I still remember it so vividly: the day my mum took me to the store to pick up the Sega Master System II, my first ever console and a moment that inevitably influenced my gaming life for good, culminating in me. The console’s box design and game covers checkered in predominant white with black stripes and adorned with Times New Roman font. We sure have come a long way since then, but in the early 90s when Hypercolour t-shirts constituted taste, it was magic.

What the hell? What’s a Spartan soldier doing in DOA 4? Mario and Sonic at the Olympic games? Battletoads vs Double Dragon??

Gaming crossovers have been around for ages now, with a variety of characters and franchises merging together to form some insane results. Robocop vs Terminator was one of the early crossover titles I remember from my youth, and this was pretty cool way back before Aliens vs Predator came along with rubbish movies and hardly a single decent game apart from the Jaguar FPS and the side-scrolling arcade game. These days it just gets crazy, with… Read More

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Here is a quick timeline of the gaming life of a former Sega “fanboy”. In writing this I discovered quite a bit about my own hypocrisies and double-standards…coming to the conclusion that we should all give up hating this console or that console, this company or that company, Sonic or Mario etc etc. They all have their value, so we should just enjoy it while we can. Respect each other’s bloody decisions!

Born December 1982

Premature by 3 months, apparently offset by my mum walking past a Space Invaders arcade machine and having an urge to play.

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Age 2 Learning to walk (handy for future trips to EB games) and… Read More

Soccer. You either love it, hate it, or belong to the casual World Cup watching crowd. Yeah there is way too much cheating and diving involved, and these days with clubs having players on astronomically overpriced wages (just look at Beckham) it really is difficult for fans to feel at all connected to their team. Still, people from all over the world play it and at its core it is still a beautiful game. And it really should be called ‘football’.

So here is a brief rundown of the video game football genre. It’s not a comprehensive list and, certainly, if you are not a fan of the sport then you can stop reading and merely look at the screenshots… Read More