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Jelly Boy: Jelly-Based 2D Platformer With Malleability
Wobbly! Jelly! It’s wibbly. It’s wobbly. Clearly, these are the prerequisites for the ideal SNES platformer game in 1995. And that’s why we got this weird thing from the now defunct American developer...
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Olympic Summer Games: Button Bashing Madness in the 16-Bit Era
Button mashing time! Back in our day, there used to be these sporting games that revolved around button bashing. They were popular in arcades and on home consoles such as the SNES and Mega Drive....
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Alien 3: Multi-Platform Romp Adapted From Dodgy ’92 Film
It’s not free. It’s just three. While Alien 3 (1992) was a bit of a famous disaster as a film, the game spinoff worked pretty well and was good fun. We rented it from Blockbuster back in the day and...
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Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure is Bogey-Based Fun
Bogeys! Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure, eh? With a title like that, there was no way we weren’t going to review the thing! Not that we’d ever heard of the 1994 title before, which launched on...
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Waterworld on the Virtual Boy: The Blood Red Weirdness Game
Water! Kevin Costner’s Waterworld is a strange old film. The biggest budget in cinematic history at the time (1995), it was met with a weird reaction. The same goes for various Waterworld video games...
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SD F-1 Grand Prix (グランプリ): The Japan Only SNES F1 Racing Romp
The box for the Japan only SNES game. SD F-1 Grand Prix was a Japanese exclusive back in October 1995, arriving right at the end of the Super Nintendo’s life. Riffing off Nintendo’s Super Mario Kart...
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Flynn: Son of Crimson: The Pixel Perfect Platformer
Here’s an unexpected delight! Flynn: Son of Crimson is an excellent platformer from Californian indie team Studio Thunderhorse. With its lush pixel art style and orchestral soundtrack, we dug this one...
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The Lion King: ROAR! Fun 1994 Game Tie-In for Disney Thing
You may know Lion King as that photorealistic Disney film adaptation in 2019 or that 1994 animated film and all that. And that’s true. But there were also a bunch of video game tie-ins back in 1994 to...
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F-Zero 99: Epic Battle Royale Fun in SNES Classic Revisited
What we didn’t expect from Nintendo’s game announcements this week is a reimagining of the SNES classic F-Zero (1990). But here’s F-Zero 99 on the Nintendo Switch, a brilliant battle royale racing...
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Donkey Kong Country Music: Melodic Vibes From the Iconic SNES Trilogy
The Super Nintendo’s Donkey Kong Country trilogy has a legendary reputation for two reasons. Being bloody epic, whilst also boasting some of video gaming’s very best soundtracks. British composer...
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The Inspiring SNES Donkey Kong Country Trilogy (a gamer’s notes)
Between November 1994 and 1996, British games developer Rare completed the iconic DKC trilogy on the Super Nintendo. Any gamers around at the time know what that means. These titles are legendary and...
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