We don't normally do reviews for things that aren't completely oddball, but we've seen precious little about these new Italian toys on English sites other than a smattering of pictures. So we thought we'd show off this collection cute little figures.

First up the box:


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Today's retro review is a very special guest review by the surprisingly porous, retro game enthusiast, Dex. (good friend of regular contributor Richard/RM)

-Introduction-

Ah, Banjo-Kazooie. It isn’t possible for me to play this game and not feel waves of nostalgia for 1998 and being a mere 8 years old. A time where everything was simpler. Everything ( Read more... )

So I know that only three volumes of this manga have been released thus far (as of when I read it), so this isn't technically a completed manga review, but given my love for Labyrinth I felt the needed to give this a proper looking at. First thing that I want to get off my chest is this is NOT a manga. With a few small exceptions, Americans do ( Read more... )

Greyhaven was one of my favorite games as a child, I was so happy to find that my old 3rd or 4th generation floppy of it still functions after 20 years, especially as it's not available for download anywhere on the Internet.

Introduction

Greyhaven is a fantasy murder mystery RPG published to Big Blue Disk magazine in 1991 (though the game itself was ( Read more... )

I'm posting this to LJ land on Wednesday, but I posted it to blogger on Tuesday so it's still a Tuesday review in my mind.

If you read our twitter account you'll know that I've been absolutely glued to the television during Olympic coverage (and that I'm late with adding this review because of that addiction). I don't normally care for televised ( Read more... )

Haunted House was a serious contender doing during our October, Halloween themed games. We didn't have the space for it then, but it's still a great game and deserves to be highlighted so we thought it would be perfect for this month.

Introduction

Haunted House is one of the first survival horror games to ever grace a home console. The concept, like ( Read more... )

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Today's retro review will be an extra special super vintage Atari double feature dedicated to the two releases by the short lived games division of Wizard Video, Halloween and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Introduction

It's a common cliche. "It's so bad it's almost good." Maybe that's not quite what describes Halloween on the Atari 2600. But something ( Read more... )

-Introduction-With the play station coming out in the mid to late nineties, the aspect of unsaveable, unforgiving games was beginning to fade away. During the days of the SNES, the early end of the decade was reserved only for those with serious will, and plenty of time on their hands. Some games will just never be forgotten long after their time, ( Read more... )

as is par for me lately I'll add screenshots tomorrow, I at least have a legitimate excuse this time, our internet was down for the better part of the day ( Read more... )