July 2010

Features

Freaky Fridays: Zombie Revenge

Zombie Revenge, released in arcades and for the Sega Dreamcast in 1999, was a game behind its time.  On a declining system, the game was a spin-off from House of the Dead and was originally titled “Blood Bullet: The House of the Dead Side Story.”  While that doesn’t exactly roll…

Features

MegaDriving: Road Rash

Before I get into this week’s post, I just wanna thank everybody who gave me feedback on last week’s piece. As I’ve constantly said, I’m not any sort of a writer, so seeing such a positive reaction really made my week. Here’s hoping I can keep living up to expectations…

Features

Happy 15th Birthday, European Saturn!

July 8th 1995 was the launch date of the Sega Saturn in Europe, and while I may be blasphemous enough to cram my Master System with spaghetti, there’s no way I’m stuffing birthday cake in my Saturn’s CD drive. So I’ve done the next best thing and borrowed the Saturn launch issue of…

Reviews

RetroReview: Die Hard Arcade

Originally titled Dynamite Deka, for the Japanese release, the US/EU version of this Saturn title was tweaked when the game was pretty much completed for the American release to capitalise on the resemblance towards the action movie. Namely, the main character bears a striking resemblance to John McLane and it…