2010

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…

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Not-So-Classic Games: Time Killers

Have you ever had a great idea, but in the end your idea turned out to be a really bad one? This unfortunate scenario happened to Incredible Technologies when they decided to port their arcade game Time Killers to the Sega Genesis. This game is broken on many levels, and…

News

Vanquish slated for October 21 in Japan

Famitsu has revealed in their latest issue that both the PS3 and the XBox 360 versions of Platinum Games’ Vanquish will be released in Japan on October 21st. Unfortunately, this info doesn’t come packaged with any specifics for the western release (“winter” is all we get), but VG247 did manage to…