My mate Dave called me up last week, practically bouncing off the walls with excitement. “You need to get round here now,” he says, voice all breathless like he’d just discovered buried treasure. “Found my old Mega Drive collection in mum’s loft, and there’s something mental in here.” Now Dave’s the type who gets proper worked up about mint condition boxes and whether the manual’s got all its pages, so I figured we’d be looking…
Water in games used to be absolute rubbish. Proper rubbish. You’d jump in and either die instantly or swim through…
Man, I still remember the exact moment Pokemon Puzzle League clicked for me. It was summer ’01, I think, and…
Look, I’m not gonna sugarcoat this – buying a Sega CD in 1993 was one of those decisions that made…
Back in 2011 when I was first diving into retro gaming, I bought what I thought was a pretty standard…
So there I was last Tuesday night, sitting in my basement game room trying to avoid grading another stack of…
You know what’s funny about coming to retro gaming as an adult? I don’t have those rose-colored glasses that make…
Back in 2011, I was working my way through what people considered the “essential” Genesis RPGs, trying to understand what…
Proper embarrassing moment last Saturday – I’m round at my mate Dave’s house helping him clear out his loft when…
You know what’s sitting in my game room right now, looking like some kind of digital growth? My Sega 32X,…
