Welcome to my English language walkthrough of Vanilla Syndrome, one of Nichibutsu’s vs Mahjong titles. I picked this one for some special attention because it has great character design, excellent music and graphics, and a story based quest. Of...
(Update 26/08/2017 – revised article to cover newly discovered V1 hardware) (Update 28/11/2018 – revised V4 integrated photo / description) (Update 05/02/2018 – flyer added) (Update 27/03/2018 – score panel discovered) (Update 18/04/2018 – V1 system with support rail...
UPDATE 15/05 – DO NOT BUY FROM PEOPLE PRODUCING MODIFIED CARTS, the readme file specifically bans making money from this patch. Since this work is given away entirely for free, a modified cart is worth the same as an...
Haven’t written about non-arcade games that much recently, to be honest I thought 2014 was a pretty bad year overall. Lots of broken games, some even worse examples of DLC and in-game currency sales, remakes as far as the...
Living as I do in the UK, consoles weren’t really the big thing and everyone had home computers – the Spectrum, C64, and later the Atari and Amiga. On the ZX Spectrum and the Amiga when I graduated to...
So Driveclub got another small update today, the recently added weather features are now in playlisted races. This was the first time I’d seen thick snow, and yes I couldn’t see a thing, started trying to drive via minimap...
A week or so ago a game called Steamworld Dig appeared on PSN, apparently with little fanfare or mention at all. Seriously it seems to have been a footnote release, which is a shame because it’s not bad at...
Well, I’ve been slacking lately on posting about the games I’ve been playing – and there are two main reasons. Firstly, I’ve been kind of busy with the arcade side of things. Secondly I bought Battlefield 4 and I’ve...
A few (well 6 or 7) years ago someone came up with the bright idea of building a C64 into one of the most popular joysticks of the period, a Competition Pro. I’m not sure if the original moulds...
Next up in the list of weird old junk I liberated from under the stairs, is a ‘Super Joy III’. It’s a TV game joypad in the shape of a N64 pad, but instead of running N64 games which...