Category: Review

  • Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war.

    Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war.

    Heart of The Alien on Sega CD. Frustrating. Memorable. Unfair. Sublime. Entertaining and annoying in equal measure. What a game. Having recently completed it in two parts on Twitch I may even tag it as the best of its genre.

  • Kid Niki – Ninja!

    Kid Niki – Ninja!

    For many years I have always wanted to own Flynns Arcade from the movie Tron. Show me a kid my age who didn’t! Now I have one, of sorts, its been a very interesting ride even at this early stage. Take Kid Niki, Radical Ninja.…

  • Flip This!

    Flip This!

    I found a game today that I have never seen before. Its name? Battle Flip Shot. Kinda windjammers vs pong vs side-on Breakout. Sitting on my 150-1 MVS cart for NeoGeo I went in expecting trash but that changed the second I saw it was…

  • Logic pro 2

    Logic pro 2

    Logic Pro 2 hails from Korea by Deniam Corp in 1997 making this a fairly new Arcade board. Cute and diminutive but still packing a gaming punch it is essentially Mine Sweeper in Arcade gaming form. It sits in a standard, upright cabinet and is…

  • Rainbow Islands

    Rainbow Islands

    Everyone loves this game but do I? Well… no? Hear me out before you judge me and execute! I have my reasons and you will not agree, hah!

  • Super Hang On

    Super Hang On

    We all know this game. The classic SEGA racing game has been in everything from boring Shenmue games to the excellent Yakuza series and ported to near everything. Was the Spectrum version good? Damn right it was!

  • Rampage

    Rampage

    Never really liked this game. Never enjoyed a port of this game. Will the ZX Spectrum be different? Kinda! Read on!

  • Hyper Sports

    Hyper Sports

    Damn, this game is like a fine wine, the more you play the more you want! Smooth, fast and great animation with excellent gameplay.

  • Coinz Are Mine

    Coinz Are Mine

    Yandex is a competition for various Retro Computers including my beloved ZX Spectrum so it is no surprise that a really good one finds its way in here. Coinz Are Mine is an entry from Drunk Fly and IMO should have won.

  • The Immortal Joystick

    The Immortal Joystick

    OK lets get this out of the way, this is a mini review and not an advertisment BUT he just started a Kickstarter for these amazing Joysticks so… Timing!