If you lack Street Fighter 3 skills, fear not because this awesome video is here to help you become a street fighting master, what do you mean nobody plays 2d fighters anymore...

Here's the intro to Snatcher for the Mega/Sega CD, if you like it, you should do your best to play it...it's pretty amazing, if you don't like it please email hideo.kojima@konami.co.jp and he will tell you where you can stick it!

Here's a runthrough of one of my favorite ever shumps for your viewing pleasure.

Well i haven't updated in a while because the last few days have been pretty action packed, but rest assured the last 3 days have been 100% retro! I want to thank everyone who had a hand in setting the Retro Revival Week up, and everyone who read my updates over the week (all 2 of you ).

But for now, lets get this show on the road...the finishing post is in sight!

The first console i busted out was the old NES. Sadly my NES collection is pretty pathetic, but spurred on by Jir's memory lane series and the fact that NES games only cost about £1 that should change in the near future!


I bought this from a friend back when i worked at Lionhead, but i hadn't really got much of a chance to play it until now, i have to say i really enjoyed it alot. I'm a big admirer of Kojima's work and by playing his early games you can really see how he developed as a designer.


I picked this up for a few pounds a while ago because i remebered playing it at a friends house about 15 years ago, you play as Orpheus, the greek hero and visit a variety of Greek places and kill Greek monsters...it's pretty Greek...
My favorite item is the Sandals or Hermes which let you stick to the ceiling, their pretty rad.


Where would we be without Mario eh, i don't even really want to think about it...but it would be a bad place thats for sure!


This is probably my second favorite Mario game after Super Mario World, people say Miyamoto makes too many games about coins and Mushrooms, but i happen to be a big fan of Coin and Mushroom based entertainment...

The Next Console i hooked up was the Mega CD (Sega CD in the US) There are only a handful of games worht playing on it, and even less if your from Europe (No Lunar or Popful Mail for us ) but if you look hard enough you can find a few gems even in the this scant lineup. Day 6 was spent playing one such gem...


If you ever have a strange desire to buy a Mega CD, a Blues Brothers style mission from god, there is only really one game you need for it, Snatcher is the best game on the Mega CD without a doubt, thats not saying much considering the competition, but it really is a masterpiece. I am going to try and post a video of the intro movie at some point, it's awesome.

Finally i picked up my Neo Pocket, sadly the neo pocket suffered from poor advertising despite having some really awesome games, and an amazing d-pad that actually made it possible to do a spinning piledriver every time!


I'm a pretty big King of Fighters fan, and i was really surprised how well the game translated to a handheld, all the moves are there and the opponents are just as tough as ever, forget Alpha 3 on the PSP, if you want really good handheld 2d fighters get a Neo Pocket!


While they changed the formula a little bit, this version of Metal Slug still retains the feel of the original series, it's just been shrunken slightly, probably using some kind of voodoo...


This is my favorite Neo Pocket game, if i had to describe it, it kind of like Pokemon, except you fight using Capcom and SNK characters. I am pretty Pumped for the DS sequel..i hope they don't mess it up...

Well thats all for this Week of Retro fun, you take care now you hear!

The Sega Megadrive holds a special place
in my heart, it’s the first console I owned that I had all to myself,
it’s where I cut my teeth and learned the skills that would eventually
make me into the amazingly skilful gamer I am today (i wish)

It was actually pretty tough to choose
which games to play but I managed it in the end…want to find out what I
chose…then read on dear friend..read on!

First up was Zero Wing although i'm going to be honest with you, i only watched the intro...it still raises a smile...

Next up was Phantasy Star IV, this is my favorite entry into the Phantasy Star series (although the original was also pretty amazing too). In Phantasy Star IV you play as a hunter named Chaz, who despite having a very un-heroic name goes on a quest to save the galaxy from the evil Dark Force...gripping stuff.

Gunstar Heroes! This has got to be one of my all time greatest MegaDrive/Genesis games, there's not really much more i can say about it...

This game features Bomberman...except this time he's MEGA.
More modern games
should have the words Super or Mega somewhere in the title...I think I’ll suggest that to my boss for our next game...

 

Today i played Hella games, and i'm too lazy to write about them so...

Hold onto something ladies and Gentlemen, i'm about to unleash a righteous montage!