Tag: Retro Games
Toshiba T1100 Plus: old DOS habits and a new fighting game
I bought a Toshiba T1100 Plus to play Prince of Persia and SimCity. Somewhere along the way, Ryu and Ken moved in too. The…
Dylan Dog, the Comic You Bought at the Newsstand
There’s a street in Paddington called Craven Road. Takeaways, a couple of hotels, people walking fast. I’ve been there. I went because of number…
Spectre: the game I forgot for 30 years
Some games you remember. This one I had to find again. As a kid, I’d play it on my older brother’s Mac. I remember…
When Disney games were pure magic: Mickey & Donald’s 16-bit years (1990–1995)
In 2002, during my second trip to Japan, I walked into Tokyo Disneyland and recognised it. I’d been there before, ten years earlier, on…
The SEGA Switch of 1993: Mega Jet & Nomad
Sega once put a Mega Drive on an aeroplane. It’s called the Mega Jet, and it’s one of the oddest pieces of hardware in…
Tiger LCD Games, Deep Dive Collaboration Video
This article accompanies the collab video with Lucian from The World Gamer Show. Go watch it first, or after. Either way. Tiger LCD games.…
The €10 Game Boy pile I found on a street in Rome
I was in Rome for work. On the walk back to the hotel there was one of those little street stalls you find in…
The Sharp X68000: the Legend, the Tribute, the Games
For years, the Sharp X68000 was a machine I knew mostly as a rumour. A black twin-tower monolith from Japan. Arcade-perfect conversions. Huge 5.25-inch…
Nagoya-chū Denkiyasan: A Haunted Text Adventure
There’s an electronics shop in Nagoya-chū Denkiyasan. Dusty shelves, dead monitors, a counter scarred by decades of small transactions. You wake up on its…
Street Fighter II: the game that made me sell my console. Twice.
Between 1991 and 1993, as a child, I wanted one game at home more than anything else in the world. And the machine under…