You know that feeling when you're rifling through an old cardboard box and find something you'd completely forgotten about? Last weekend I was digging through my gaming storage looking for a specific memory card, and I stumbled across this folded-up magazine clipping from 1999. Edge magazine, talking about the Dreamcast's "inevitable follow-up" and what Sega might do next in the console wars.Made me laugh, honestly. Here we are in 2025, and Sega's still making brilliant…
I’ll never forget where I was when I realised the entire social structure of Woodridge High School would change forever — it was during fourth period English class, Spring of ’98, when Scott Thompkins attempted to conceal his Game Boy beneath his desk. We were supposed to be reading Catcher in the Rye in Ms. Harrington’s class (if you can call dragging your eyes across the pages “reading” Catcher in the Rye), but I could…
# Forza Horizon 3 Timothy here, and I need to admit something upfront. I came to Forza Horizon 3 in 2026 with basically zero racing game history behind me. Carl keeps telling me I need to play Gran Turismo for “proper context” and Sam won’t stop mentioning frame data for rival AI cars like I’m supposed to understand what that means for a driving game. I don’t. What I do understand is whether a game…
Remember that kid on the school bus with the massive Game Gear who'd burn through six AAs before reaching the next stop? That was me, clutching Sega's nuclear-powered handheld like it was going to solve world hunger. The thing weighed more than my school bag and had the battery life of a mayfly, but bloody hell, it had a backlit color screen when everyone else was squinting at green-tinted Game Boy pixels.I've been chasing that…
Some games just stick to your ribs, you know? Like that perfect Sunday roast your nan made—the one where everything aligned and you're still chasing that exact combination of crispy potatoes and gravy twenty-five years later. Flashback for the Mega Drive was one of those meals for me, cinematically speaking.I first spotted it in Electronics Boutique, that glossy box art promising something different. The screenshots looked…proper. Not cartoony, not chunky pixels trying their best to…
I’m Elena, and there is a major omission in what gaming historians say when discussing the ‘golden age’ of point-and-click adventure games. They always reference the American classics — the LucasArts comedies, the King’s Quest series from Sierra, possibly even the Myst series from Cyan if they’re feeling generous. What they always miss is that during the 1990s, some of the greatest adventure games ever made were developed by European companies who knew a few…
There’s something satisfying about rooting for the underdog. That’s probably why my Sega Saturn shares pride of place on a shelf with my PS5; and why I’ll freely admit I use it more often than my spanking new Sony console. I spent three hours playing Guardian Heroes last Sunday – and my wife came downstairs, caught sight of those huge pixel sprites plastered across her 55-inch TV screen and gave me “that look”. You know…
There's something almost criminal about how good Banjo-Kazooie still feels in your hands. I was rifling through my cart collection last weekend—proper cartridges, not ROMs, the ones with that satisfying plastic heft—when I spotted that familiar yellow spine wedged between Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time. Pulled it out, blew on it (I know, I know, it's supposedly bad for the pins), and within minutes I was twelve again, watching that opening cutscene where Banjo's…
OK, fair warning, I’m going to sort of step off the Amiga soapbox for a second to defend a game that actually worked on crap. “Listen to this guy whining, why not stick to bloody Sensible Soccer and leave the console reviews to guys that understand them, eh?!” Well, here’s the deal. I grew up in the age of computer gaming then watched the slow slide into console dominance, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2…
Right, let me tell you about Full Throttle, because this one’s been sitting in my cabinet for years and I still can’t work out whether Tim Schafer was a genius or completely mad when he made it. The team’s been arguing about this one for months. Joe reckons it’s the best LucasArts adventure game after Monkey Island. Tim thinks it’s overrated nonsense that wastes Roy Conrad’s brilliant voice work. I’m somewhere in the middle, but…