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Origin seems like it might be a tricky one, but I'd hope a standard edition might be possible, though.

The one I'm thinking of was a 'straight' version of American football. It was pretty good in that it dispensed with the stop-and-start nature of the sport it was based on (NFL league football is SO boring to watch) but didnt skimp on the tactics - you could select plays before each quarter and...

The only sports games I remember ever actually holding my attention for more than five minutes were Blades of Steel on the Gameboy (which actually required a modicum of skill to play and didn't feel like you were just stabbing buttons in hopes of doing something positive) and some of the NeoGeo...

If I remember rightly, the Master System and Megadrive versions of Kick Off went under the title 'Super Kick Off.' Because apparently everything on consoles is super. Except sports games. I've never understood the appeal. Why play a digital version of something you could have more fun playing...

Now that you've said that, I really want the sound effects you mention to be the sampled speech. 'POWER! UP!' and 'WISE FWOM YAW GWAVE!' belong in EVERY soccer game, as far as I'm concerned. I've had a few requests to review Altered Beast. Holy cow... I wonder if people are ready for what I'd...

I remember that cartridge! Always seemed odd to me how you had two vaguely related games with a sports theme and then Columns. Mind you, maybe I'm making a wrong association there. Both Columns and Super Hang-On had an arcade pedigree. World Cup Italia 90, as I recall, was a pretty awful...

So, as we bow out of 2018, I *just* managed to finish my first run of reviews with a look at COLUMNS on the Sega Megadrive. That's season one all done and dusted. Season two is planned for March 2019.

It definitely has that effect. I'm not going to say anything spoilery about it, because I genuinely think it's one of the cleverest and most satisfying endings I've seen to a story in ANY medium in a long, long while, and I'd really like folks to experience it for themselves. Considering I...

I finished Hellblade - Senua's Sacrifice on PS4 a few hours ago. We can add this one to the short list of video games that have made me cry real, watery (but , I hasten to add, very, very manly) tears. A very surprising game for me on a few levels. I'd seen a demo at a friend's house when it...

Just spotted the statement by AL. I've said this a lot over the last few years, but... Andrew, Jeremy and co. are a bunch of class acts. REALLY sorry to hear about the uncomfortable position they've been put in. I don't think anybody could reasonably ask anything more of them, given the...

This week's update is less about games, and more about YouTube being a bag of utter dicks yet again. This video discusses the recent 'spam accounts purge,' which actually appears to have done a great deal of harm to some honest channels that lost genuine active subscribers. Oh and an FYI...

I truthfully pity anybody who gets Super R-Type as an introduction to the series. It's not that the game isn't enjoyable - it just fails to capture the brilliance of the series. The only other R-Type I've come across that left me feeling similarly disdainful was R-Type Leo, which tellingly...

NEW VIDEO! And a request... This week's video arrives late thanks to a series of tech muck-ups. You lot were supposed to get a Nintendo DS game review first, but it didn't meet the rigorous QC standards set in place for the channel and had to be temporarily ditched. So, this one had to be...

Cheers for the update! I'd ordered a few things this year, but been so busy that I only just today thought 'I haven't actually had anything yet.'

Maaaaaan, the feelings Ive got going inn in my feelbox over this. Kenji Kamiyama back in the director's seat - even if he's not 100% in control - is very welcome news. Shinji Aramaki... eh. He has too many duds in his body of work for my liking. And hearing that this is going to be 3DCG raises...

'Allo, me old bum tiddlers! The latest video review on my channel went up earlier tonight. And this one looks at an old Atari 2600 game - Activision's BEAMRIDER. I know it won't look like much from the thumbnail, but trust me - it's an interesting one.

Latest review is up! And it''s a look at MARBLE MADNESS on the Sega Master System [Insert obligatory 'balls' joke here.] AND NOW FOR SOMETHING EXTRA! Here's a short video about a couple of rather nice indie games I had a look at back in September at EGX. Keep your eyes peeled for these...

The latest retro review is up. And in it, I look at the dark, twisted nightmare that is PAC-MAN for the NES. How this game has never provoked media outrage, I will never fathom.

I'm changing things up a bit this week with a review of - GASP! - a BOOK! With words in it! It's still gaming related, though. Here's a look at the XCOM spin off novel XCOM 2: RESURRECTION. Oh and a quickie reminder: Youtube's notification system is borked beyond belief. So if you're...

New videroo is up! After the godlike technical excess of Halo: Reach, surely the thing to do is follow it up with something even bigger and more determined to push the hardware of its host platform, right? Instead, I take a look at the Nintendo Gameboy version of BATTLESHIP. And I susrprise...