🚲🔥🔥 Steel Rats - Gameplay Trailer "Destructive, Octane-fuelled Motorbike Combat and Death-Defying Stunts!" 🚲🔥🔥

🎮 ‘Tate Multimedia’ have revealed gameplay of their upcoming motorbike combat game ‘Steel Rats’. 🎮

🤟🏻 Review: Double Kick Heroes - "METAL RAWKS!" 🤟🏻 #IndieGame #GameDev

Game Title: Double Kick Heroes

Developer: Headbang Club

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Rating: Ice Cool

Double Kick Heroes (DKH) is easily one of the most fun rhythm games that I’ve played in recent years due to the (admittedly loose) story.  

The combination of Lucasarts style graphics, individuality, original music, tongue in cheek characters and solid gameplay really won me over.

⚽️ SNES Football Games Were Shite - Episode 3: Champions World Class Soccer - ACCLAIM - 1993 ⚽️ #Retrogaming

🎮"Over the years of video games playing and owning a Super Nintendo I came to the realisation that the Super Nintendo was shit for Soccer games! They're all rubbish!"🎮

🎮"Join me as I trudge through the poo and serve up a steaming slice for you to consume in weekly portions"🎮

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⚔️ Ten Minute Taster: Minit - PS4 "Beware The Cursed Sword!" ⚔️ #IndieGame #GameDev

🎮 "The duck billed Minit guy finds a cursed Sword and is given a minute to explore the island before he dies and starts again. This game is brilliantly simple and devious...." 🎮

☆ Russty Russ Talks Hunchback, C64 Plus 4, Amiga & Jack Daniels - Video Games Memories ☆ #GamersUnite #Retrogaming

Hailing from the Isle Of Retroshire @Russty_Russ is one of our favourite Twitter peeps.

He manages to mix retro nostalgic TV listings with retro gaming posts seamlessly and you can always rely on that nostalgia fix from his awesome Twitter feed.

He's also a mega Teletext fanatic so is right on trend at the moment with the rise and rise of the Digitiser Show Kickstarter!

Let's get to know @Russty_Russ a little bit more with our delve into his retro gaming past, present and future!

☆ My Special Toys R Us Memories ☆

When I was growing up, Birthdays meant one thing……A TRIP TO TOYS R US to buy whatever I wanted!

Okay, let me clarify that. A trip to Toys R Us to buy what I had been asking for as long as it wasn’t too dear.

Looking back on it now I was a lucky kid!

This yearly ritual made Toys R Us a thing of legend as I only visited the place once a year. It made that trip through Jeffrey Giraffe’s Toy Store a magical time indeed.

I’d watched the adverts and sung the song and every year I got to walk the hallowed aisles of Toys R Us in awe of everything on offer. 

☆ Review: Urban Trial Playground (UTP) - "A Flipping Good Time!" ☆

Game Title: Urban Trial Playground

Developer: Tate Multimedia

Platform Reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Rating: Melting

Urban Trial Playground (UTP) is a Nintendo Switch exclusive title that plays similarly to Redlynx’s Trials Fusion. A ‘pick up and play’ blast of fun with cool surf music, colourful summer locations and some serious stoppie action, although it does suffer from a lack of game modes and perhaps the shallowness of the gameplay isn’t for everyone.

🕹️ Which Video Games Were The Best Arcade To Console Conversions? 🎮 #Retrogaming

Back when the Arcades ruled the video games world the ultimate accolade was to be seen to produce an arcade perfect conversion onto home consoles and computers.

As a gamer you'd look out for the phrase arcade perfect in any review and you knew that was the game to buy if those immortal words were uttered.

It got me thinking about some of my favourite arcade to console conversions over the years and I have compiled a nice little top 5 to show off my fave arcade to console conversions.

☆ Review: Ayo: A Rain Tale - "Your Greatest Enemy is The Camera" ☆ #IndieGame #GameDev

Game Title: Ayo: A Rain Tale

Developer: Inkline Ltd

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Rating: Melting

In platform video games, you can often tell within a few minutes if there are going to be serious issues as it all boils down to responsive controls, if you are looking to spend several hours leaping around a game world that relies heavily on hand-eye coordination and it doesn’t feel accurate or natural, at best the game will never reach its full potential and at the worst, the player will give up out of frustration. 

⚽️ SNES Football Games Were Shite - Episode 2: Soccer Shootout - CAPCOM - 1994 ⚽️ #Retrogaming

🎮"Over the years of video games playing and owning a Super Nintendo I came to the realisation that the Super Nintendo was shit for Soccer games! They're all rubbish!"🎮

🎮"Join me as I trudge through the poo and serve up a steaming slice for you to consume in weekly portions"🎮

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⚽️ SNES Football Games Were Shite - Episode 1: 90 Minutes European Prime Goal - NAMCO - 1995 ⚽️ #Retrogaming

🎮"Over the years of video games playing and owning a Super Nintendo I came to the realisation that the Super Nintendo was shit for Soccer games! They're all rubbish!"🎮

🎮"Join me as I trudge through the poo and serve up a steaming slice for you to consume in weekly portions"🎮

☆ Review: Disc Jam (Nintendo Switch) - "Oversized Pretzel Tossing is Now an International Sport!" ☆ #DiscJam

Game: Disc Jam

Developer: High Horse Entertainment

Platform Reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Rating: Melting

I’m a big WindJammers fan after I played the PS4 version last year and got hooked on the awesome array of characters, moves and funky arenas to play in. WindJammers has what I believe to be the most fun competitive action out there along with a great set of added bonuses.

Disc Jam is obviously heavily influenced by the mighty WindJammers and when I began to play Disc Jam on the Switch I was expecting WindJammers Mark 2 but instead, it feels like I got WindJammers 0.75.

Disc Jam was released on PC back in March 2017 and was instantly heralded as the easy to play hard to master spiritual successor to WindJammers. It was the talk of the town for a while and has garnered good reviews but all those reviews have a similar theme as to what I’m about to go through here.

☆ Timewarp Arcade - Bridgwater - "Let’s do the Timewarp (arcade) again." ☆ #Retrogaming

I wrote an article on the very awesome Timewarp arcade in Bridgwater, Somerset last year (http://www.gamesfreezer.eu/2017/10/britts-bridwater-bender-at-time-warp.html), I originally visited as part of a friend’s stag weekend and completely fell in love with the place and its retro gaming charms.

Even as we travelled back to Cardiff from that trip, we all decided that we wanted to go back as soon as possible.

Finally, after a busy winter, we had all managed to find gaps in our schedules make time to head back and once again, it was a great experience.

☆ Review: A Case of Distrust - "Play it again, Phyllis" ☆ #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: A Case of Distrust

Developer: The Wandering Ben

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Rating: Melting

A Case Of Distrust is a heavily text-based mystery adventure video game set in the 1920s and heavy with a woozy, smoky atmosphere that takes you through the seedy underbelly of a Prohibition-era San Francisco.

You take control of Phyllis Malone, an ex-cop turned private detective who usually spends her days making money out of tailing deadbeat husbands in failing marriages but who gets dragged into a bootlegging gig involving blackmail and other general unsavoriness.

☆ Review: Distortions – “Violin Hero is something nobody asked for” ☆ #IndieGame #GameDev

I generally consider myself a very forgiving reviewer. I usually give games the benefit of the doubt, especially in as a far as indie and first-time developers go. 

It was with this frame of mind that I approached Distortions, a debut video game by fledgling Brazilian developer Among Giants. 

But sadly, I am in awe of Distortions, and not in a good way.

🎮 A Sony PlayStation Celebration 🎮 #Retrogaming #PS1

🎮 "The Sony PlayStation Holds A Special Place In My Heart So Join Me For A PlayStation Celebration Set To Music....Enjoy!" 🎮

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☆ Insidia - PC - Ten Minute Taster ☆ @InsidiaGame

🎮 "INSIDIA is a turn-based online strategy video game which I have just discovered. The art style is gorgeous and the gameplay is fast paced which make this an ideal title for me to get hips deep into a genre that i'm fairly new to" 🎮

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🐶 Ten Minute Taster - Turbo Pug DX 🐶 #GameDev #IndieGame

🎮"Turbo Pug DX is a Pug Pixel Perfect Runner Platformer Romp and it's mega fun (and it's free on Steam)!"🎮

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☆ Review: The Forbidden Arts - "Could Someone help these guys make a new trailer?" ☆ #IndieGame

After my editor sends me a game to review, I usually start by watching the trailer, a short clip of video that is designed to build hype and show off some of the best parts of the game, but the most exciting thing about that was the burning Steam logo at the end. 

That trailer did nothing for me, and I hate that, because that is no way to go into a game, especially one that is unfinished and needs a bit of an open mind.  

The Forbidden Arts is thankfully a straightforward game: an action-adventure platformer with a simple button scheme and a good dose of ambition, but this work in progress from Stingbot Games seems to have a long road ahead still, so this is more like a dry first impression.

☆ Assault Gunners HD - PS4 - Ten Minute Taster ☆

🎮"Charge around with me and my Mech crew in Assault Gunners HD the remastered version of the PS VITA video game from Japan"🎮

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