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Review: Super Destronaut DX (PS4)

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It’s Space Invaders! Again! But even though Super Destronaut DX throws in a few innovations, there’s not much to hold your attention for long.

Lewis Packwood 7 August 2018 Reviews

I wish there was a sequel to… Folklore

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This 2007 PS3 RPG from now-defunct Japanese developer Game Republic really was something special – and it’s a criminal shame that it never got the sequel it deserved.

Lewis Packwood 21 February 2018 I wish there was a sequel to...

Predictions of the future of video gaming from 1993

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The very first issue of Edge magazine saw a gaggle of video-game luminaries make predictions about the digital future. How did they do?

Lewis Packwood 12 February 2018 Features

Bob Wakelin’s best piece of video game cover art

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RIP Bob Wakelin. He created some of the most iconic cover art of the eighties and nineties, but there’s one cover in particular that stands out for me – Wizkid.

Lewis Packwood 29 January 2018 Opinions

Your Amiga games probably don’t work any more

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Floppy disks gradually de-magnetise over time – so-called bit rot. I spoke to groups who are trying to save old Amiga games before they’re lost forever.

Lewis Packwood 10 December 2017 Features

What games should be on the Game Boy Mini? [UPDATED]

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Wouldn’t it be amazing if Nintendo made a Game Boy Mini? If they did, here are the games they should definitely put on it…

Lewis Packwood 30 November 2017 Features

Folklore: a pleasing discovery

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That exciting feeling when you uncover a hidden gem down at the local secondhand game shop.

Lewis Packwood 21 November 2017 Opinions

Advertising drivel: What rhymes with Nintendo?

I love old advertisements and marketing material. They in many ways embody a time and place better than […]

___ 20 July 2016 Pulp

How the Kick Off Revival sausage is made

For many years Sensible Soccer was the long-dormant football game I dreamt about in a haze of nostalgia. […]

___ 22 June 2016 Opinions

Is understanding 90’s Sonic the Hedgehog ‘mechanically’ where SEGA is going wrong?

There seems to be no game series that is more self aware of how it has evolved over […]

___ 18 July 2015 Opinions, Reviews

80’s music and the flicker of an old telly let me live someone else’s video game history

Yeah, I’m well versed in Atari’s sordid history, allegedly bringing the gaming market to a crash. I’m also […]

___ 22 June 2015 Opinions

Most Agreeable Moments – Speedball 2

The road to the top is a long and bloody one for Brutal Deluxe.  Week after week the […]

___ 11 May 2015 Most Agreeable Moments

I rang in Y2K with a video game chauvinist. And then waved goodbye.

I spent the evening of 31 December 1999 playing Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, by far my favourite […]

___ 31 December 2014 Opinions

Warioware is my Nintendo nostalgia, my amiibo achilles heal

I’m as surprised as anyone that I’m playing not one, but two versions of Super Smash Bros.  I […]

___ 30 December 2014 Amiibos

Racing to 31: 31 racing game greats – #24 Super RC Pro-Am (1992)

It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old […]

___ 6 November 2014 31 Racing Game Greats

Racing to 31: 31 racing game greats #25 Super Cars II (1991)

It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old […]

___ 6 November 2014 31 Racing Game Greats

Racing to 31: 31 racing game greats – #26 Super Grand Prix (1991)

It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old […]

___ 3 November 2014 31 Racing Game Greats

Racing to 31: 31 racing game greats – #27 Nitro (1990)

It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old […]

___ 2 November 2014 31 Racing Game Greats

Racing to 31: 31 racing game greats – #28 Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (1990)

It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old […]

___ 1 November 2014 31 Racing Game Greats

Racing to 31: 31 racing game greats – #31 Stunt Car Racer (1989)

It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old […]

___ 30 October 2014 31 Racing Game Greats

The Greenhouse Effect: how Game and Watch helped me heal

While I have infinite memories about growing up with Nintendo handhelds, I don’t have that many video game memories that […]

___ 15 October 2014 Opinions

How Yoshimitsu helped fighters keep their crazy at the dawn of a new age

Fighting games have come to represent some of the craziest examples of gaming canon around.  In the 90’s […]

___ 24 August 2014 Opinions

Retro throwbacks can learn a lot from Regular Show’s treatment of nostalgia

Regular Show is like Clerks for kids, and I am always surprised by how clever its writing is. Like […]

___ 29 July 2014 Opinions

If you don’t remember the 90’s, you don’t know the meaning of hype

Hype is an absolutely amazing and wonderful thing that is sure to play into your future nostalgia in […]

___ 3 June 2014 Opinions

Beware the retrogaming illuminati (and don’t let video games define you)

When I was at school I had a pretty powerful kick on me.  When not out on the […]

___ 8 May 2014 Opinions

GUEST POST: Nostalgia is a thing that is sold at Hot Topic

Following on from my post on the Americanisation of gaming history I invited fellow games enthusiast, writer and […]

___ 15 April 2014 Opinions

The great videogame retCON: how the internet has Americanised our gaming history

Or Americanized…. I never owned a Nintendo Entertainment System and in fact only knew a handful of people […]

___ 10 April 2014 Opinions

30 Years of Video Games – Jurassic Park III: Park Builder (2001)

I’m waving goodbye to my 20′s and to celebrate I’m counting down 30 games from the last 30 […]

___ 16 November 2013 30 Years of Video games

30 Years of Video Games – Kessen (2000)

I’m waving goodbye to my 20′s and to celebrate I’m counting down 30 games from the last 30 […]

___ 15 November 2013 30 Years of Video games

30 Years of Video Games – Rollcage (1999)

I’m waving goodbye to my 20′s and to celebrate I’m counting down 30 games from the last 30 […]

___ 14 November 2013 30 Years of Video games

30 Years of Video Games – Vigilante 8 (1998)

I’m waving goodbye to my 20′s and to celebrate I’m counting down 30 games from the last 30 […]

___ 13 November 2013 30 Years of Video games

30 Years of Video Games – Destruction Derby (1995)

I’m waving goodbye to my 20′s and to celebrate I’m counting down 30 games from the last 30 […]

___ 11 November 2013 30 Years of Video games

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