⚽️ Episode 15. SNES Football Games Were Shite - Kick Off 3 - ANCO - 1994⚽️

🎮"With Brazilian screamers galore, this is an episode not to be missed! Kick Off 3 is so much fun and yet so bad it's good!"🎮

🍋🔫🍍 Review: Juicy Realms "A Fruity Shooter That Ripens Quickly" 🍒🔫🍉

Game Title: Juicy Realms

Developer: SpaceCan

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Rating: Melting

Juicy Realms is a (sort-of) top-down twin-stick shooter that can be played locally or in co-op modes. 

Set in a world where the food chain has completely altered, leaving sentient fruits and vegetables at the top of the chain and humans somewhere in the middle, it’s up to you (and possibly a friend) to load up and delve deeper in to the Plant Empire, putting a stop to their ‘seedy ways.

👊🏻🏀 Review: Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn "The Big Daddy is BACK!" 🏀👊🏻 #ShaqFu

Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn

I know nothing about basketball, but after Shaquille O’Neil was in his own hot game on the SNES and in that one movie where everyone thinks it was Sinbad, I figured he must be a major star. And that opening line is all we need to mention about the original game, as this second iteration seems to want nothing to do with the classic fighter, other than as material for some jokes. 

Many years and a sprinkle of crowdfunding later though, this dominant athlete is looking to craft a new legend, or at least wants to make something closer to an actual success in the video game world. 

Is it possible though, or are some things in history truly doomed to repeat?

⚔️ Moonlighter - PS4 - Ten Minute Taster ⚔️ #GameDev #IndieGame

🎮 "Looting Dungeons and running my own shop has long been an ambition of mine and now I can live that dream in Moonlighter on PS4. 

Loot the local dungeons and sell your wares in a cross between Legend Of Zelda and Stardew Valley" 🎮

⚽️ Episode 14. SNES Football Games Were Shite - Kevin Keegan's Player Manager - Imagineer - 1993 ⚽️ #SNES #Retrogaming

🎮"With Kev's hair and Kick Off gameplay combined what could possibly go wrong here? 

We'd love it if you watched to find out!"🎮

🏚️ Review: Without Escape - "A Brief Jaunt into The Unknown" 🏚️ @BrittRecluseuk @kingdomofcarts #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Without Escape
Developer: Bumpy Trail Games
Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)
Rating: Melting

Without Escape has been released previously in a different guise on the Xbox Live service and has been in development through various stages since 2001, when it was a very different beast indeed. 

The game comes with a brief history of its development cycle (Bumpy Trail Games is a one-man team) and it’s clear to see that the game is a labour of love. 

From its inception as a very basic point and click game with graphics drawn in Paint through to the newest and final incarnation as a game with lushly rendered graphics and extra sections with multiple endings that we see today.

❄️Review: ICEY - Nintendo Switch "Almost ‘ICE’-cool" ❄️ #GameDev #IndieGame @BrittRecluseuk @kingdomofcarts

Game Title: ICEY

Developer: Fantablade Network

Platform Reviewed: Switch

Rating: Melting

ICEY is a video game that has been around on the PC for a couple of years and has gained quite a fervent fan following, it’s blend of classic hack-and-slash gameplay paired with a meta-story approach and concepts have appealed to a wide audience, but if the story doesn’t grab you….what are you left with?

💾 Matilda Talks 80's Choplifter, Big Box PC Games and Mrs Ball's Chutney - Video Games Memories 💾 @Bhaal_Spawn #Retrogaming #BigBoxGames

Here are some more awesome video games memories from one of our fave Twitter peeps.

Today is the turn of Matilda aka @Bhaal_Spawn aka ☀️ 🌸 idspispopd  🥀 aka Tilly

Tilly loves PC gaming and especially those beautiful MS-DOS games that I am prone to retweeting screenshots of when I fall down a Twitter screenshot rabbit hole...

Let's get to know the MS-DOS gaming, Big Box loving Matilda with a few questions, you know the drill, so here goes...

🔫 Ten Minute Taster - Milanoir - PS4 - "70's Gang Land Pixel Milan!" 🔫 #IndieGame #GameDev

🎮"Milanoir: What about some cool as hell twin stick video game gang land shooting action in 70's Milan on your trusty PS4?"🎮

⚽️ Episode 13. SNES Football Games Were Shite - International Superstar Soccer Deluxe - Konami - 1995 ⚽️ #Retrogaming

🎮 "As the saying goes, "Tails Never Fails", watch me go about proving this scientific fact whilst playing the awesome ISS Deluxe.

This game is surely NOT SHITE!" 🎮

🥊 Review: Punch Club "Comes out swinging but struggles in the last rounds" 🥊 #IndieGame #GameDev

Game Title: Punch Club

Developer: Lazy Bear Games

Platform Reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Rating: Melting

As I played Punch Club, the game that came to mind was World Championship Boxing Manager, a personal classic that I loved back on the Amiga 500.

Whilst the games differ in many ways, the essentials of building skills up to rise through the rankings remain the same and it’s a genre that is quite thin on the ground, more so with an injection of humour.  

After a strong start and an interesting setup, Punch Club stumbles more and more the longer it is played and eventually the heavy grinding and micro-managing wore me down.

🔫 Review: Garage - Nintendo Switch "Just Needs a Slight Tuning Up" 🔫 #IndieGame #GameDev

Game Title – Garage

Platform Reviewed – Nintendo Switch

Developer – tinyBuild Games

Garage is a top-down shooter with horror elements that is set entirely underground.

With Hotline Miami and the Sega Saturn / PlayStation game Loaded as touchstones, Garage gets a lot right but has some issues running throughout that reduce the ‘one more go’ factor that can make or break these types of games.

🦊🌳 Review: Fox 'n' Forests "A Hidden Gem from an Alternate Universe" 🌳🦊 #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Fox n Forests

Developer: Bonus Level Entertainment

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam) - £15.49

Rating: Ice Cool

Fox n Forests is a throwback the video games platformers of the mid-90s with a very Super Nintendo vibe running through it. 

From the colourful graphics through to the visual styles and touches, this is very much a game that could have been released in 1994 to critical acclaim and, like the best of those games, it still stands up today.

🎮 Ten Minute Taster: Omensight - PS4 - "Watch me buddy up with a possessed Rat and a Giant Bear" 🎮

🎮"Watch me buddy up with a possessed Rat and a Giant Bear with an English accent in this beautiful action adventure murder mystery on PS4"🎮

⚽️ Episode 12. SNES Football Games Were Shite - International Superstar Soccer - Konami - 1995 ⚽️

🎮"Surely a visit to my old friend ISS will be a joyous video gaming moment as I revisit a football game legend......or maybe I will just blame the joypad for my lack of video games skills....you decide!" 🎮

🦄 Aravelle Talks Tandy Tennis, Gauntlet and Dr Pepper Mixed With Kahlua - Video Games Memories 🦄 @aravelle

Aravelle is an awesome Twitch Streamer who has a life-size diamond unicorn called Alvin a PC called Penelope and a chair called Cher.

Aravelle is also one of our fave Twitter peeps, so we thought we would invite her to take part in our Video Games Memories feature so we can find out a bit more about this gaming goddess...

🍳 The Drisk Talks Ant Attack, Outrun and Triple Fried Egg Chilli Chutney Sandwiches - Video Games Memories 🍳 @TheDrisk

It's my pleasure to have The Drisk in the Games Freezer for Video Games Memories.

The Drisk is an encyclopedia of all video games knowledge and someone I have enjoyed listening to for the last 3 years.

I first became aware of The Drisk when I began listening to the Retro Asylum podcast as The Drisk was a regular on the show at the time.

Now let's delve a bit deeper into the Video Games Nostalgia gland of the almighty Drisk!

🌊 Review: Lake Ridden "A gentle, supernatural tale that doesn’t make a huge splash" 🌊 #GameDev #IndieGame @kingdomofcarts @BrittRecluseuk

Game Title: Lake Ridden

Developer: Midnight Hub
Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)
Rating: Melting

Lake Ridden tells the story of a young girl called Marie who has gone camping with her sister, Sophia. 

Upon waking, Marie notices that Sophia has gone missing and sets off alone into the darkened woods to try and find her…what could possibly go wrong?

☕️ Review: Coffee Crisis "A caffeine-fuelled burst of arcade action" ☕️ #GameDev #IndieGame @kingdomofcarts @BrittRecluseuk

Title: Coffee Crisis
Developer: Mega Cat Studios
Platform reviewed: PC (Steam)
Rating: Ice Cool

Coffee Crisis was originally released on the Sega Mega Drive back in 2017, developed by Mega Cat studios in conjunction with Black Forge coffee house in Pittsburgh, who handled the story of the game whilst Mega Cat worked on the design.

As a retro game collector myself, (specifically with Sega Mega Drive) the game has been on my radar for a while and I fully intend to pick up a boxed copy at some point. Fast-forward a year or so, and Coffee Crisis has seen a Steam release with enhanced graphics and audio (as obviously this version is not limited by the Sega hardware), but yet still keeping a very 16-bit artistic approach. 

Whilst an enjoyable romp, it is a brief game that has a very arcade approach with the depth that the arcade experience brings.

⚽️ Episode 11: SNES Football Games Were Shite - Head On Soccer - US Gold - 1995 ⚽️ #Retrogaming #SNES

🎮"Come meet Ginger Bob Marley in a unique game of football"🎮

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