Games
[ Apr 7 2024 ]

Rediscovering: Override

This little 2mbit shooter from St!ng, for the PC Engine, was made from pure enthusiasm. It’s not sophisticated or overly polished, but it’s solid and great fun.





Games
[ Apr 7 2024 ]

Rediscovering: Sutte Hakkun

Another SuperNES platform game in the Rediscovering series. This time, it’s Sutte Hakkun (すってはっくん), a Japanese puzzle game originally released for the Satellaview satellite add-on, and much later as a retail cartridge in 1999, the year of the Dreamcast.





Games
[ Apr 6 2024 ]

Rediscovering: Magical Hats

This is a repost from 2012. I remembered writing it and dug it out of the old forum database, and here – for your suffering – it is! Back in the day, c.1989 or so, I was on the cutting edge of video game technology. Around the same time North America was receiving its first […]





Games
[ Apr 29 2013 ]

Rediscovering: Metal Warriors

How is Metal Warriors, 20 years after it was released for the SNES? Still brilliant.





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[ Apr 12 2013 ]

Bonk Sprite History

Announcing the NFG book! Back in the day.





Games
[ Jan 23 2013 ]

MegaDrive Review: Herzog Zwei

Originally published on NFGGames in 2001, updated in 2008 for Insomnia and, I think, destined for the one-issue-and-dead GameGo magazine… ‘Herzog Zwei’ means “Dukes Two” in German, the title indicating not only that this is a two-player game, but that it’s also the sequel to Herzog, an even more obscure title for the Japanese MSX […]





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