I’ve had a few weeks break from #ThrowbackThursday since completing my Final Fantasy IX playthrough and thus it’s time to get back up and running again. I decided to stick with the same era but go with a completely different genre and fancied tackling the Legacy of Kain series, now why have I started with […]
Tag: playstation

Magic Castle: The “Lost” PlayStation-era Roguelike
One of the joys of the PlayStation era was, at least for me, the Official PlayStation Magazine. At this time I’d hoover up anything I could to do with gaming, which basically comprised of me pestering for a magazine every time we went to the shops, I’d buy a few every month, the main three […]

#ThrowBackThursday – Metal Gear Solid
Back at the beginning of 1999 Future Publishing released Official PlayStation Magazine UK issue 42, which was a big deal. The front cover depicted a robot ninja, the cover disc had the logo for Metal Gear Solid on it. There were other games on that demo disc, but as far as a 14 year old […]

GT Sport: 2019 FIA Manufacturers Exhibition Series. Round 5: Fuji International Speedway
https://youtu.be/cX3tvX_xcPk Qualifying position: 11th I went into this race having rage quit out of Rounds 3 and 4, mostly due to issues with my control pad that I’m only experiencing on GT Sport where the car will suddenly refuse to turn, especially going into left handers. For Round 5 I decided to switch to using […]

20 for 20: Dreamcast
This week the Dreamcast turned 20 in Japan, it wasn’t released here in the UK for almost another year and I wouldn’t get one for myself until a further year later, by which time SEGA had all but abandoned the console, but the little white system with the blue swirl (European region) left a massive […]

Nostalgia (Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture)
Today I begun, and finished, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture on PlayStation 4 that I’ve had sat on my account since it was “given away” via PlayStation Plus, I’m not normally one for these so-called “Walking Simulators” (I much prefer to lump them in with the interactive/visual novel genre but understand some keep the two […]