Sixty four thousand shades of madness – that’s berzerk for you. Berzerk is an eerie and malevolent game. Visually and conceptually simple – the stick figure player wanders around the screen from room to room avoiding stick figure robots programmed … Read more
With Street Fighter IV’s long awaited release looming, those awesome guys over at Ready-Up have managed to get an exclusive interview with Capcom’s Leo Tan – who among other things, assures the gaming world that the last six months he’s … Read more
Defender has been described as ‘quite possibly, the hardest significant game there is’ by people who know about these things. It is also the most referenced in popular culture, appearing as the subject of part six of our Pac Man … Read more
Imagine the scary music from Jaws, but played on a cardiac monitoring machine in a hospital corridor. That is the enigmatic sound of all round minimalist Asteroids, track five on our journey through Buckner and Garcia’s Pac Man Fever album. … Read more
Frank Krmel, of Atlanta, Georgia and Shigeru Miyamoto of Kyoto, Japan are unlikely to find themselves mentioned together in any sentence other than this one. Miyamoto spent his childhood exploring the lakes and caves with which the land around his … Read more
It was quite hard picking the next retro review. I’ve been buying some retro games from the internet, but I finally decided. I was going to review Crazy Taxi 2 actually. I’m not sure why, but it may be because … Read more
Dona Bailey was one of the only female programmers involved in gaming at the turn of the 1980s. As a representative of a gender not traditionally at ease with insects, spiders, and creepy crawlies generally, it is perhaps remarkable that … Read more
As we have often observed, the first great rush of gaming technology was hallmarked by the drive for novelty. While the rest of the industry tended to concentrate upon space battles and threats to the ever-luckless planet earth, and with … Read more
Ohio based songwriting duo Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia have always resented the ‘novelty’ tag often attached to their work by the wider musical community. They must, therefore, feel the odd twinge of we-have-kind-of-bought-this-upon-ourselves-ness when considering their back catalogue, which … Read more
Photos from October’s London MCM Expo are up, you can find them in the gallery section. It’s mostly cosplay but at least we brought a decent camera this time. We had trouble naming the characters or what they come from.. … Read more