Hello everyone. Rik has now written nearly a hundred reviews for this site while I lag some way behind. So in an effort to close the gap I blasted though a bit of Rise of the Triad.

Hi there. I’m trying to keep to a more regular update schedule this year, so here’s the rather great Deus Ex: Invisible War. As mentioned in the review don’t worry about a flood of mid-2000s games – we’re just easing into 2004 with a review of a sequel to a classic. I’ll go play something […]

Hi all. You may have already heard that fellow oldies-reviewing site Just Games Retro has ceased updating and will soon be closing its doors. We’ll be sorry to see them go, as we found their reviews to be both entertaining and informative. Most of their content will be transferred to Mobygames, however the J Man […]

I’d hoped to have something interesting to post for xmas, but if all else fails at least we can highlight a great deal out there in the world of digital distribution. So how about Loom, The Dig, and both Indiana Jones adventures for £1.74? Get it! [edit]Also worth a look, the entire Dark Forces/Jedi Knight […]

Hello all. Just one review today, the shooter Wheel of Time. Hopefully we’ll have another update before christmas!

I’ve been meaning to do a reformat\system reinstall for a while now, and since I gave Windows Vista a miss I figured why not upgrade to the latest incarnation. Upgrading from XP actually means a clean install, so of course afterwards I hastily had to re-install the most important applications: This also gives me a […]

Hello. We seem to have missed an October update, which I’m sure had retro gamers the world around in a state of loss and despair. But to try and make up for it here are two reviews. One sticks to familiar FFG ground – that is, first person shooters. I’ve had a look at the […]

(bit different to our usual posts, cribbed from my livejournal) Deus Ex spoiler alert So imagine a dystopian cyberpunk-ish near future. There’s terrorism, disease and rioting in the streets. An ever growing gap between the lives of the rich in their shiny safe towers and the struggling poor, living in fear. Shadowy conspiracy groups pull […]

So I was flicking through the radio in my car at the Weekend, and on a whim turned to Long Wave. There was a kind of low buzzing noise that I was about to turn off when I realised it was rising and falling in pitch with the engine revs. I’m guessing the signal was […]

So I’ve been playing the Monkey Island special edition a bit. It’s a very close remake – puzzles, dialogue and location all exactly the same. In fact even it’s even closer than that; it feels like the original game re-skinned, matching the animation frame-for-frame. You can even flick between the old and new versions of […]