Introduction Let’s dig around our dump and look for something a little different. Past the discarded NES consoles, past the buried 2600s, to the section marked Coin-Op. It is here that we find the discarded cabinets of yesteryear. Once these machines would have brought joy to those who played them with a simple coin […]
Introduction It’s 1992 and a bottlenose dolphin has just become one of the world’s best-known protagonists of a video game. Not one that has been anthropomorphised like a particular blue hedgehog, but one that lives happily in the ocean with the rest of his pod quietly going about their dolphin business. One that will […]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mtqgk-8f85aa In this episode we stop back in 1994. Blur and Oasis were slugging it out for number one spot in the charts. Noel’s House Party was in full swing, and a stealth classic was making its debut on the PC and Amiga – the name of this phantom power-puzzler? Beneath a Steel Sky, the […]
Introduction For many people in the early nineties, the console was king. It was the only way to game… the only way for the masses to enjoy playing video games in the comfort of their own homes. But there was a fringe contender that was slowly creeping in on the console market’s turf – the […]
Introduction If you were told that a launch title for a brand new console was going to be a flight simulator, you’d probably laugh. Flight simulators have always had that niche placement in the gaming world. Sure, you could class them as a game, but their drive for accuracy separates them above and apart from […]
Role-playing video games have been with us almost as long as we’ve had computers. From the simple games of the 1970s that ran on Mainframe, to the modern day games we play today, games so detailed that we no longer need to fill in the gaps with our imagination. The RPG genre is a staple […]
Back in the nineties, wrestling games on console were king. From the early players like WWF Wrestlemania on the NES, all the way through to WCW Nitro on the PlayStation, we were treated to a slew of great grappling games that allowed us to have a little part of the spectacle of the ballet that […]
