So, the early hands-on reviews of the PlayStation Classic are in, and they’re all indicating that it’s a bit bland. I’m not surprised.
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Category: Games
Retro games shopping in Japan 2018: The good, the bad and the expensive
If you’re a fan of retro games shopping, Japan is often seen as the place to be to score bargains, but it’s quite a bit more complicated than that.
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Atari Flashback Portable Review
The somewhat notorious AT Games does, sometimes, put out a quality product. The Atari Flashback Portable isn’t great, but it’s good enough for a quick retro fix — and it might just be the best Atari licensed system you can buy.
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Revisiting Dead Rising 2
As part of my effort to play and enjoy more games, I’ve recently taken a romp through the zombie-infested playground that is Capcom’s Dead Rising 2.
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Why I won't be buying Spider-Man or Red Dead Redemption 2 this year
I count myself as a “gamer” (for better or worse), but I’m going to give two of this year’s biggest titles a miss… for now.
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Streets of Rage 4 is all kinds of surprising
Sega’s classic beat-em-up returns, but that new art style is going to divide a lot of folks (me included)
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Organising retro games collections made easy
Keeping any number of retro games sorted sure isn’t an easy task. But it doesn’t have to be super-difficult. In fact, it can be kind of easy.
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What's your go-to game for relaxing with?
Some games are hard, some games are easy, and some games just let you put your brain in neutral.
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Flea Market Micro Handheld Arcade Game Review
The Flea Market Micro Handheld Arcade Game is sort of cheap, but it left me anything but cheerful.
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Or “It’s astonishing what you can randomly find in a secondhand CD store that you didn’t even think would be open at this time of night”…
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