Posts Tagged ‘ Throwback ’
Back in 1986 in the back of a smoky arcade in Clacton on Sea, my annoying younger sister and myself stumbled upon an arcade cabinet. The game in question was Bubble Bobble from Taito a simple but charming platforming game straight from Japan. What followed was a love for everything Taito and indeed Bubble Bobble. [ READ MORE ]
Back in 1994 I fell in love with a little game called “Mega Bomberman”. I had never played the Bomberman franchise before, and despite the sheer number of games that lie in the series now, it still stands out as the best one for me. There really is nothing like some four player Bomberman action. [ READ MORE ]
Troff and Scoff are two of my favourite characters from the Donkey Kong Country universe, purely because they don’t deserve to be in it at all. The DKC series is populated by monkeys: Apes, gibbons, baboons, whatever you want to call them. A few lizards here and there and the odd familiar animal that is [ READ MORE ]
I’ll forgive you if you do not know Dino Dini from Adam, but in 1990 he gave us one of the finest and fun football games to grace the Amiga. Before Sensible Soccer there was Kick Off 2 and it’s predecessor which oddly enough was called Kick Off. I owned number two and it led [ READ MORE ]
Back in 1992, Super Mario Kart was released unto the world, and changed the way we thought about racing games. Almost single handedly creating the “Kart Racing” genre, Super Mario Kart was the first racing game of its type – incorporating colourful characters and locales from an already successful gaming series and offensive weapons that [ READ MORE ]
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