Iron Out The Monopoly Board
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One for Monopoly fans. Fans have been voting all month on an online hasbro poll, to save their favourite Monopoly pieces from being scrapped. Also on the agenda was suggested replacement pieces. Top of the popularity stakes for a new … Continue reading

New Addition To Classic Retro Gaming : Road Rash
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Road Rash was on of those one off games which took a classic motorcycle simulation such as Super Hang-On or Pole Position and then added a twist to it : the ability to remove your opponents from the track with … Continue reading

New Classic Gamer Profile Added : Resident Evil Remake – 2002 – Gamecube
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It is rare for a game to be a classic hit – twice, encompassing the 1996 original and the 2002 remake. Resi managed it though, a flagship game on the Gamecube, for a seriously underrated machine which never quite hit … Continue reading

Troubled GAME store bought out, what next?
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GAME, the gaming store have been bought out by Ocapita, stopping the store from closing after RBS pulled out of negotiations. GAME have had it tough lately, it began when Electronic Arts pulled out on them, taking a lucrative money … Continue reading

Oh Mummy! Another new entry to the Classic Retro Gaming Section!
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Another new entry to the Classic Retro Gaming Section, the Amstrad game : Oh Mummy. This game was a highlight of my youth on the Amstrad Home Computer in the mid 80′s. I would have all but forgotten about this … Continue reading

Review: The Thing Prequel (Spoilers)
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Watched the Thing Prequel last night. It has been out in the US since end of October but has just opened in the UK. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton. First off, … Continue reading

Things That Don’t Exist That I Always Wanted : No 3 – Domination Video Game From Never Say Never Again
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“….The game is called Domination. I designed it myself. But my problem is, I’ve never yet found a worthy adversary.” Many criticism have been levelled at the odd-one-out, black sheep of the Bond fmaily Never Say Never Again – 1983, … Continue reading

The Thing – PC Game Classic Retro Look
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With the new The Thing Prequel winging its way out in the UK this coming December, it felt about the right time to go back and have a look at 2002′s PC gaming followup to the John Carpenter paranoid horror … Continue reading

A new entry in the Classic Retro Gaming section……
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It Came From The Desert - Amiga - Cinemaware - 1989

Its really hard to quantify just what ‘It Came From The Desert’ on the Amiga actually is, its a kind of a RPG-shooter-fighting-driving-top down platformer-third person experience which came out in 1989. It has atmosphere in buckets and some of … Continue reading