Tag: Rating: 6

  • Syndicate (Jaguar)

    Syndicate (Jaguar)

    (Review archived from October 8, 2014) This is the second in a series of resurrected “archived content” style reviews which were originally part of a Random Game Review Project I participated in a number of years ago.  I’m on vacation during mid-July, so raising these moldy-oldies from the dead seemed like a good (i.e. lazy)…

  • Phantasy Star II (Genesis)

    Phantasy Star II (Genesis)

    As retro-gamer gamers, we often scoff at the idea the idea that a game “has aged poorly”.  One typical response is to point out how many modern games ‘coddle the player’, and ‘hold their hand’ through every tiny challenge, free of any repercussion from failure.  In short, we retro-gamers from upon our highest of horses…

  • Alpha Mission (NES)

    Alpha Mission (NES)

    I’ve mentioned before on the blog how on that fateful Christmas morning in 1987, I received the legendary NES Action Set along with The Legend of Zelda which, at the risk of sounding completely overdramatic, was a bit of a life changing experience (I mean … here we are nearly 40 years later, and I’m…