Category: Review

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The Point of No Return…

  • _jt
  • February 19, 2025

The PC-FX by NEC was meant to be the successor to the incredible PC Engine console era. The 32-bit tower of power was announced in 1992 (5 years after the PCE’s launch) to moderate fanfare, […]

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Hey Punk!

  • _jt
  • February 4, 2025

Some of us wrinkly fools may recall a time long ago. A time before certain genre defining releases paved the way for others to gain success with the masses. What Mario brought to the platformer, […]

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Gherbert Groundhog in Save the Date

Intro It’s Groundhog Day, again! Well at least it is at the time of writing. Hopefully it isn’t again tomorrow or I’ll have to try to convince Andie MacDowell to fall in love with me […]

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Lil’ Ninja

Intro Ninjas eh? You couldn’t move for ’em in the 80s, they were everywhere. If you chucked a shuriken in a computer games shop back then, as well as a lifetime ban and a criminal […]

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Jail Breaking Ghosts and Slaps

I just took part in a Jail Break. It was very traumatic and I murdered many innocents but it’s OK, I was a cop so its allowed (bit political?). Of course I am talking the fictional video game Jail Break of which I just recieved the PCB from my good buddy Pinge.

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Fox ‘n’ Blocks

Intro “Fox on the run, you scream and everybody comes a-running”, so sang glam rock gods The Sweet in their 1975 hit, however in this game you won’t quite be doing much running but you’ll […]

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Gilligan’s Mine

Plot Some games have epic storylines that see you saving the planet, exploring fantasy landscapes or cleaning up a mansion full of items after an epic night on the sauce. What we have here however […]

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Black and White

Plot If you’re a Ghostbuster, you don’t cross the streams; if you own a Gremlin, you don’t feed it after midnight and if you are a Robocop, you protect the innocent, serve the public trust […]

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Dungeons of Gomilandia

Gominolo is having one of those days. You know the ones, like when you think things are going just great then the rug is pulled out from under you and you realise that instead of having repelled an invading army, they’ve tricked you by trapping you in a hellish dungeon.