Category: Retro
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Mortal Kombat – Finished it?
“Was the first ever Mortal Kombat a Flawless Victory or are your memories deceiving you? In this episode Phil and Chris try to remember playing Mortal Kombat back on the Sega Megadrive / Genesis, and the Super Nintendo. It was amazing right? Realistic digitized sprites, martial arts action, special “fatality” moves, blood, gore… must still…
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#21: Bruce Lee – Best Fight Game Ever?
Is Bruce Lee on the ZX Spectrum the best fighting game ever, the top of the beat ‘em ups, or is it just a platform game with some brawler elements? Not just on the humble Speccy, it also appeared on the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari, MSX and Apple 2. Did it get converted to…
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#17 Deathchase – Vehicular Combat
Speeder bikes in disguise! Join Phil and Chris as they try to remember this ZX Spectrum classic – Deathchase!
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Speedball- it’s brutal!
Its hard to believe that the Bitmap Brothers weren’t sitting around in their pajamas eating cereal on a Sunday morning back in the 70s whilst watching Rollerball, thinking, “one day, we will make computer games based on this film on a computer that has yet to be invented” Obviously, none of that happened. The Bitmap…
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Not the movie! We, if you are of my era, are getting to that age, who am I kidding?…we are that age! The age when every day an anniversary of some amazing, influential or simply well remembered and loved game crops up in your various online feeds. Gaming is such a new…hobby? That’s what we…
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What is `Retro`?
A quick Google (or Excite as I think I used in the 90s) search for the term retro brings forth the result… Accompanying it is a load of pictures of women wearing clothes from the 1960`s and a load of links to retro toy shops, not a mention of our beloved hobby/passion (passing interest) of…