Category: Feature
Dungeon (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Koei’s final RPG for 1983 follows the classic Ultima formula closer than any of the other games shown thus far. …
Dear Esther
When approached as a game, Dear Esther is bundled frustration. A game all wandering around an abandoned island sounds like a great …
Ken to Mahou / Sword & Sorcery (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Last week I didn’t get to do another entry unfortunately (although I technically didn’t announce this as a weekly column …
Franko: The Crazy Revenge
In the early 90s, the success of games like Final Fight, Golden Axe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the …
Home: a unique horror adventure
The protagonist of Home is a nameless guy who wakes up in an unknown house with a wounded leg. Just in the …
Edge Grinder
Edge Grinder is a game were you grind along edges. Well, technically it’s a horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up, with lots of alien …
Pyongyang Racer
There is nothing that decaying communist dictatorships love like tourism. The Republic of Cuba is a striking example of this …
Don’t Buy This: Five of the Worst Games Ever
Released in the UK on the 1st of April 1985, costing £2.50 and coming on audio cassette tape, Don’t Buy This is …
Operation Body Count
The first thing we see is “Operation Body Count” rendered in bloody text, accompanied by an unnerving broadcast about a …
