The Yakuza franchise is many things to a lot of people, over the top organised crime melodrama, a rhythm action game, business simulator, brawler etc, so its been great to see the series grow from struggling to get released outside of Japan back on the PS3 to being the highlight of many peoples release schedules. […]
Tag: SEGA
“Playing” Akira (Mega Drive prototype)
Over Christmas 2019 the videogame preservation website The Hidden Place uploaded a ROM dump of a prototype for SEGA’s Mega Drive of an unreleased Akira tie-in, regular readers and those who know me are well aware of my love for Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga and movie, so it comes as no surprise that I had to […]
#ThrowBackThursday ESWAT: City Under Siege
Retro Game Club this week, this time the group voted to play a SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis game I’d never heard of before: ESWAT:City Under Siege. This Mega Drive version is based on the arcade game Cyber Police ESWAT that also saw ports to a variety of other systems including SEGA’s own Master System. As mentioned […]
#ThrowBackThursday: Phantasy Star Online
I often use these #ThrowBackThursday posts to reminisce about some of my favourite games that I’ve played since I first picked up a controller, occasionally I’ll cover something old that I’ve been playing recently (usually if its something I’ve picked up cheap on PSP or its one of the Retro Game Club games, which I’ve […]
#ThrowBackThursday Panzer Dragoon Orta
Back when I first bought my original XBox, sometime in 2003, there were two games I wanted for it more than any others, the first was Jet Set Radio Future, the other was Panzer Dragoon Orta. I’d only ever played a tiny little bit of the original Panzer Dragoon on the Saturn (it may have […]
#ThrowBackThursday Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
For May the Retro Gaming Club played through the original Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse. Some played the Master System version, some the Game Gear release and others the Mega Drive one. Some played all three, I played the Mega Drive one via emulation on my PSP. Castle of Illusion was developed and released […]
#ThrowBackThursday Rocky
Back in the early 90s I so wanted a Mega Drive, a bunch of my friends had them (as I mentioned last week when I covered Sonic 2) and I really wanted one too. I’d had an Atari (a 2600 junior) that a much older cousin had given me that I played alot of Centipede on, and […]
#ThrowBackThursday: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
After the recent trailer for the godawful looking Sonic the Hedgehog live-action movie, I decided that I’d go back and play what is mostly regarded as the best Sonic game, Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Yes, I know theres an argument to be made that the best Sonic is Sonic 3 & Knuckles, but I’ve never […]
#ThrowBackThursday – OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
I’m a bit of a racing game nut, one of my earliest memories of playing a game was visiting a department store as a kid on the annual trip with my Aunt to visit Santa and seeing and playing a Super Nintendo demo pod with F-Zero running. Prior to that I had one of those […]
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 […]