very nice Sega X Capcom Humble Bundle online today: PAY WHAT YOU WANT: Dead Rising (PS4) Dustforce (Vita) Crazy Taxi (PS3) Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz (Vita) BEAT THE AVERAGE: Resident Evil (PS4) Mega Man Legacy Collection (PS4) Resident Evil Code: Veronica X (PS4) Sonic Generations (PS3) Binar...

Satellite Reign (cyberpunk RTS) currently free on the Humble Store for PC and MAC. https://www.humblebundle.com/store/satellite-reign

I’ve played a lot of this since it first appeared as a PS4 freebie. It remains my PS4’s longest undeleted resident and I still play it regularly. But... strip away the incredible visual effects, the power-ups and play modes, and I still prefer the purity of gameplay found in its inspiration, Defende...

I love a match-three, but this had way too much crap going on around the core gameplay to keep me playing for long. What I did appreciate was its colourblind-friendly design, which has often put paid to many a similar game for me. I’m just not into Marvel enough to have persevered I guess.