Reviews of retro video games
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Super Meat Boy Review - Microsoft Xbox360 XBLA
Instead of reviewing Super Meat Boy, I’ve decided to review you. Graphics. Hmm, could be a bit better but they'll do. Lasting appeal. Largely depends on how well the graphics hold up later on. Gameplay, you like to think you’re pretty good, don’t you? You’ve completed Call of Halo 9 on Vetendary, and killed over 9,000 12 year old American boys, after all. You’re wrong though, you’re rubbish at games and Super Meat Boy is here to prove it. Overall, I award you a 1980s videogame magazine st...
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Onore No Shinzuru Michu Wo Yuke Review - Sony PSP
It took about half an hour for the catchily titled Onore no Shinzuru Michi wo Yuke to get me. I felt okay alighting a train at King’s Cross, but, standing on the escalator to the Underground, I suddenly found myself convinced that this slow descent was necessary, so that the next me would get down quicker. Not the most stable of thoughts. At Euston a lady got on (normal), sat next to me (less normal), and began to eat a yoghurt (a bit weird). I silently imagined the next her eating the tasty snack...
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Rhythm Tengoku (Heaven) Review - Nintendo GBA
Every now and then a game comes along that’s so simple in concept that it’s a wonder it hasn’t been thought of before. Indeed, when first picking up and playing Rhythm Tengoku (Paradise), it’s so devastatingly simple and right that you’ll wish someone had thought of it sooner. Made in Wario games are excellent fun. Rhythm action games are excellent fun. Idea: merge them both together for maximum awesomeness. Cha ching!
Taking the mini-game style one step further with the addition of a ... -
One Piece Treasure Battle Review - Nintendo Gamecube
One Piece Treasure Battle is not your standard crazy Jap game. No. As crazy Japanese stuff goes, this is away with the fairies. From the moment you turn the machine on it is clear that Bandai's multiplayer is aimed squarely at fans of the From TV Animation anime series, One Piece. The anime revolves around Luffy and his group of Pirates, and how their friendships develop during their searches for treasure. However, there is absolutely no need to have seen said anime to appreciate the Gamecube version...
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Alien Hominid Review - Nintendo Gamecube
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Alien Hominid Review - Nintendo Gamecube
The opening sequence of Alien Hominid shows a cute alien wrenching at the broken controls of his doomed flying saucer with accompanying amusing facial expressions. It’s actually funny, scoring instant empathy for the lead character, whose forebears have mostly been persecuted in videogames since Space Invaders. The game gives you a heavy dose of completely over-the-top side-scrolling shmup action in the style of Metal Slug, along with some added extras. Released at a bargain price, it’s the...
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Meteos Review - Nintendo DS
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Meteos Review - Nintendo DS
We want you! Save our planet! Meteos greets you with a call to enlist – a war is raging and recruits are needed to protect the system from certain doom. So once you have stopped gawking at the lush intro sequence, it’s time to start worrying about how to repel the deadly attack of the meteors and send them back from whence they came.
Puzzle games crop up a fair bit. They often have falling blocks. Meteos goes one step further and has blocks being thrown right at you. It lulls you into ... -
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Driver: San Francisco Review - Microsoft Xbox360
Reflections have been mixing things up a little with their last few Driver games. Tweaking and changing the traditional formula to try and take the series down a new path, and with San Francisco they've managed to successfully fuse the core elements that made the original titles so well loved with a novel concept that brings a lot of new options to the table. The vast bulk of the proceedings actually play out within cop-lead Tanner's coma-induced dreams, as the player attempts to unravel crime boss...
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Loopop Cube: Lup * Salad Review - Nintendo DS
It’s tempting to call Loopop Cube: Lup * Salad DS the best game for public transport since Guru Logic Champ hit the Game Boy Advance. High praise indeed. The small, colourful, self-contained puzzles lend themselves almost perfectly to ten-minute bursts of play while you travel from A to B. However, as you obliviously speed through B for the eighth time, completely immersed in a puzzle, you’ll curse the day the suggestion was ever made.
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DJ Max Portable Review - Sony PSP
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DJ Max Portable Review - Sony PSP
While in the west, the PSP’s software library has been plagued by sub-standard ports of home console releases and faceless racers, in Japan the system has seen a steady stream of intriguing rhythm-action titles. From the bonkers Gitaroo Man Live! and Taiko no Tatsujin Portable, to upcoming releases such as the return of PaRappa the Rappa and a portable adaptation of Studio 9’s Pump It Up EXCEED, there’s enough variety to rock the socks of even the most hardened of rhythm-action veterans. DJ...
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Mushihimesama Futari ver 1.5 Review - Microsoft Xbox360
The fact that the Xbox 360 has somehow bizarrely become the shmup connoisseurs' console of choice is well documented. Cave, Treasure and G.rev have taken to the console in a big way and have released a good number of retail games for the system after being rebuffed by Microsoft when trying to release them on XBLA. Unfortunately, though, these games have existed as the expensive purview of importers, not only requiring a Japanese console to play them on, but also carrying a higher than average price...
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