Yesteryear Gaming is a blog site authored by the mysterious Ocotillo Kid, a big retro game fan and avid collector. The site began life in 2012, and so far has covered both reviews of popular and obscure retro titles, as well as updates on additions to the authors own retro collection. The original photography is…
I have been playing video games since the late 70’s, and through the 80’s had various consoles and computers, but I was never really a collector. Video games were just something that I played, sometimes completed, but then just moved onto the next game. Having a “collection” of video games was never really an option…
Not a Donkey Kong Clone, Honest The BBC Micro was touted as an educational tool, if you believe Fred Harris (sorry kids). Most of us growing up in the 80’s will have used one at school, either doing some rudimentary programming, or playing with maths tools such as “Turtle”. It also happened to have a great…
Daley Thompson’s Decathlon hit the Spectrum in 1984, bringing Olympic fever into British homes. Released by Ocean Software, this game had one claim to fame above all others: it wrecked more joysticks than any other title in Spectrum history. While Track & Field ruled the arcades, Daley’s digital counterpart dominated our living rooms – and…
Atari had huge success in 1979 with the vector graphics based Asteroids, followed by 2 further classics in 1980, with Battlezone and the fantastic Tempest. Tempest was host to a number of “firsts” for an arcade game, including the first game to feature to feature a kind of “continue”, based on the player’s performance in…
Dino Crisis for me was the first introduction to the survival horror genre of gaming, and one of my favourite games on the original Playstation. Being chased by dinosaurs in a video game is nothing new of course, as fans of on the will recall, but Capcom takes the tension to a new level on…
