[Game of The Week] Week #27 – Need for Speed Hor Pursuit Limited Edition

Hi folks! Here we are again with another entry, the twenty-seventh of the [Game of the Week] column and this time the game featured is Need for Speed Hor Pursuit Limited Edition for Xbox 360! Developer: Criterion Games Publisher: Electronic Arts Platforms: GWindows, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 (pictured) Genre: Racing Release Date: November 16th (US),…

[Forbidden Games] Lorna

Welcome to the thirty-fifth entry of this column in which I review forbidden (and forgotten) retro games with adult contents. A lot of the games that will be revisited here will have, as well as adult themes, some contents that may offend somebody. But please remember, we are here just to re-discover something rightfully forgotten,…

[Happy Birthday!] Grand Theft Auto 2

Hello old games lovers, Today we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the least famous among the GTA “brothers”, the second one, which came out today, October 22nd, 1999. Among all of the chapters of the series this is probably the least fascinating even though it tried to renovate the game mechanics introduced in teh first…

[2019 with DOS games] Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress / Unreal / U.F.O. – Enemy Unknown

Hello guys, This is the twenty-first entry of the [2019 with DOS games] column, a mini-compendium of the mandatory MS-DOS games ever released. For a big part of my life I’ve been a PC games player and I had tons of old games to play with back in the 90s. This is my homage to them….

[Editorial] Guess what’s next on I ❤ Old Games! – 20/10/19

Hello guys, Even last week I’ve succeded in buying at least one game and this time is Mystic Quest for SNES, a game I was looking for and that I finally I found at a decent price. It’s been also a week of purchases from GOG.come where I got the original Alone in the Dark…

[Game of The Week] Week #26 – Haunted Halloween ’86

Hi folks! Here we are again with another entry, the twenty-sixth of the [Game of the Week] column and this time the game featured is Haunted Halloween ’86 for Xbox One! Developer: Retrotainment Games Publisher: Retrotainment Games Platforms: Windows, Xbox One (pictured) Genre: Beat ’em Up, Platformer Release Date: March 28th, 2017 Haunted Halloween ’86…

[Review] Dragonfire

REVIEW # 00000000 01011100 Dragons rule! The young Prince hopes to defeat them – but first he must reclaim the King’s treasures

[Happy Birthday!] Galaxian

Today we’re in fron of the eldest son of Space Invaders. Released in October 1979 for the arcade market and therefore a brand new forty-year-old, Galaxian is one of the major success in the story of the coin-op machines as well as the first game to make use of an RGB color scheme. Numerous ports…

[Game of The Week] Week #25 – Resident Evil

Hi folks! Here we are again with another entry, the twenty-fifth of the [Game of the Week] column and this time the game featured is Resident Evil for PS1! Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Platforms: Genesis/Mega Drive (pictured) Genre: Beat ’em Up Release Date: August 11th, 1992 (NA), 1993 (EU) You don’t forget your first Resident…

[Happy Birthday!] Doom II: Hell on Earth

Doom. Four letters, a genre. By the time the first id Software game came out the worl of FPS and the video games world in general would never be the same. When Doom II came out one year later in 1994 not as a shareware product anymore but as a full featured game for id…

[The 2600er] Double Dragon

Copyright: 1989 Release Date: October 1989 Developer: Technos Japan Corporation Publisher: Activision Deisgner: Dan Kitchen (programmer) Code: AK-050 Description If you’re thinking “how the hell they did manage to fit an arcade experience like Double Dragon into an Atari 2600 cartridge???” you’re probably a normal person who can’t believe they ported this game on the…

[Editorial], So, we’ll have a PS5 for Christmas

Here we are again, This time the news is confirmed and after the rumors we’re hearing since almost a year, Sony in an official statement has announced that for Christmas 2020 we’ll find under the tree the new flagship of the japanese firm whose name will be, with great creativity, PlayStation 5; a new war…