As I mentioned in last week’s piece, I didn’t know many people who had a Game Gear during my younger days. Most of my friends were card-carrying Game Boy owners, so my experience of handheld gaming was very much weighted in favour of Ninty’s chunky slab of gaming apparatus. However, ...
A first for me this week, as the game I’m covering today is not from the home or arcade but rather from a handheld device. Playing games on the go is an area of the industry that has consistently grown and evolved over the past thirty years. What first took ...
When we last left our heroes, “Big Daddy Cool” Diesel had been able to fend off the unwanted advances of monstrous monarch King Mabel to retain his WWF Championship at Summerslam. However, despite slaying the monster in their climatic collision, Diesel was continuing to draw poorly at the gate as ...
When we last left our heroes, Mabel was crowned “King of the Ring” following a lousy tournament destroyed by injuries and questionable booking. Despite ascending the throne, the newly named “King Mabel” was hardly tearing it up as the WWF’s new monster heel. However, federation owner Vince McMahon is nothing ...
Something new this week, as I take a look at a period in wrestling history and some of the shows that defined it. Specifically, we’re examining the WWF’s “New Generation” of the mid 90’s and we will be taking a particularly keen look at a wrestler by the name of Nelson “Mabel” “Viscera” ...
Often when people reminisce about classic bouts of wrestling yore, they usually focus on main event clashes. Be it Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant facing off in the epic conclusion of WrestleMania III or Ric Flair and Harley Race’s famous finale at the original Starrcade, it’s big main event ...
One thing about the crazy world of professional wrestling that I’ve always enjoyed is that most wrestlers will have a unique theme song that plays whenever they come down to the ring. Some claim that it was Hulk Hogan who popularised this idea when he used to come down the ...
If you’re thinking “Hey, Mike, what’s with all the Top 10 lists recently?”, the answer is that my current day job is becoming slightly busier than it was previously, owing to one of my colleagues struggling with a long-term ailment and the fact that there’s a limited amount of working ...
Music is an important part of any game. When done right, good music can really complement a section or stage of a game and make the experience even more enjoyable. Regularly, fans of games will effuse about musical pieces that enhanced their playing experience. What doesn’t always get as much ...
With the 33rd Edition of the WWE’s annual WrestleMania Event due to take place this upcoming Sunday, I decided to step away from video games this week and instead take a look back at one of the previous incarnations of the “Showcase of the Immortals”. There have been many great ...
As the home console industry moved into the fifth generation, the introduction of compact discs over old school cartridges meant that games could start experimenting with features that hadn’t been previously available on the older formats. For instance, the comparative size of CDs meant that for the first time developers could ...
The year is 2006. After a flurry of JRPGs in the wake of the game-changing Final Fantasy VII on the PS1, the following generation of consoles had turned the tide of gaming tastes away from the genre and began to focus almost exclusively on first-person shooters. The Call of Duty series ...
Until Madden NFL 11 on the Xbox 360, I had never actually played a Madden game before. This was mostly down to the fact I didn’t really know much about the rules of American Football, and I found the idea of playing a game with that lack of knowledge quite daunting. ...
Something a bit different this week as, instead of looking back at a Retro Video Game, I will instead step into my time machine and revisit a classic footballing contest from yonder back. The match in question today is the frankly ridiculous meeting between Yugoslavia and Spain from Euro 2000. ...
I’m a firm believer in the “fist pump factor” when it comes to video games. Whilst some games will scare you, make you laugh and, in some cases, even make you cry, there is another category that will make you punch the air when you succeed in them. Pro Evolution ...
When you sit down and boot up a game, what is it you’re looking for? Is it a challenge to sink your teeth into? Or a funny, relaxing experience in which to indulge? Whatever your motivation for gaming, we do so for one simple reason – to make us happy at ...
Once upon a time, there was a decade known as the 90s, and in the 90s there were a shedload of football/soccer games on the home consoles. Whereas today there’s really only two serious contenders for the contents of togger fans’ wallets, back in the 90s there was a veritable ...
Regular visitors to this cheery video gaming outpost will be aware that I like myself a nice bit of togger now and then, be it in real life or in virtual form. The first football/soccer game that I really enjoyed playing was International Superstar Soccer Deluxe on the much vaunted ...
