What is the best D-pad?
Which controller has the best D-pad, and if you need to get a new controller today (in the 2020s), which one is the best...
Art For The Machines: Part VII – Burn Out Or Fade Away?
Eye Of Horus (Logotron) – To avoid some chronological confusion – Eye Of Horus actually came out...
Art For The Machines: Part VI – Unpublished Video Games Are Games Too
Gargantuan (N/A) – We naturally have to address this “parallel” chapter during a gradually more and more shaky era for the 8-bit machines. Gargantuan...
Art For The Machines: Part V – Gifts For The Bits
1988-
ECO (Ocean) – Another shift in the ongoing and never-ending evolution of video games as...
Art For The Machines: Part IV – What Next?
Infodroid (Beyond) – What is an Infodroid? The simplest explanation is that it’s a Droid that deals...
Art For The Machines: Part II – Denton Goes To The Top
Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Ocean) – While this is the video game that single-handedly and properly welded...
Denton Designs – Art For The Machines: Part I
Reading old reviews for Batman-related video games is one sharp, double-edged sword. But in this case, it’s not just about any random...
Commodore 64 – Launch titles & Must-plays: Part II
13. Kickman
Commodore
Swiftly and briefly moving over to the slightly darker side of Coin-Op conversions…
About...
Commodore 64 – Launch titles & Must-plays: Part I
Quick. Name three video game platforms that had an array of innovative and system-selling software at launch. The PS3? Xbox 360? The SEGA Mega...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Great Games: 2020 (January-June)
That’s half the year gone, already… The world have and might take a turn for the worse at every given point of no return,...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Games Of The Year: 2019
While others may wonder if they need another Madden-game or if the latest Call Of Duty is any good, you can be sure that...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Games Of The Year: 2018
And for the sake of consistency when we are “comparing” stuff year by year, there are 217 C64 games from 2018 listed in the...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Games Of The Year: 2017
The tide doesn’t turn, but instead it grows stronger… We got some really heavy and high value C64 productions this year – Some even...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Games Of The Year: 2016
Yeah, I know… Still in shock? I’d be too if I had been away from the C64 since the late 80s. The shock of...
Resurgence C64 – 10 Games Of The Year: 2015
If you search the Gamebase64 and look up how many games were released each year for the C64, we could probably all agree that...
10 Arcade Ports – “As Good As They Could Get?”
To quote Mel Croucher in the “From Bedrooms To Billions” (2014) documentary: “By 1984, certainly ’85, the parasites had moved in… Yeah? The managers,...
January MMXX: ZX Spectrum Reviews
We’re kicking off the 20s with what basically is a whole month of ZX Spectrum reviews – Every day that isn’t a Saturday or...
Amiga Games – Part V: “Innocent Pleasures”
We all have a couple
of those precious ones in the constantly bursting closet – The games
that didn’t get the same love from magazines or...
Amiga Games – Part IV: Cult Classics
And now for some classic amiga games that had and have their ardent fans. Maybe even in a fanatic sense. Some of these games...
Amiga Games – Part III: “Head Turners”
As we all know by “now”, the games that flash the brightest aren’t always the finest ones that one can dig up. And sometimes,...