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The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

25th July 201617th March 2026 Peter Ward

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask Developed by: Nintendo EAD Developed by Nintendo EAD Released Oct 26, 2000 Overview If Ocarina of Time is an epic, then Majora’s Mask can only be described as an epic epic. This time Link, the Hyrulian Hero, struggles against time to unravel the unsettling mystery of Majora’s Mask. This mind-bending follow-up to Ocarina of Time sparkles with an artistic flair and presents a premise that shatters the foundation upon which most games are built. Perpetually reliving the same three days and three nights, Link is…

Sonic Mania coming 2017

23rd July 201624th May 2021 Peter Ward

Sonic Mania includes reimagined areas from Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Sonic CD, and Sonic The Hedgehog 3 and Knuckles, as well as brand new areas. The game is co-developed by SEGA of America, PagodaWest Games, and developers Christian Whitehead and Simon Thomley. In a statement, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka described Sonic Mania as a “passion project” that “was born out of our fans’ love of the classic Sonic 2D platform games.” He added, “This type of collaboration is a first for SEGA and we hope everyone…

Sociable Soccer fun, fast, football action – coming soon!

20th July 201617th March 2026 Peter Ward

fun, fast, football action – coming soon! Jon Hare Interview FB – http://facebook.com/sociablesoccer.com Twitter – http://twitter.com/sociable_soccer Blog – http://sociablesoccer.com NEXT FAN EVENT – GAMESCOM (17-21 August) In August we will be at gamescom in Cologne to present the game on PC, Mobile and VR to a huge crowd of European gaming fans. It’s going to be massive so please come and get Sociable with me and Jon. SOCIABLE SOCCER SURVEY We have recently been displaying the regular non VR version of the game at four different trade shows in UK, Sweden & Poland & surveying…

Super Retro games Fair

7th July 201624th May 2021 Peter Ward

Only a week now to the biggest video game sales event in West Yorkshire with over 50 sellers with the best of the entire history of gaming. 1000’s of retro games, consoles, computers, artwork, imports, accessories, toys, modified consoles, bartop arcades, artwork and much much more all for sale at the SUPER Retro Games Fair! No need to get up early for the car boot or wait for the postman from ebay! Here you can see the condition in person before you buy from the biggest and best sellers in…

The Last Ninja

4th July 20168th April 2022 Peter Ward

Published by: System 3 Developer: System 3 Released: 1987 Also for: Acorn Electron, Apple II, BBC Micro, MS-DOS The Last Ninja is a seminal action adventure game for the Commodore 64, released in 1987. It is set on the fictional island of Lin Fen in the Yellow Sea. The evil Shogun Kunitoki has all but destroyed the Ninjutsu and is set to acquire their knowledge and powers, the key to which is held within the ancient and sacred Koga scrolls. Believing there are no ninjas left alive to threaten him, Kunitoki is set to become…

North and South

30th June 201624th May 2021 Peter Ward

Overview With the famous comic strip heroes from ‘LES TUNIQUES BLEUES’ (The Blue Jackets), imagined by LAMBIL, designed by CAUVIN and published by EDITIONS DUPUIS, re-live the American Civil War with a little bit of historical realism and a lot of humour! Your objective is ensure victory for your side (North or South) by eliminating all the enemy armies. You will be controlling armies across all the combat zones of the Civil War. You may respect history or not, as you like. 1. SELECTING 1 OR 2 PLAYERS =========================== Click…

Impossible Mission

23rd June 20168th April 2022 Peter Ward

Published by: U.S. Gold Developer: Epyx / Dennis Caswell Released: 1984 Also for: Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 7800, BBC Micro, Oric Atmos, Sega Master System, ZX Spectrum When we first got our Commodore 64 back in 1986 I knew we’d chosen well, if the size of the rack of games for the system in Boots was anything to go by. I got to know a few of the other kids at school who also had 64s, one of whom invited me to his house one afternoon and…

“Popa Manuel”

20th June 201624th May 2021 Peter Ward

Interview with Popa Manuel By Jonni Hirst Popa has been behind some very recent, good retro styled Indie Games that are appearing on “Steam”, such as “Flesheaters”, and his latest game “Cosmic Dust & Rust” which is very popular amongst gamers at the moment. Popa himself designs the pixelated graphics, with his very own unique style. RGM – “What inspired you to make this game? Cosmic Dust & Rust?” POPA – I always wanted to make a Tower defence game, and whilst I was drawing some…

Moonstone: A Hard Day’s Knight

8th June 201624th May 2021 Peter Ward

Published by: Mindscape Developed by: Rob Anderson Released: 1991 Also for: MS-DOS Knights, dragons and druids you say? Sounds like a good old-fashioned medieval fantasy adventure game. Fun for all the family, right? In 1991, before the days of Mortal Kombat video games weren’t particularly bloodthirsty. This was partly due to Nintendo’s aversion to any form of violence in their games and the rise of Sonic, Mario and the many similarly cartoonish franchises that followed. Unlike consoles, games made for home computers didn’t have their content restricted by the hardware vendor…

Oddworld: Soulstorm interview coming soon

2nd June 201624th May 2021 Peter Ward

Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. are today proud to announce Oddworld: Soulstorm, now being co-developed by Oddworld’s own internal teams in California and the UK; and in conjunction with Frima Studio in Québec, Canada. A follow-up to the critically acclaimed* release of Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, Oddworld: Soulstorm picks up from Abe’s genesis and directly follows on from the overthrow of RuptureFarms and the liberation of his blighted workmates. Having defeated Molluck The Glukkon, his former boss and RuptureFarms’ meanest inhabitant, Abe soon finds himself – along with 300 newly emancipated Mudokons…