#oneaday Retro Review: Incredible Crisis

Thank heavens for wierdo Japanese videogames, and as far as wierd Japanese games being released in the West go, there aren’t many as odd as 2000′s Incredible Crisis. Essentially a collection of mini-games, Incredible Crisis tells the story of a families attempts to make it to their grandmother’s birthday party without allowing her to realise [...]

#oneaday Retro Review: Re-Volt

I was going to cover Bizarre creations’ Fur Fighters this week, but I was unable to give it the time it deserved due to decided to have a “quick blast” on this game. I’ll try and get Fur Fighters done for next Sunday. Anyway, yeah, its another racing game, this time its Re-Volt a game [...]

#oneaday Retro Review: Snatcher

Many many people know about Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid, alot of those are aware that that wasn’t the first game in the series, and far too many people aren’t even aware that the director has worked on projects outside of the batshit mental world he’s created for the Snake family tree. This is mostly [...]

#oneaday Retro Review: Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament

Racing games from the 16-bit era (and for those not educated in such terminology that would be the SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis) tend to age pretty well, this is probably due to their simplicity and how games were pretty much made to just plug into the console and begin playing right away. It’s a world [...]

Retro Review: Ratchet and Clank 2

I write “Retro Reviews” on bitparade each weekend nowdays, I’ll also be posting them here and on my GiantBomb blog. Its probably an odd place to be introduced to the Ratchett and Clank series, but a spell of boredom and a lack of drive to play something that fits into my normally played catergory of [...]