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Jurassic Park. Ocean Software (1993) Super Nintendo

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Van Rockingham — 6 Comments

I am honestly upset I enjoyed Battletoads & Double Dragon so much, it had obscene difficulty but the shear variety on offer and my wussyness using the lives/warp cheat meant I was able to experience the game and actually get…

GoldenEye 007. Rare (1997) Nintendo 64

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Van Rockingham — 11 Comments

If you like retro gaming then you’ll probably be aware that neckbeards will frequently scoff about “GoldenEye being better than those them there Call of Battlefield shooty games” in a bizarrely thick unnatural West Country accent (American’s read yokel). And…

Tagged with: 007, 1997, First Person Shooter, GoldenEye, GoldenEye 007, James Bond, James Bond 007, N64, Nintendo 64, RARE, Retro Gaming, Review
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Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels. Key Game (1996) PlayStation

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Van Rockingham — 4 Comments

What better way to indulge my current two favourite hobbies of Warhammer (Horus Heresy) and Retro Gaming than to play a game that manages to combine the two? Back in 1996 I temporarily collected Warhammer 40k and owned this game,…

Turok 2 : Seeds Of Evil. Acclaim Entertainment. (1998). Nintendo 64

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Scrambles — 1 Comment

The easy (read : sane) thing to do when revisiting N64 shooters would be to review Rare’s seminal 1997 classic, Goldeneye, surely? Well, yes, but the thing is : Goldeneye is awesome and we all know it. At the time…

Tagged with: 1998, Acclaim, Acclaim Entertainment, Cerebral Bore, First Person Shooter, N64, Nintendo 64, Retro Gaming, Review, Seeds of Evil, Turok, Turok 2
Posted in Nintendo 64