Retro Sunday Review – Burger Time (arcade)

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 […]

Retro Sunday Review – Return of the Jedi (arcade)

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 […]

Retro Sunday Review – Shackled (Arcade)

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 […]