Regular readers will know that we’ve always had a soft spot for retro collection, and so we’ve rounded up eight of the best. Inexpensive and often containing one or two games that would cost a small fortune if purchased for their original hardware, all of the below offer decent value for money as well as …
The Master System and Game Gear both lead a long life in Europe, peacefully co-existing alongside the Mega Drive for several years. If we include the 32X, Mega CD, and Pico, SEGA did at one point circa 1995 have seven consoles on the market. And yes, that’s as crazy as it sounds. Something had to …
Following on from last week’s review of Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures and this week’s lookback at Pac-Attack, it seems fit to focus this month’s eBay round-up on Pac-Man. Unsurprisingly, a Pac-Man arcade cabinet is the highest valued Pac-Man item to have sold on eBay recently. It’s not the original Pac-Man arcade game though, but …
Namco’s iconic yellow fellow has starred in countless games over the years, so it’s no surprise that some have fallen into obscurity. Arguably, none of these are more deserving of a lookback than 1993’s Pac-Attack, a neat little puzzler with more than a whiff of Tetris about it. Although the puzzler appears to have been …
cash usa online loansBack in the early ‘90s CVG magazine ran a short article taking a look at the copious amount of then upcoming consoles. Whoever wrote it claimed that the “Play Station†(as it was then known) was likely to be pushed to the wayside by the consoles Atari, Nintendo and Sega were working …
It’s easy to forget that there were four months between the American and European Xbox launches. US gamers gained their black beast on 15th November 2001, while we Europeans had to wait until 14th March 2002. The wait wasn’t an entirely bad thing – a few more games were added to the line-up, and it …
There are many visions of the future of gaming. Your phone seamlessly beaming content to the TV screen, micro consoles, VR headsets, eXistenZ. Or maybe it’ll all be built into the telly box itself – like those horrible TV VCR combis that were popular once. Or, more relevantly, these built in consoles from the olden …
Sega desperately wanted to be perceived as being cooler than Nintendo back in the ‘90s. They had 18-rated games with blood and gore, backed with glitzy marketing campaigns. Nonsensical buzz words such as ‘blast processing’ were used in these adverts, as were renowned celebrities of the era. Part of us thinks that it’s because of …
In the ’80s and early ’90s, choose your own adventure gamebooks were quite the craze. There’s been a resurgence of sorts recently, both on paper and digitally, chiefly of the fondly remembered Fighting Fantasy series. Nintendo Adventure Books? Not so much. A remarkable 12 books were released in 1991-92, based largely on Nintendo Comic System, …
We were planning to pen a Skylanders eBay round-up to tie-in with today’s release of Swap Force, but aside a store display case and various variants selling for £100+ there isn’t much to report on. So with Pokemon fans currently trying to catch’em all in Pokemon X/Y, we’re instead going to look at various Pokemon …
Trading cards are big business these days. Back in 1992, Sega and Panini released the Sega Super Play cards. Another case of Sega being massively ahead of their time? Some might say unprofitably ahead of their time. They might be right. The 120 cards were split into several sections. First, and most excitingly, were two …
I have very fond memories of Arcade magazine, but looking over the 24 issues now, it was a curious beast. As launch editor Matt Bielby put it in his first editorial: “there are two ways of looking at this magazine.” Those were “the culmination of years of videogame mags,” or “the first games magazine to …
This might have passed you by – the Internet was pretty restrained over it – but there was a bit of a fuss around the initial Xbox One reveal, and how Microsoft gave an awful lot of attention to non-games stuff. That wasn’t always the way though. Until recent generations, multimedia was little more than …
It pleases us greatly to learn that sticker albums are still around in this day and age of handheld consoles and mobile phones that do everything. Simply owning a sticker album allowed instant social standing in the playground; long time rivalries could put aside in favour of bagging a few stickers that you and your …
With Capcom’s DuckTales Remastered and Sega’s Castle of Illusion remake leaping onto the download services soon, a classic Disney platformer revival is almost upon us. We could celebrate with a look at some of best Disney games from the ‘80s and ‘90s, but we think it’s safe to say that your average gamer knows full …