Mega Drive

You could still argue the kart racer genre is not well-served, outside of Nintendo’s platforms. Coming from particularly barren era, Street Racer managed to find some renown on the Super Nintendo whilst also being ported to anywhere that would have it. Street Racer Collection takes four of these versions and […]

Street Racer Collection – PS5 Review

January 11, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged championship / circuit racing / DOS / gameboy / kart racing / Mega Drive / old school / power ups / SNES / soccer / street racer / turbo / violence / vivid image by Mike

Earthion is a 16-bit style horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up and it comes to us from Japan’s own Ancient Corp, a studio that has a history of, let’s say, unusual games that goes back to 1991. Founded by Yūzō Koshiro, the legendary video game composer behind soundtracks for games like Streets of […]

Earthion – PS5 Review

September 18, 2025 in PS5 tagged earthion / genesis / horizontally-scrolling / Mega Drive / shoot em up by Richie

Gynoug continues Ratalaika Games recent trend of porting obscure old shoot ’em ups to modern systems. As with their previous port, Gleylancer, this game is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up that was first released in 1991 on the Sega Megadrive (American readers will know it better as Wings of Wor). The game […]

Gynoug – PS5 Review

November 16, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / gynoug / horizontally-scrolling / Mega Drive / port / remaster / retro / shoot em up by Richie

The rather clumsily named QUByte Classics – The Immortal by PIKO has released on PS4. It’s a port of two versions of the same game, The Immortal. In the package they are labelled as 8-bit and 16-bit but more specifically they’re ports of the NES and Mega Drive/Genesis versions. You […]

QUByte Classics – The Immortal by PIKO – PS4 Review

November 6, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / death / genesis / Mega Drive / NES / password / save states / the immortal by Gareth

Gleylancer is a port of a 1992 shoot ’em up that was originally only released in Japan on the Sega Megadrive but eventually found its way onto Nintendo’s Wii Virtual Console service in 2008 where it could be enjoyed by a global audience. While never being an all-out favourite of […]

Gleylancer – PS5 Review

October 12, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / gleylancer / horizontally-scrolling / Mega Drive / ratalaika / retro / shoot em up by Richie

The latter years of Sega’s Mega Drive were a tumultuous time. With the looming threat of 32-bit powerhouse consoles on the horizon, to a casual observer, you would have been forgiven to think that the days of 16-bit were nigh. Despite this, 1994 proved to be one hell of a […]

Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World – PS4 Review

May 30, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Artdink / Asha / Mega Drive / Monster World / remake / Wonder Boy by Grizz

Of all the retro gaming trends to happen in recent years, one of my favourites has to be when publishers go searching for age old titles that never saw the light of day and finish the work of the developers and finally give the games the airing they may or […]

Ultracore – PS4 Review

July 9, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged DICE / Gun / Mega CD / Mega Drive / Run / synthwave / Ultracore by Grizz