SNES WEEK: Day 5

1) Contra 3: Alien Wars
2) Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium
3) F-Zero

1) Contra 3: Alien Wars - Jamie Davies (Spatial101) Aliens. Never the friendliest bunch are they? Take those in the Contra series. Despite being driven back, time and again, by Earth's mightiest heroes, they always seem willing to come back for another try. In Contra 3:The Alien Wars, 27th Century Earth is caught with its pants down and the evil alien overlord...

SNES WEEK: Day 4

1) Super Aleste
2) Ganbare Goemon - Yuki-Hime Kyushutsu Emaki!
3) Soul Blazer

1) Super Aleste - John Henderson (Kubrick) Ah, the Nintendo Super Famicom. Without doubt a brilliant machine, and one that will instantly evoke fantastic memories for anyone who ever owned one during it's heyday. However, it's a format that is often overlooked & glossed-over whenever talk of 2D shooting games enter the conversation. The purists will tell y...

SNES WEEK: Day 3

1) Raccoon Rascal
2) Super Castlevania 4
3) Umihare Kawasi

1) Raccoon Rascal - Simon Dominguez (Nyarthmaul) If we had the budget for a time machine here at Bordersdown, we know exactly what we'd do with it. We'd to back to early 20th century America and visit the great author Sterling North just after his mother died to offer him some words of consolation. "Sterling," we'd say. "Things seem bad right now, but take heart. One day you...

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...

Passion. Both inside the game and within the walls of Smilebit, passion dominates and decrees. In their three (to date) Xbox releases, an energy and fidelity radiates from the code, glisters on the screen and makes the fingers twitch. Passion. Smilebit has it, and now Panzer Dragoon Orta has it. It hits you in waves.
Jet Set Radio Future and Gun Valkyrie have been dismissed as noble (and, sometimes, ignoble) failures by the press and many gamers. Perhaps expectation was too high, or Sm...