With pirates more popular than ever – thanks to a certain movie series – I thought it would be a good time to take a look at Acclaim’s Cutthroat Island movie tie-in…

Despite Popeye being an American creation this sport-sim was only released in Japan…

It’s common knowledge, at least between Sega Saturn collectors, that a series of high-res Virtua Fighter Portrait galleries were released during the Saturn’s early days in Japan…

Kuni-Chan no Game Tengoku (Kuni-Chan’s Game Paradise) is a fascinatingly brilliant…

The first time I heard about this game was not in Mean Machines Sega, CVG or Sega Power but in Sonic the Comic…

This is a curious little platformer, and for a number of reasons…

Just about every format ever released has games that were only available in certain countries, but I think the humble GameGear suffered particularly badly…

I wanted to kick this retro profile off saying that Buster Fight was one of the few one-on-one beat'em ups made especially for the GameGear…

Any retro gamer worth their salt will know that Tetris was originally released on a range of primitive computers before Nintendo nabbed the rights and decided to bundle it with the GameBoy…

What’s this? A Namco-developed 2D platformer released only Japan? How exciting! Well, it would be if Wagyan Land’s only remarkable feature is that it’s completely unremarkable…

Ah, the joys of buying mystery import games…

The original Japanese version of Factory Panic is known as Ganbare Gorby! (Good Lucky Gorby!) and features former Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev…

Poor old Zoop…

Sega never released sales figures detailing what their best selling games of the 90s were…

Believe it or not, this is one of the most impressive GameGear game ever made…

Or, Teenage Mutant Battling Toads, as Rare probably wanted to call them…

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When a friend of mine back when we were 11 rang me to say his parents had bought him a Game Gear, I was dying to have a go on Segas much hyped handheld, and this was the game that came bundled with his machine…

Now before you all start with the "This one's been done!"-isms, this is the GAME GEAR version…

In my opinion this was by far the best Sonic games for the 8-bit system…

Remember when US Gold got their hands on Capcom’s Strider and produced that god awful Strider 2? Well the good news is that their take on Megaman is infinitely better; the so-so news is that they have simply lifted about half a dozen stages and bosses from Megaman 2, 4 and 5 and bundled them into one game…

This game is dreadful…