An All-Time Top 10 List of Games for the Sega Megadrive - 10 is not enough!
The Sega Megadrive (Genesis in the US) created many a playground row, mainly with loyal Super Nintendo owners who insisted that their machine was superior. In reality both were great machines, capable of producing arcade quality graphics, and each with … Continue Reading ››
There are some games which I hesitate to write about, as they are so good I just don’t feel I will do justice to them, and I put them off to another day. On this list would be the original Star Wars arcade game, as well as the classic Track & Field, neither of which … Continue Reading ››
It's been a few months since my last upate, after picking up this project in November 2011. In the last update I was assessed the state of the machine components I had been collecting and revisited the half-finished cabinet. I'm on the home straight, with much of the major construction … Continue Reading ››
Yie Ar Kung Fu started life as an arcade game released by Konami in 1985, having features that were seen for the first time in a fighting game, including multiple opponents, a health bar and multiple special moves. This really was the birth of a genre which has spawned 100's of one on one fighters, … Continue Reading ››
If you were a kid in the late 70's and early 80's it is likely you will have owned, or knew someone who owned a Grandstand handheld game. For many retro gamers this was their first real "video game" - for me it was Galaxy Invader, but games like Astro Wars and Munchman … Continue Reading ››