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Sega Rally

2nd December 20158th April 2022 Peter Ward

Published by SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Developed by Sega AM3 R&D Division Released 1995 Also For Arcade, N-Gage, PlayStation 2, Windows I first played Sega Rally at an arcade in Herne Bay around 1996, being a huge fan of both Virtua Racing and Daytona USA. I was looking forward to trying AM2’s latest arcade racer. To my great surprise it surpassed any racer I had ever played before (even Namco’s Ridge racer another favourite). The handling on the game was fantastic, much less twitching than other racers of the time and graphically the game was…

Streets of Rage 2

2nd December 201524th May 2021 Peter Ward

Published by SEGA of America, Inc. Developed by Ancient Co. Ltd., MNM Software, Shout!Designworks Co., Ltd. Released Jan 13, 1993 Also For Arcade, Game Gear, iPhone, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, SEGA Master System, Wii, Windows, Xbox 360 Right I know this is cheating doing a review on SOR when it has already been done… But on the Mega CD?! WHOOPAH! Being the avid gamer that I am, I never actually ever played on a Mega CD (they were so expensive and I was more of a Nintendo boy before they sold their soul for a sherbert dip and…

Mortal Kombat 2

2nd December 201524th May 2021 Peter Ward

Published by Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. Developed by Midway Released Sep, 1994 Also For Amiga, Arcade, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, PlayStation,PlayStation 3, SEGA 32X, SEGA Master System, SEGA Saturn, SNES Eric Bowden Review When Mortal Kombat 2 was released back in the autumn of 1994 it caused uproar in the press due to the sheer amount of violence, blood and gore in the game. So much so that the United States Senate bought in emergency legislation to deal with violence in video games, this eventually lead to games receiving age rating in…

Golden Axe

2nd December 201524th May 2021 Peter Ward

Published by SEGA of America, Inc. Developed by Team Shinobi Released 1989 Also For Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64 , DOS,iPhone, PlayStation 3, SEGA Master System, TurboGrafx CD, Wii, Windows, WonderSwan Color, Xbox 360, ZX Spectrum I first played golden axe on the Amiga 500 with a friend. We completed the game after a few days and replayed it whenever we could. I loved it, but when I eventually bought a Sega Megadrive and received Golden Axe with it I soon released that the Amiga version was the poor relation.…

Street Fighter 2

2nd December 201524th May 2021 Peter Ward

Published by Capcom U.S.A., Inc. Developed by Capcom Co., Ltd. Released 1993 Also For Arcade, Browser, Sharp X68000, SEGA Master System,TurboGrafx-16, Wii Way back in 1992 the gaming world was getting ready for the super nintendo version of the arcade classic Street Fighter 2 World Warriors. I had played the game at our local arcades and as soon as the snes version came out I bought it and loved it. But to be honest my favourite version of Street Fighter 2 is the megadrive version which was released a year later. On the face…

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

2nd December 201524th May 2021 Peter Ward

Published by SEGA of America, Inc. Developed by Sega Technical Institute, Sonic Team Released Nov 24, 1992 Also For Android, BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3,Wii, Windows, Xbox 360 I loved Sonic the Hedgehog but Sonic 2 raised the stakes with its 2 player split screen mode. I first played this sequel on a Sega promotional bus touring the country and I was wowed by it. My parents got me the Megadrive 2 and Sonic 2 pack for Christmas and I think you can work out what I spent my days playing. The visuals…

Sensible Soccer

2nd December 201524th May 2021 Peter Ward

Published by Renegade Software Developed by Sensible Software Released 1992 Also For Acorn 32-bit, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, J2ME, Jaguar, SEGA CD, SEGA Master System Despite not being a massive football fan I have played many footy games over the years and I still rate this game as being my favourite more than 20 years after first playing it. I first played Sensible Soccer when I picked up a copy of Amiga Format back in 1992 and played the demo version on the cover disc,…

Alex the Kidd

2nd December 20158th April 2022 Peter Ward

Published by SEGA of America, Inc. Developed by SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Released 1986 Also For PlayStation 3, Wii I have fond memories of this game which was built into the Master System 2. I think what mad this game so memorable was its music very addictive music I have it in my head now! Alex the Kid was a very challenging game and had different styles of levels from your traditional platform jumping level to swimming. I love the rock, paper and scissors challenges to the fast bike riding parts. Alex was a…

Crash Team Racing

2nd December 201524th May 2021 Peter Ward

Published by Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. Developed by Naughty Dog, Inc. Released Oct 20, 1999 Platforms PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, PS Vita On the face of it Crash Team Racing (CTR for short) is one of many Mario Kart clones that came out during the late 90s. However, this game is better than all of them and even improves on the Super Nes Classic in some ways. All the characters from the Crash Bandicoot universe are available to use including Crash himself, Coco Bandicoot and the evil Dr Neo Cortex. All of them handle differently…

Tekken

2nd December 201524th May 2021 Peter Ward

Published by Namco Hometek Inc. Developed by Namco Limited Released Nov 08, 1995 Also For Android, Arcade, PlayStation 3, PSP, PS Vita I have always been a massive fan of one on one beat em ups, from the moment I first played Street Fighter 2 in the arcades. For me back in the 90s I always looked at the selection of beat em ups on a console before deciding whether or not to buy one. On the Super Nes and Mega Drive there was Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, the Saturn…