6,557 reviews · showing 5,461–5,480
Reader Amiga
Way, waaaaaaaaaaay back in the depths of time (well the late eighties-early nineties), playing Lemmings nearly took over my life. Took it over to such an extent that I came perilously close to failing first my GCSE's, and then my A'levels…
falsehead · March 8, 2004
Reader Amiga
There has been a long tradition of game heroes drawn from the animal kingdom over the years. Crash is a Bandicoot, Sonic is a Hedgehog, Gex is a Gecko and Jim is an Earthworm [a pedant writes: technically an earthworm is not an animal it's…
falsehead · March 8, 2004
Reader Amiga
If you are going to do bizarre experiments with your particle accelerator, then for goodness sake DON’T do them during a thunderstorm. It’s just asking for trouble. But sadly back in 1991 a ginger scientist called Lester ignored this sound…
falsehead · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
There's a new kid in town who's come to bring joy to slavering title-starved owners of the Gun-Con 45 for the Playstation. If you'd resorted to pointing the light-gun at your sister and making 'PEOO! PEOO!' noises for the past few months…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
The Star Wars Universe is a violent place, in a bloodless kind of way (the occasional piece of lightsaber dismemberment excepted). Through all of the films, we've enjoyed countless spectacular person to person battles, whether the weapons…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
The taxation of trade routes to outlying systems is in dispute. The Greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo with a blockade of deadly battleships... Taxation? Was anyone else distressed by the opening…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
I rented South Park for the weekend, and I am about to do everything within my power to dissuade you from having even this much (or this little) to do with the game. Yes, I'm an enormous South Park fan too, and it's truly surprising how…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
The road travelled by the samurai is serpentine. Starting in Japan, moving through America and finally spreading to Europe and the PAL territories of the world, Konami's Soul of the Samurai spent a bizarre one and a half years in…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
Never before have I been so depressed and disappointed by a Playstation game for which I had high expectations as I was in the case of Acclaim's Shadow Man. In the eye of my personal tastes, this game had almost everything going for it. We…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
Cars, Gadgets and Combat. Three cool things which can be rearranged in a mighty six possible permutations if you lay them end to end, but that's not important right now. What is important is that the transition of this kind of car combat…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is the third journey into one of my favourite horror worlds, and like the third instalment of any trilogy whose power has created an increasingly anxious and intense fan base (of which I am a proud member), RE3…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
I would like to be able to say that the game I consider to be the greatest across the board technical achievement for the Playstation is actually an original title for the console. I can't, because it is Quake II, a port of id Software's…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
AYAAAAAAAAAAAAA! That's both me yelling out the name of Parasite Eve 2's (PE2's) heroine, and my scream of frustration at this game. Square's full-blown entry into the Survival Horror stakes mobilises tons of technical wunderkind features…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
Before Um Jammer Lammy, before Parappa the Rapper 2... well, obviously... there was Parappa the Rapper! The original adventures of the rappin' hip hop canine hero weirded their way onto the Playstation in 1996. Too original, too insane and…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
Can you remember the first second-hand game you ever bought for your Playstation? For me it was Mortal Kombat Three. This was also the second title I ever fired up on the console, so it's not surprising that it made me 'ooh' and 'ah'…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
MDK - It's a tongue-in-cheek acronym for Murder Death Kill, and it's the title of this spectacular 3rd-person shoot-em-up. Playstation MDK is a port from the Mac and PC versions, and if anything this could be the 'funnest' version yet. It…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
Picture in your mind the arcade classic Gauntlet. Now remove from the game the wizard and his friends. Replace them with escaped mental patients who are criminally psychotic. Travel to an outer space penal colony of the future, splash…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
A young black-clad woman trots on horseback through the dismal green-grey landscape of turn of the nineteenth century Wales. A soprano cries a monk's hymn in the background. Chimes are struck, and the funereal rumble of a drum suggests…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
Jupiter is an exciting planet. I'd go so far as to say it's the excitingest planet in the galaxy. It's an elephantine, reddish gassy giant with a day period consisting of a cracking ten Earth hours and a diameter eleven times the size of…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
Reader PlayStation
1989 was my favourite year in arcade games. Golden Axe arrived, Final Fight arrived, and just crossing the threshold of an arcade gave me a massive anticipatory rush. My friends and I were living through the glorious rise of the…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
