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Project Starship is a cheap and cheerful vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up by Panda Indie Studio and it is available now on PSN. It’s a game that gets a lot right but also a few things wrong. The premise of the game is pretty simple, you pick from one of two playable […]

Project Starship – PS4 Review

13 Feb, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / easy platinum / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie

Sisters Royale is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up in the classic arcade style and it comes from Japanese coders Alfa System, their first shoot ’em up since 2005’s Castle of Shikigami 3. That means you can be sure of two things. Firstly, it’s going to be a pretty competent shoot ’em up […]

Sisters Royale – PS4 Review

11 Feb, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / japanese / shoot em up / sisters royale / vertically scrolling by Richie

Stellatum is the latest addition to the PS4’s large roster of shoot ’em ups and comes to us by way of Satur Games. As ever, the plot is paper thin in these sort of games but involves you facing off with different races of aliens, all of whom coming in […]

Stellatum – PS4 Review

17 Oct, 2019 in PS4 tagged arcade / stellatum / twin stick shoot em up / upgrading / vertically scrolling by Richie

I have to admit to not knowing about Ninja Saviors. There was an arcade game called The Ninja Warriors back in the day and a SNES sequel, which this is a conversion of, with a name change that is probably due to naming rights. The Ninja Saviors: Return of the […]

The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors – PS4 Review

15 Oct, 2019 in PS4 tagged arcade / brawler / final fight / ninja saviors / ninja warriors / return of the warriors / scrolling beat-em up / SNES / streets of rage by Gareth

Inferno 2 is a twin-stick shooter from Radiangames, a one man developer from Illinois, which has been around on mobile formats for five years now and is the first game in the series to land on consoles. Now that might be a cause for concern for you, because who wants […]

Inferno 2 – PS4 Review

29 Sep, 2019 in PS4 tagged arcade / inferno 2 / shoot em up / shooter / top down / twin stick by Richie

Despite sounding like the latest product from a pharmacy company, Habroxia is in fact a shoot ’em up in the classic coin-op style and is out now for PS4 and Vita as a cross-buy. Developed by Canadian coders Lillymo Games, this game is very much a love letter to an era of […]

Habroxia – PS4/Vita Review

26 Sep, 2019 in PS4 / Vita tagged 2d / arcade / habroxia / retro / shoot em up by Richie

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