The other day my eight-year-old asked me why Sonic looks "weird" on our modern TV, and I realized we'd been playing the Blue Blur through some dodgy composite cables that made him look like he'd been dipped in vaseline. That got me digging through my emulation setup again, because let's be honest—original Mega Drive hardware is brilliant, but it's also thirty-odd years old and sometimes you just want to play Sonic 2 without worrying about…
The red and white logo hit differently back in '91. I remember staring at it on the box art at our local Currys, that bold GENESIS text looking like it belonged on a spaceship rather than sitting next to the tired-looking Master System games gathering dust. My mate Dave had gotten one for Christmas—lucky sod—and when I first saw that logo boot up on his telly, I knew Sega meant business. This wasn't the cute,…
Sometimes I catch myself humming the Green Hill Zone theme while doing the washing up, and my wife looks at me like I've finally lost it completely. But that's the thing about Sega – their music just burrows into your brain and sets up permanent residence. I was never really a "sides" person during the console wars; I mean, I had my Mega Drive first, sure, but I'd sneak round to my mate Dave's for…
# The Last of Us Part 2 Right, I know what some of you are thinking. David doesn’t write about narrative adventure games, he’s the bloke banging on about PCB boards and monitor calibration on cabinets nobody under thirty has heard of. Why’s he covering a Naughty Dog game that made half the internet lose its mind in 2020? Carl asked me to do this one specifically because everyone else on the team has an…