arcade

Most of the classic arcade shoot ’em ups have been ported time and time again to home systems over the last few decades. Certainly all of the classics such as Gradius, R-Type, 1942 and so on but also the elite examples of the genre (usually anything by Cave), they’ve been […]

VASARA Collection – PS4 Review

14 Aug, 2019 in PS4 tagged arcade / japanese / port / shoot em up / shooter / vasara by Richie

Not that you need to care about it but I’ve said before that Space Invaders is a game that I never liked but have liked many games inspired by it and that trend is continuing with Horizon Shift ’81, a clever take on the original that brings in elements of games such […]

Horizon Shift ’81 – PS4 Review

12 Jun, 2019 in PS4 tagged arcade / horizon shift '81 / retro / shoot em up / space invaders by Richie

From Finland; land of bonkers racing drivers (Heikki), excellent goalkeepers (Antti), rugged central defenders (Sami) & salt liquorice (Salmiakki); comes Super Blood Hockey (Kiekko), clearly a labour of love from Oulu based solo developer Loren Lemcke. This port of a game originally released on itch.io has been carried out by […]

Super Blood Hockey – PS4 Review

11 Jun, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged #ultraviolence / arcade / ice hockey / retro by Ian

Iron Snout is a beat ’em up from Lithuanian coders SnoutUp and they describe the game’s genre as “arcade wolf fighting” which is a fair assessment of what the game asks you to do. It is published by Ratalaika Games and so comes in PS4 and Vita versions as you […]

Iron Snout – PS4/Vita Review

21 Apr, 2019 in PS4 / Vita tagged arcade / Beat em up / easy platinum / game and watch / iron snout / pig / ratalaika by Richie

Out of all of the companies you can build a retro collection out of, Pre-Neo Geo SNK is an odd one. While it is entirely undoubtable that SNK have earned their wings over forty years of creating games, their earlier output isn’t exactly all that well known in the west. […]

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection – PS4 Review

31 Mar, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 40th / anniversary / arcade / Collection / retro / SNK by Grizz

For those of you who aren’t too keen on eating your greens, The Walking Vegetables might just be for you. It’s a twin-stick shooter that tasks you with juicing far more than your five a day using various guns and melee weapons. However, as the title suggests, these veggies aren’t […]

The Walking Vegetables – PS4 Review

11 Mar, 2019 in PS4 tagged arcade / roguelike / the walking vegetables / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Zen Software continue to support their excellent pinball hub, Pinball FX3, with yet more tables and this time they’ve made a quick dip back into the library of real world tables from Williams. We rather liked their previous collection of Williams tables, praising the variation between them but lamenting the […]

Pinball FX3: Williams Pinball (Volume 2) – PS4 Review

6 Mar, 2019 in PS4 tagged 90s / arcade / pinball / pinball fx3 / williams by Richie

The VideoKid is an indie arcade title from London-based devs Pixeltrip and gamers of a certain age will instantly recognise its main inspiration which is the classic Atari coin-op Paperboy. As with that game, The Videokid has you playing as a delivery boy, skating along an isometric-viewed road and delivering […]

The VideoKid – PS4 Review

18 Dec, 2018 in PS4 tagged 80's / arcade / paperboy / retro / the videokid / voxels by Richie

GUNGRAVE VR U.N has just released for PSVR. GUNGRAVE VR has also released (read the review here before continuing with this one) and you can buy both with the GUNGRAVE VR: Loaded Coffin Edition bundle. Think of this as a DLC add-on for GUNGRAVE VR, even though they are two […]

GUNGRAVE VR U.N – PSVR Review

9 Dec, 2018 in PSVR tagged arcade / bullet time / first person / gungrave / shooting / side scrolling / third-person / u.n / vr by Gareth

GUNGRAVE VR has just released for PSVR. GUNGRAVE VR U.N has also released (read the review here) and you can buy both with the GUNGRAVE VR: Loaded Coffin Edition bundle. Based on the anime and using the PS2 titles as a framework this is another shooting game for VR, though […]

GUNGRAVE VR – PSVR Review

9 Dec, 2018 in PSVR tagged arcade / bullet time / first person / gungrave / shooting / third-person / u.n / vr by Gareth

In 2018, the vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up, a genre that once dominated the videogaming scene, is something of a niche type of game and this port of a 1997 Sega Saturn conversion of a 1995 Japanese coin-op is a particularly odd choice for a PS4 release but here we are […]

Game Tengoku: CruisinMix – PS4 Review

29 Nov, 2018 in PS4 tagged 90s / arcade / game tengoku / jaleco / shoot em up by Richie

When it comes to real pinball, not the virtual stuff that Zen have been pumping out with their popular Pinball FX series, the original kings of it were probably Williams, the American company behind such well received tables as The Addams Family, Twilight Zone and Pin*Bot. This compilation of tables […]

Pinball FX3: Williams Pinball (Volume One) – PS4 Review

19 Oct, 2018 in PS4 tagged arcade / fx3 / pinball / retro / williams / zen by Richie