Burger Time – classic “holy shit you guys, I smoked an entire 8 Ball last night and had a great idea for a game – crazier than that idea about the bubble-blowing dragons”. You play a little chef (arf) and have to avoid the various demented food trying to kill you. There’s even a silly […]
Rastan is a side-scroller platformer with swords; Super Mario, but starring Conan the Barbarian instead. It’s a great little game, and was ported over to the 8-bits at the time (I had this on the Master System). It’s a cool example of arcade games of the period; fluid and colourful but not hugely technical, and […]
Arcade games should not be involving because of the very nature of arcades; they are quick fixes of adrenalin-inducing entertainment, and are meant to be fairly instant games. Return of the Jedi, however, takes the piss. There are so man things wrong with it that I guess the cabinets are very rare simply bcause no-one […]
When they “cartoonised” Ghostbusters, why did they have to call them the real Ghostbusters? Was there the risk that people wouldn’t realise that the Ghostbusters cartoon, featuring all the characters from the film and the same green Slimer ghost AND the same “No Ghosts” logo, wouldn’t be associated with the Ghostbuster films? Were they afraid […]
Every Sunday, I get retro. I boot up some emulators (or even the real thing if time permits) and replay some of the more obscure games of yesteryear. Shackled (1986, Data East) Shackled can be considered a dumbed-down version of Gauntlet; it’s the same viewpoint, is a multiplayer (although only two players compared to Gauntlet’s […]
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