by Antoine Clerc-Renaud | Jun 7, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Arcade
In 2014, I switched to a MacBook Pro and I’m never going back. Of course at first, I didn’t use it to play older a more recent games, it was a workstation before anything else. And I was glad. It was faster, more robust and more intuitive than my PC which was acting...
by Antoine Clerc-Renaud | Jun 1, 2019 | 1980s
Rare games often have their fair share of urban legends. The rarer the game, the most far-fetched the story. One of those game is assuredly Tetris but a specific version of it. Namely, the one released in extremely limited quantities for the SEGA Genesis or the Mega...
by Antoine Clerc-Renaud | May 25, 2019 | 1980s
This is a tricky one as only a handful—not even—were ever made for a contest and they look exactly the same as the original. Let’s go back in time for a bit. The year is 1982, Imagic just released Atlantis for the Atari 2600 and other systems including the...
by Antoine Clerc-Renaud | May 16, 2019 | 1990s
Released on the Super NES in December 1994, Uniracers let the players race as fast as they could with a unicycle and no one on top of it. If it could appear odd at first, we quickly went past that detail and simply enjoyed the game. Furthermore, it uses the same kind...
by Antoine Clerc-Renaud | Jul 9, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/PC/Handheld, Magazine
Dragon Quest may be the first Japanese Role Playing Game using mechanics still used today, but it’s certainly not the first role playing game from the land of the rising sun. It was a trailblazer that inspired and led a charge by the Japanese but there were some...