Nowadays, there are quite a few video games that feature witches as playable characters in games (Bayonetta being the most recent that springs to mind) but back when I was a kid, witches were almost always just there to fill the role as a villain, or a side character at best. But then I discovered …
Many years ago it was my cousins birthday. I remember him telling me in school some of the things he'd received as birthday presents, a Lego Pirate/Islanders set, a skateboard and a few other things. One of those other things was Road Rash for the Sega Mega Drive, which was as he put it "a …
Continue reading Retro Gaming! Road Rash (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Electronic Arts, 1991)
I think I have mentioned previously as to how ruthless some NES games could be, and Capcom's Ghosts 'N Goblins is definitely on the extreme end of that scale. Though challenging, it is thoroughly spooky and deserves a mention on the Halloween Countdown. I am pretty sure I played the sequel before I played this …
Due to a variety of reasons (most of them boring) it has been a while since I last did a blog post. So I am going to do my best to rectify that now. I am guessing it would have been around 1999 and I had gone over to a friends house (we had been …
I wasn’t a very modern kid growing up. When my friends were all playing on their Super Nintendos or Sony PlayStations in the 90s, I was still playing on my Gameboy or my parents Amstrad computer. A lot of the titles for the Amstrad and other home computer systems of the time like the ZX …
Continue reading Video game Retrosp’egg’tive, The Dizzy Series!
There aren't many establishments that I have been (soberly) ejected from, but I distinctly remember that as a kid I was threatened of being kicked out of the local super market by a security guard. Why? Was it for stealing sweeties or some other heinous crime? No. I was opening the tops of the cardboard …
Continue reading Cereal box freebies! Nestle ‘Playstation Action Heroes’ toys from 2001!
I like to play retro games as they usually aren't quite so 'heavy' as modern games. They don't demand a huge amount of time or effort to be put into them. You could easily pop Super Mario Bros. on for an hour and a half and finish it. A lot of games from the 8 …
Continue reading Video game Retrospectives! The first three Metroid games. NES, Gameboy and SNES!
Probably to my girlfriends dismay, I acquire a lot of crap. I make that sound like it just appears and I shrug my shoulders and go about trying to find a space for it. This isn't the case so I should probably rephrase my previous statement. I willingly purchase a lot of crap. I obviously …
Firstly I should state that I am not sponsored by The Toy Box, I just have a big appreciation for old toys. I have probably mentioned before, but in the 1990's hitting up carboot sales, charity shops and collector fairs it was easy to pick up lots of awesome toys from the 70's and 80's. …
Continue reading The Toy Box! A delve into an 1980’s filled mystery box!
In 1999 I can't really say that as a 9 year old kid that there was really much that I needed back then. If I was to write down a list of necessities in order of importance, it would probably be something like this: 1) Pokémon 2) Oxygen 3) Food and water …
The Forgotten Starship 