I’ve been all NES-ed up recently. At the boot sale the other week I picked up an old Nintendo 64 for £15, together with Goldeneye and F1 Grand Prix. Since then, I’ve bought Micro Machines 64 Turbo (the Nintendo 64 port of Micro Machines V3) and two additional controllers for some 4 player goodness. That put me into a retro mood, and thus I dug out my old NES. I have spent most of my time since to restore it back to its original colour and to get the pins working on the connector. While I am busy working on that project, I wanted to just get on and play some NES games. So, I found Nemulator...

I have noticed a significant difference between the games of today and the games of yesteryear. The lack of creativity stands out the most, with minor exceptions such as Little Big Planet and, er, Little Big Planet 2 due out next year. By the way, when I say yesteryear, I am referring also to the Playstation 2. Nothing touches the supreme variety of the games on Playstation 2, nothing. I mean, look at Ico. Okami. Amplitude (now the Rock Band franchise) and Frequency. Just a couple off the top of my head. Oh, well there is one more. Its called Rez. Rez is, in all fairness, an acquired taste. It struck...

“No one could have believed, in the last years of the 20th Century, that computer gamers were being watched by the timeless world of game developers Pixelogic. And slowly, but surely, they drew their plans against us…” People who know me will also now one is quite an avid fan of War of the Worlds. From the original H G Wells novel written in 1898, to the Jeff Wayne musical in 1975 I get a kick from the idea of an alien invasion based in Victorian England. Imagine people in those days even considering the thought of “Heat Rays” destroying towns and cities all over England,...

I have recently downloaded a cool little application to my Android phone called Nesoid, a NES emulator for your Android mobile. As someone who spent most of his pre-teenage years on a NES, one had to download it to see how well it actually works. With Nesoid installed, you then need the ROMs for it to load, of which I had found from a number of sites. Allow me to point out that you really should have the original NES cartridges before downloading the ROMs, but I’m sure that gets ignored in some cases. Not in this case, for I have my original NES and cartridges and it was time to send me back to...