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Retrosales August Top5 PS3 Games
I'm not sure if this truth shocks you as much as it shocks me, but... we’re already in August! It's definitely not a bad situation as Retrosales ha...
Top 7 Reasons To Buy A Nintendo N64 Console For Your Kids
It's hard to believe that the Nintendo 64 is already over 25 years old! But despite its age, many people still consider it the greatest console of ...
The Sega Mega Drive — A Classic Game Console That Is Still Entertaining Kids & Adults Today
Do you remember playing the Sega Mega Drive game console? It was one of the classic game consoles many of us grew up with.
Believe it or not, this...
Which N64 games have save game batteries?
List of N64 games that use a battery
Some N64 carts use a battery to power the save game chip called SRAM (Static RAM) when not being played. Like the Controller Pak, these games will eventually need to have their save game. Here’s the list of games that use an internal save game battery and how to replace it.
Nintendo 64 — The Video Game Console That Revolutionised Gaming
For the gamer born post-2000, the landscape that the Nintendo 64 console launched into would be virtually unrecognisable. There have been drastic c...
The Top 10 Games Of All Time — As Suggested By N64 Gamers
The Nintendo 64 was an extremely popular console, with more than 33 million sold between 1996 and its discontinuation in 2002. It didn’t quite capt...
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Video Games - What Should They Remake Next?
Reboots and remasters are nothing new for gaming, but when it comes to fully fledged remakes of older games there's less examples to go around than one might find in another medium, like movies or television...
Passing The Torch
The one thing that my dad didn't show me much of as a kid was video games, which, ironically I suppose, became my biggest passion growing up...
RGB SCART TV Buying Guide
It's 2017 guys, so if you're still on the hunt for an old CRT TV to enjoy those light gun games and the vivid colours from RGB SCART with scanlines, then you better hurry up! Most of them are long gone.
Finding an old TV like this is...
The Nintendo Switch is a Retro Console at Heart
When Nintendo recently announced their latest console – a home system/handheld hybrid named Switch – gamers around the world were...
What makes an addictive game?
The first game that ever got me well and truly hooked was Tetris. I got a Game Boy for my birthday. It was the clear one where you could see all of the innards of the handheld. We loved that clear hardware back in the ‘90s. It wasn’t my first games system, but it was the first that truly got its claws into me.
My first system was a...
The Top 5 Reasons We Love Retro Gaming
Video games have unquestionably become more ambitious and impressive in recent years. When you look at the likes of The Last Of Us, it’s impossible to overstate just how far video games have come since people were playing Pong forty-odd years ago. But for all the innovations within the medium, and for all the new fangled ideas and increasingly elaborate control schemes, there’s something to be said for how much more straight forward things were in the games we played as kids....
How the PlayStation changed the game
In the early nineties Nintendo was the undisputed king of the video game industry. SEGA had tried to compete with the NES and the SNES home consoles with their Master System and Mega Drive, and while the latter did a lot better than the former, Nintendo were still firmly in first place once all the sales were counted. As the SNES and Mega Drive generation was winding up, SEGA started toying with the idea of using CDs instead of cartridges, even going so far as to release the SEGA CD add-on for the Mega Drive....
Collectors v Resellers: Can’t we all just get along?
Tens of thousands of years ago the very first humans survived as hunters and gatherers. Our ancestors went out into the wild with basic tools and weapons to hunt for meat, and they scoured the forest for fruits, vegetables and berries. At the end of a hard day at the office these simple people would sit around their camp fire dividing up the spoils of the hunt. One of the cavemen always took a little bit more food than he could eat because he figured he could then use it to trade with later. If he didn’t want to tidy up after himself he’d just bribe someone else with a little meat. Didn’t fancy going out and hunting a mammoth? Why, he’d just offer up a handful of berries for any man who’d go in his place. Once the other cavemen noticed what he was doing, some of them kicked off about it, and a never ending argument began....
The First Great Console War
Since man first learned how to fashion undergarments from fig leaves, humanity has scarcely lasted five minutes without starting a war. Whether it’s for land, for religion, or to take down a rotten egg like Hitler and his cronies, we as a people are prone to letting our fists do the talking a little too often. Commonly, resources are the reason that we go to war, whether those in power care to admit it or not. President Bush might like to tell you that he invaded the Middle East for the good of the people, but it just so happens there’s also a hell of a lot of oil over there. When there’s not enough to go around, everyone wants to make sure they get their share. As Tears For Fears once sang, ‘Everybody Wants To The Rule The World’....
What qualifies as retrogaming?
Whether or not a game or system qualifies as retrogaming is a tough thing to quantify and something that different people will often think very differently about. The ‘retro’ in the word ‘retrogaming’ is in itself a bit of a little bit misleading. Retro, by definition, is a style that intentionally evokes memories of an older style that has since gone out of fashion. So movies from the ‘30s aren’t retro, but The Artist, a recent movie made in the style of an old silent movie, is retro. If we apply the same logic to video games then something like Mega Man isn’t retro, but a game like Shovel Knight is because it pays homage to the NES games of old. Gamers have appropriated the word ‘retro’ into the new word ‘retrogaming’, but unlike the traditional definition, ‘retrogaming’ refers to playing old games rather than games that play like old games....
The Top 5 SNES RPGs You Simply Have To Play
The SNES has one of the best game libraries of any console and the RPGs available for the system are particularly noteworthy. For my money, the SNES has more great RPGs on it than any other console besides the original PlayStation, and it’s a toss up as to which of the two comes out on top. If you’re looking for some meaty role playing games to sink your teeth into then you could do a lot worse than firing up the old Super Nintendo and checking out one of these all time classic games. The Top 5 Are...
Sonic the Hedgehog: Genesis Vs Master System
In June 1991 the world got a first look at Sonic the Hedgehog for the SEGA Genesis. Prior to that point, SEGA had been positioning Alex Kidd as their chief rival to Nintendo’s Mario but it had never really caught on with Alex Kidd now being best remembered as the free game that came with the Master System II for European gamers. Sonic was different though. He was cool, he was marketable and a lot of people really loved those fast-paced platform games...
The Top 5 Forgotten N64 Games
The N64 was not the finest hour for Nintendo. The decision to stick with cartridges not only made games for the system more expensive, but also forced some publishers to take their games to PlayStation knowing that the CD format was cheaper to use and allowed them more storage. One of the most famous games to abandon Nintendo due to the hardware limitations of cartridges was, of course, Final Fantasy VII. The seventh instalment in the JRPG franchise went on to be a massive hit and was almost single-handedly responsible for selling the first PlayStation to Japanese gamers. The rest, as they say, is history. The Top 5 Forgotten N64 Games Are...
How SEGA shot themselves in the foot with the Saturn
If you’re a gamer and you’ve given more than a cursory glance to industry news in the last couple of years then you’ll probably be aware of how Microsoft well and truly bungled the launch of the Xbox One. Whether it was arrogance, hubris, or just sheer bone-headedness, somebody at Microsoft really misjudged the marketing for the latest Xbox console, and the effects of that can still be felt today as the PS4 dominates the charts month after month. Sony might be celebrating now, but they too found themselves in a similar situation last generation when they tried to launch their PS3 amid controversy, a high price point, and bad marketing...
The Dream That Will Never Die: Dreamcast Gaming in 2016
I still remember the day I found out that SEGA were going to discontinue the Dreamcast. It was early 2001 and the PlayStation magazine I was reading (we used to actually read magazines back then) covered the demise of the Dreamcast before swiftly moving on to the successes of the PS2. Thanks to those successes and the massive preference for PlayStation over the SEGA Saturn the generation previous, Sony had almost single-handedly driven SEGA out of the console business leaving them to concentrate on software only from that day forth. With the Dreamcast topping out at a meagre 9 million and change in sales and the PS2 hitting the dizzy heights of over 150 million units sold, the Dreamcast was destined to be little more than a footnote in the pages of gaming history....
Sega Mega Drive Games Random Thoughts
The SEGA MEGA DRIVE was one of the most popular consoles in the 90s and for many of us it actually was the console that marked my childhood. With amazing games, intense gameplay and cool stories, it delivered some of the most interesting moments in my life, so let’s look back at some of the games that made this console famous. This is by no means my top 10, just a warm up for that and some random thoughts written down on a lazy Sunday....