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…
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…
The Sonic Head-Jog is a weekly look back at the great Sega soundtracks of the past thirty years, from simple chiptune pieces to full-blown orchestral works. Where possible, Youtube links are provided throughout to let you hear the music for yourselves. Some you will know, others you may not but whether…
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World is the sixth game in the tremendously popular Alex Kidd series. Developed as a parody of Shinobi series, the game extends its happy hand to you, coddling players through its delightful and brief little world. The game opens in a burst of color with Alex…
Being a huge Sega nerd I get ragged on a lot because of how over the top and badical Sega’s image was in the Genesis era. People forget Sega came to prominence in a time when The Ninja Turtles and Vanilla Ice ruled the world. We look back at the…
I’m a Goozex fiend. There, I said it. It’s not difficult to accept or embarrassing to admit, especially now that the newly added retro trades have allowed me to snatch all those old Genesis and Dreamcast games that the plastic Ninja Turtles wallet of my youth couldn’t even begin to…
Greek mythology has always been ripe with excellent subject matter replete with battles, heroes to wage them and the perpetual damsel in distress awaiting rescue. While the circumstances may be different as well as the path leading to the climactic conclusion, the end result remained consistent for years. However many…