As I learnt through arranging my previous interview with Chester Kollschen on his game, Sam’s Journey, the Commodore 64 development community is very much alive and well. Not only that, but the concepts being brought to the table are fresh and exciting ones, not only reviving a lost…
“Game Masters” Exhibition Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Steintorplatz 1 20099 Hamburg, Germany Entrance fee: 12 Euros adults, 8 Euros student/apprentice/OAP, free for under 18s If the idea does endure that video games don’t count as an art form, the presence of the “Game Masters” exhibition in…
Gaming can be quite a time-consuming and expensive hobby. Some of us can be proud to say we’ve been plugged into the latest console since we were knee-high to a grasshopper, while others have a gap in their résumé because other hobbies came to the forefront, because…
I could end this post pretty swiftly by admitting that I do most of my games shopping on eBay. You will be amazed by the stuff you can pick up by bidding on every 3 Euro game (including postage) and waiting to see what is overlooked by other bidders,…
While attending LuheCon, a retro gaming meetup in Lower Saxony, I had the opportunity to listen in on the presentation of a platformer being developed from scratch for the Commodore 64. Having very little experience with the system beyond JonTron’s reviews of the system’s utter travesties, I was…
As I begin to write this, I am in the midst of the Christmas season, and what can be more Christmassy than a walk down memory lane. Well, perhaps booze and dressing up assorted pets as reindeer, but a nostalgia trip, including returning to your childhood home, is…
Part and parcel of moving to a new area (be it the next town over or moving halfway across the world) is making an effort to meet new people. It can be as simple as inviting your elderly neighbour round for a slice of ginger cake and a…
Those of us who were quite obsessive in our pursuit of all things Pokemon probably have a favourite “unusual” game stashed away in our collections. I almost had the crowning jewel of oddball Pokemon games; I remember going on holiday with my grandma and aunt to a typically…
The Wheel of Reviewers’ Fortune has landed this week on a PS2 game released in 2001: Kuri Kuri Mix. I stumbled upon this game when looking for cheap deals on eBay; the enticing PAL cover reeled me in, and before I knew it, I was a 23 year old woman holding a…
It’s rare that I’ve played any sort of game and one of my initial thoughts has been, “I really need to be careful while playing this”. I’m a huge fan of some modern series which are laden with jump-scares, heart-wrenching dialogue and enough blood to make David Cronenberg wretch;…
One of the questions you get asked ad nauseum as a small child is “what do you want to be when you grow up?” There are some fairly standard responses children give: vet, teacher, celebrity…caterpillar, perhaps? However, there was one specific profession that grew in popularity during…
Hailing from England – the land of tea obsession, driving on the wrong side of the road and Noel Edmonds – I’m used to a little organisation called the National Health Service. When I caught chicken pox, needed vaccinations and wound up with wonky teeth, a centrally-run…
After a chat with my sister, who is far more up-to-date with the newest fare for the Glorious PC Master Race than I am, it appears that Will Wright’s Sims franchise has long since hit its fourth incarnation, with all of the money-leeching expansion packs being shoveled our way.…
