SNES WEEK: Day 2

1) Pop'n Twinbee
2) Clock Tower: Love, Peas and Piece of Child
3) Area 88 (AKA UN Squadron)

1) Pop'n Twinbee - Rob Bowker (Hankwangford) Konami owe much of their early successes to the traditional shooter and all of its variations. In the 80s and early 90s, they commanded much respect for their understanding of what made a shooter tick in both vertical and horizontal adoptions, with old school style gameplay in titles like Gradius and...

SNES WEEK: Day 1

1) A brief history of the Nintendo Super Famicom/SNES
2) Arcana (AKA The Card Master)
3) Super Mario Kart

1) A brief history of the Nintendo Super Famicom/SNES - Powerslide (Barry Ip) The original Nintendo Famicom (or NES as it was known in Europe and the US) enjoyed incredible success by capturing the imagination of the gaming masses. It helped to establish Nintendo as the dominant player in the market during the 1980s, and spawned...

A translation for the menu screens in Onore no Shinzuru Michi wo Yuke on PSP.

After pressing any button on the title screen, you'll be presented with the main menu screen.

From top to bottom, the options are: STORY MISSION MULTIPLAYER SHARE DEMO OPTIONS HELP TUTORIAL Multiplayer and demo sharing both require another PSP within range. Tutorial takes you through a basic level, explaining how to play as you go along. Selecting Story mode will display...

In May 2013, John Szczepaniak, a Bordersdown member and occasional article contributor, fired up a Kickstarter project. The aim was to get £50k to fund a 10 week trip around Japan to interview developers and relevant entities connected to the history of Japanese videogaming, as well as visiting historical locations, with the output being a book and DVD. His backers smashed through to £70k. John sent us the book and DVD, so I took a break from playing games to check out The Untold History of Japanese...

Here is a guide to the menus in:
Racing Battle C1 Grand Prix for the PS2.Quest Mode

New Game
Continue

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Quest Mode Home

Race
Shop
Garage
Information
Data
Options
Exit Quest Mode

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Shop Select

Tuning Shop
Super Auto-Bacs
New Car Dealer
Used Car Dealer

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Garage

Settings
Test-Run
Equip Car Parts
Car Parts List
Layout
Change...

Of all the quotes about the Tokyo Game Show, all the controversial statements (Keiji Inafune's comments about the Japanese games industry being finished), or the silly event slogans throughout the years (“Game, it's so energetic!”), the one that still sticks out to me is an unofficial one that was repeatedly stated throughout the 2008 edition, upon the wake of the (temporary) demise of E3: that TGS was “the biggest games trade show in the world”.
At that time, TGS was drunk on its own s...

In the early period of my gaming experience, if someone asked me what a game was like, the answer was simple. “It’s great. The controls are good, there is lots to do, it takes two hours to complete and it takes four minutes to load. I didn’t encounter any bugs.”
Fast forward to today, and if someone asks me what a game is like, the answer is less simple. “It was good when I played it, but they keep changing it. I think it was rushed. There were bugs everywhere, but they might have fixed...

Masters of Doom by David Kushner is a thorough and detailed account of Id Software's history from their early days writing titles for the periodical Softdisk, through their formation and early distribution partnership with Apogee Software, right up to the pinnacle of Quake's heydey with the release of Q3: Arena. Along the way the writer takes you on the roller-coaster journey that was the first person shooter genre in the 90s, including everything from the start of the competitive scene, early companies...

If you are interested in videogames, you may have heard of importing. Bordersdown is a premier website for gamers who are interested in playing games from abroad (Imported consoles are also called NTSC consoles, hence the site's original name "NTSC-UK"). Importing grew from a tiny collective to a thriving scene, even if the need has dropped off with the advent of HD and global releases. But why? Why do people import videogames to the UK in the first place? What are the benefits? And is it for y...

Here are some basic translations to help players deal with the menus in the new Monster Hunter 4 on Nintendo 3DS. Basic Yes/No: 決定 - Confirm 戻る - Return Name - Gender Skin colour - Inner (style/colour) Face - Make up Eye colour - Hairstyle Voice Room Service Gallery Download Contents Item Box Store Item Take item Item set Combine/sell item(s) Change/sell equipment Equipment sets Change body (i.e. reconfigure base body) Take item ...