Inspired by our PlayStation special podcast, Ben Cartlidge of One Credit Classics remembers the profound effect it had on his gaming life. I had a fairly linear route with computers […]
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Resident Evil 2 Quick Rinse
In celebration of Capcom’s recent remake announcement, this here’s Darren Gargette playing Angel Studios’ ambitious N64 conversion of Resident Evil 2, as emulated (poorly) on PC. If you like these […]
Music Monday: Chrono Trigger
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: 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. […]
Strider
Brian Tarran slices and dices his way through the 2014 remake of the ninja action adventure. If the 2014 remake of Strider was a car, it would be a mid-range […]
Music Monday: Mr Driller
I’ve always found the juxtaposition between Mr Driller, an innocuously simple up, down, left, right, dig arcade action puzzle game and its grand, intricate soundtrack quite thrilling. All of the […]
WipEout 64 Quick Rinse
Our Darren Gargette floats gracefully on a cushion of air thanks mostly to his high-fibre diet. WipEout’s only N64 outing was ostensibly a cartridge-based port of PlayStation WipEout 2097 (aka WipEout […]
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero Quick Rinse
“Who are you to judge?” Darren Gargette plays one of the most critically reviled games of all time: Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero. Here Darren is playing the Nintendo 64 version […]
Quake II Quick Rinse – Strogg enough
Darren Gargette’s id Software retrospective continues with 1997’s Quake II. PC version shown.
Between GoldenEye 007 and Halo: Combat Evolved – the console first-person shooter 1998-2001
Conventional wisdom, and a couple of throwaway comments on our recent Halo Anniversary podcast Issue, say that after Rare’s 1997 Bond smash and before Bungie’s 2001 game-changer, there weren’t any first-person […]
Hanabi HD: Japanese fireworks on PSN
One of the more progressive moves in terms of pandering to the ‘enthusiast’ market which Nintendo has undertaken in recent years is the series of Hanabi Festivals, where, often critically […]