Fifteen Amiga Beat ‘Em Ups

In this article, we take a look at the genre that had a bit of a hard time on the old Commodore Amiga back in the day.

Fourteen female characters in retro games

Female characters have always been popular in games. The reasons vary from the commendable, to the seedy, to simply the ability to identify.

Here, I go over fourteen of my favourites from retro games.

Final Fight SNES – 2 player ROM hack

Yup, it finally happened!

Fixing Commodore – The Amiga Overload

Commodore – probably the most famous name in 80s home computing next to Sinclair. The legendary Vic 20 and the even more legendary C64 range set the company apart as leaders in their field, and enjoyed great success on both sides of the pond.

Later came the state-of-the-art Amiga range of home computers, and then…it went tits up!

Here, we’ll take a look at some history and a few “What if?” situations which could have happened.

Double Dragon IV Review

Technos’ Double Dragon series is legendary amongst gamers and beat ’em up fans alike, so when developers Arc System Works (who bought the rights to Double Dragon in 2015) released a rather confusingly numbered sequel in 2018, people were curious.

Genre tags – “Beat ’em up” or “Fighting game”?

What genre does Final Fight fall under?  Similarly what do you call Street Fighter II as a game?

Let’s find out!

Double Dragon NES : Review

Nintendo were on fire in the 80s and knew a good thing when they saw it. In 1987 the Double Dragon arcade game was smashing records left right and centre, so Nintendo, ever the watchful company, immediately commissioned a conversion for their (at that time) phenomenally popular console, the Nintendo Entertainment System.

The game appeared on the console only one year after the arcade game was released,  but to what end?

Defending Final Fight SNES

What can I say, I just love Final Fight!

The Sacred Armour of Antiriad Review – (Amstrad CPC/464/6128)

• This review is an archive article that I originally wrote for Retrogarden a few years ago. The original article can still be found there. 

Today we delve into the 8-bit world with the retro computer game classic The Sacred Armour Of Antiriad

Video game emulation – Don’t be a snob

A gamer I have been since the Manic Miner days, and a Gamer I’ll probably remain until I die.

Retro games (or just “games” as it was in my day) are one of my big three life pleasures (the other’s being film and music), and it’s great that technology has conveniently allowed me to play all of my old games on my PC.

However, not everyone feels the same, so why are people so resistant to emulators?