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August 13, 2019|All Reviews, New Fangled Review Although I was never a Commodore 64 user, one has to appreciate the importance of this home computer in video gaming history. Still listed in Guinness as being the highest selling computer model of all time, it brought home computing to roughly about 17 million people. People are
April 18, 2021|All Reviews, New Fangled Review, Retro Reviews by Rob Leggo The Evercade is the most interesting console that has passed across our desks in many years. There have been many, many, MANY cheaply made retro handhelds, of dubious build quality and VERY dubious legal standing…so the big question I had when this first
August 22, 2019|All Reviews, Retro Reviews The Atari Lynx is often called the “also ran” handheld of the 1990s, as its sales were absolutely dwarfed by its competitors the Nintendo Gameboy and the Sega Game Gear. Yet the Atari Lynx holds a special place in this old mans heart as it’s the lovable loser I
October 17, 2019|All Reviews, Retro Reviews By Rob Leggo The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer is often written off as having been nothing more than a failed, fad of a system driven by a rush of FMV heavy, non-game games…appreciated more by craft brew drinking hipsters, than real gamers. At the time of it’s launch however, the
January 24, 2020|All Reviews, New Fangled Review, Retro Reviews By Rob Leggo Retro-bit is a company that has been known for many years for making new controllers for retro consoles, but in the last few years, they have dabbled in the consoles market. Most of these were systems that would play Genesis, NES and SNES
September 5, 2019|All Reviews, New Fangled Review So, ever read a description of a game and it just sounds so darn intriguing that you feel the need to try it, well that happened with me and Spoiler Alert from Mega Fuzz. Here is the synopsis from Nintendo’s site : Spoiler Alert is a video game
September 3, 2019|All Reviews, Grump Fitness So, a bit of back story…as a younger man, I used to enjoy running, and had no trouble maintaining a somewhat regular body shape. As recently as 2016 in fact, I was still running half marathons. But a mostly sedentary job with occasional moments of extremely high stress and
Beat Saber is a bit of a phenomenom in the world of the vidya games right now, taking most kids of my generations dreams of wielding a pair of lightsabers, adding some thumping music and making a game out of it. Beat Saber is the brain child of the folks at Beat Games, an indie
October 24, 2019|All Reviews, Fifteen Minutes With Review That’s right folks, the sim games are hot now, first the was GOAT Simulator, then the Goose Simulator, and now…. Clock Simulator!!!!! Maybe you didn’t hear me… ahem… throat clear “CLOCK SIMULATOR!!!!!!!”. I picked up this bad boy for a cool $0.79 and now I’ve spent 15
October 19, 2019|All Reviews, Fifteen Minutes With Review Ok so this is the inaugural review for a new section we are trying out, where we spend 15 minutes with a game and decide whether it was worth that time and if we plan to spend more time with it or not. Now whats driving this
The Grumpy Old Gamers 