FUTURE CLASSIC

428: Shibuya Scramble

For a whole decade, Spike Chunsoft’s classic visual novel was only available to Japanese speakers. Now it’s in English, find out why you shouldn’t sleep on its striking real world presentation and complex web of intersecting stories…
22-09-21 515 0 comments
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No One Can Stop Mr Domino!

Play magazine said “if this game had a middle name, it’d be ‘originality’” – but was that enough to earn this PlayStation cult classic a top score?
30-10-18 16,909 32 comments
FUTURE CLASSIC

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Once unmarketable in the West, visual novels have finally found their audience and this cult hit is one of the primary reasons why. Find out why it will be remembered for years to come…
30-06-17 4,962 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Puyo Puyo

Here it is, the very beginning of a decades-long puzzle dynasty…
17-05-17 8,625 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Batman

There are three choices when you get the Batman licence, right? Platformer, beat-’em-up or driving game. Wrong. Meet Sunsoft’s secret fourth option…
09-07-15 11,757 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Night Trap

Nick talks about how Digital Pictures’ controversial trap-’em-up was groundbreaking, if not always fun…
05-05-15 8,522 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Tinkle Pit

Yes, that’s the real name – but don’t pass this game up just because of that…
22-04-15 8,505 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Deflektor

Vortex Software’s tricky puzzler bends both laser beams and your mind…
12-12-14 9,019 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Double Switch

Take Night Trap’s gameplay, add Corey Haim and Debbie Harry, et voilà – Double Switch.
19-06-14 7,935 0 comments
FUTURE CLASSIC

Portal

We explain why you’ll still be playing Valve’s mind-bending puzzle game in years to come.
10-02-14 6,785 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Stix

Darran loves Qix, so he was always going to fall hard for the BBC Micro clone.
16-01-14 8,739 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Mr. Driller

Steven Jackson explains why Mr Driller is a fantastic Dreamcast puzzle game.
01-01-14 9,337 2 comments
RETRO GAMES

Quedex

A selection of mini-games that stood out on the Commodore 64.
23-12-13 7,111 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Jammin

Get ready to get your groove on with a look back at Taskset’s musical puzzle game.
21-12-13 6,732 1 comments
RETRO GAMES

Lemmings

Lemmings was a phenomenon in the early Nineties, with ports produced for more or less every active format at the time after its 1991 Amiga debut
10-12-13 5,778 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Dinomaster Party

This Party game gives you the choice of 8 different Dinos to compete against each other in minigames spanning 4 worlds…

05-12-13 7,644 0 comments
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Mrs Mopp

As a kid in the 80s, despite my pocket money depending on it, I don't remember ever wanting to do the house work…

10-09-13 7,477 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Pacmania

By 1987 Namco were thinking of new ways to milk the Pac Man franchise…

30-07-12 8,898 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Alien

With the release of Prometheus at the cinema- one of my all time favourite sci-fi franchises- it encouraged me to dig out and dust off some of my old Alien games (Alien 3 on the Mastersystem is awesome- but that’s a review for another day) including this pretty much unheard of 1982 tie-in of Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 movie Alien…

19-07-12 6,893 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Wario’s Woods

The final game ever released for the NES, Wario's Woods, would see you playing as Toad trying to create a variety of block patterns which in turn would lead you to the next level and a harder puzzle to work out…

13-06-12 5,302 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

The Lost Vikings

One of the few puzzle games I enjoyed in my early gaming years, The Lost Vikings took all that was great about a SNES platforming game and spliced it with a puzzler.
03-06-12 4,969 0 comments
RETRO GAMES

Bumpy

The Spectrum wasn’t exactly renowned for puzzle games…

27-03-12 5,193 0 comments