🚀👾 TWO New Darius Collections Are Coming! 16th June 2020 PS4/Switch (Console & Arcade Collection) 🚀👾 #Darius #RetroGaming

The Legendary Darius series pioneered horizontal Shoot 'Em Up Games and was developed by the TAITO Corporation.

The first Darius game was a hit when it was released in 1986 with its dedicated dual-display cabinet, imaginative enemy designs and revolutionary sound design.

The first Darius is set in a futuristic 2D world, where the player pilots a Silver Hawk craft alone, or with a second player, and shoots their way through enemy hordes, navigating tricky terrain and battling giant robotic sea creatures. 

🌳⚔️ Arboria | PC | Review | "If you Go Down To The Woods Today..." 🌳⚔️ #GameDev #IndieGames

In Arboria you begin your journey in this dark fantasy rogue-lite as an ancient forest-dwelling troll-like warrior You will descend into the ever-changing forest and uncover the mysteries of your tribe. You get to use a variety of Symbiotic Weapons to fight enemies and you will get the chance to mutate to become even stronger on each run.

👨‍⚖️ FEMIDA | Review | PC | "The Gavel Will Fall On Bad Translations" 👨‍⚖️ #GameDev #IndieGames

Femida - £6.99 - Steam

In Femida you Play the role of Judge Demian Mardoch and investigate the disappearance of your father during the Last Revolution. 

It’s set in the dystopian State with an overarching storyline that is initially intriguing to dig into.

🐙Dread Nautical | Review | PS4 | "if one of Rob Brydon’s cushy cruises turned bad" 🐙🚢 @ZenIndies #GameDev #IndieGames

Ever wondered what would happen if one of Rob Brydon’s cushy cruises turned bad?

Or if Jane McDonald hadn’t forged a daytime presenting career, but instead had to fight off hordes of bizarre beasties?

Of course, you have. Anyone who’s been on an ocean liner fears the day it’ll be overrun by marauding monsters with a taste for blood and a penchant for attacking people with suspect accents (more on that later).

🚐🌉 Poly Bridge 2 | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Strut Your stuff" 🚐🌉 @drycactusgames #IndieGames #GameDev

Poly Bridge 2 The acclaimed bridge-building simulator is back and better than ever!

New levels, new mechanics, a custom physics engine, workshop campaigns, and much more! Rediscover your engineering creativity with even more hours of puzzling fun!

🏔️🚗 Hill Climbing Mania | Nintendo Switch | Review | *A mountain I couldn’t bring myself to climb* 🏔️🚗 #IndieGames #GameDev

A mobile port to the Switch, Hill Climbing Mania makes no bones about its similarities to Fingersoft’s 2012 title, Hill Climb Racing.

Whilst this is a ‘snack’ genre that I have had a lot of fun with on mobile platforms, InLogic’s title has too many issues for it to be a recommended purchase.

💎 Clockwork Aquario - A Lost Arcade Gem From 1992 Unearthed! 💎 #Arcade #RetroGaming

Here's some exciting news about a video game that nearly never came to light and as a bonus, it's from the talented people at Westone that made the Wonder Boy series!

Strictly Limited Games and ININ Games announced today that Clockwork Aquario will be released in 2020 - after being lost for 27 years!

💥 Fury Unleashed | Review | PC | "Comics Guns N Tons Of Fun!" 💥 @AwesomeGamesStd #GameDev #IndieGames

Fury Unleashed - PC - Steam £17.99

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Fury Unleashed is a combo-driven run n gun rogue-lite action-platformer and feels like its the love child between Metal Slug and Dead Cells whilst also looking at Broforce with longing looks.

In Fury Unleashed it’s all about achieving combo kills as each kill increases your combo and by hitting certain combo numbers and your damage resistance and healing powers kick in! 

Fury Unleashed oozes good looks and has a comic book vibe that hits the mark in every department as you play each panel of your comic book screen by screen.

⛳️🏌️‍♂️ What The Golf? | Review | Nintendo Switch | "The TRUE Zany Golf" ⛳️🏌️‍♂️ #WhatTheGolf @tribandtweets #IndieGames #GameDev

As a fan of both golf and video games, any time the two collide, I fly into action on a pedal-powered whirligig that uses crossed 9-irons as rotors whilst screaming my battle cry of ‘Tommy Armour III’. I also have a penchant for Warioware-Esque mini-games and so What the Golf? appears to be genetically designed for my gaming palette. Good.

⚾️🥎 Pong Quest | Review | PC | "The Best Version Of Pong You Will Ever Play!" ⚾️🥎 #PONGQuest @ChequeredInk #IndieGames #GameDev

"PONG Quest™ bills itself as a new take on Pong as you take control of a brave young paddle and attempt to traverse treacherous randomly generated dungeons in a PONG®-themed dungeon-crawling RPG."

GAME LINK:

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/pong-quest-pc/?tap_a=50262-8d2b33&tap_s=646600-ff0c41

🕹️ The Top 10 Best Selling Arcade Games Of The 1980s 🕹️ #Retrogaming #Arcade #Retrogames

Here's a Top 10 Of The Best Selling Arcade Games Of The 1980s

Can you guess who comes steaming in at Number 1?

🧩🕰️ Tick Tock: A Tale For Two | Nintendo Switch / iOS | Review | "A Puzzle Game For Two" 🕰️🧩 @OtherTales #GameDev #IndieGames

A puzzle game that requires two players, Tick Tock: A Tale for Two is a pleasant distraction for a couple of hours and a very neat idea that is worth a gander for the puzzle-lovers out there, especially during these locked-down times.

🤖 Volcanoids | Early Access Preview | PC | "Volcanoes & Robots" 🌋 @volcanoids #GameDev #IndieGames

Volcanoids - On Steam £15

Volcanoids is a first-person, base building survival game set in the steampunk era.

You’ll get to Explore a volcanic island, operating giant drills and enduring eruptions triggered by mechanical beings while you try and unravel the mystery of what is causing the volcanic eruptions.

https://www.volcanoids.com/

🚛🚚 Convoy | Review | "If George Miller and John Carpenter Met up in the 80’s and Decided to Make a Game" 🚛🚚 @convoy_games #IndieGames #GameDev

If George Miller and John Carpenter met up in the 80’s and decided to make a game, Convoy would be the result!

🧙‍♂️🐸 ⚔️ Operencia Stolen Sun | Review | PS4 | "Dungeon Crawling & Frog Man Bashing!" 🧙‍♂️🐸 ⚔️ @zen_studios #IndieGames #GameDev

Operencia The Stolen Sun almost completely nails the sweet spot between an old school dungeon crawler and an up to date RPG and I think I like it a lot!

🕰️ Mad Experiments: Escape Room | Preview PC | "shaping up to be a great example of the genre" 🕰️ @clemgamedev #GameDev #IndieGames

I’m a big fan of physical Escape Rooms and it seems to be a good fit to the gaming medium, what with it effectively being a series of puzzles.

PlayTogether Studios have seized upon this idea and brought it to life with the resulting game being impressive, challenging and fun.

⚔️♟️ Wartile | Review | PS4 | "Like Sun Tzu, The Art of War is in My Blood" ♟️⚔️ #GameDev #IndieGames

I was really excited about Wartile. I am a huge fan of strategy games like XCOM, Age of Empires, 8-Bit Armies etc. and have been since the 90s (playing Command & Conquer Red Alert over LAN was an experience).

🦜🐦🦉 Fledgling Heroes | Review | Nintendo Switch | "It's Time To Tap & Flap" 🦜🐦🦉 @FledglingHeroes #GameDev #IndieGames #Nindies

Fledgling Heroes is giving me the Flappy Bird vibes but with more feathers and finesse. It has a lovely looking hand-drawn style of graphics and an ultra-tight control system that is easy to learn and hard to master. This is one slick fun video game.

The game does feel very much like a mobile game that has been brought to the switch but that’s no bad thing as the game feels right at home on the Nintendo Switch and gives you a nice zen experience while you flap through this relatively short but fun side-scrolling flapper.

💥🤛 John Wick HEX | PS4 | Ten Minute Taster | SNEAK SHOOT KILL REPEAT 💥🤛 #JohnWick #IndieGames #GameDev

John Wick Hex is an action strategy video game based on the John Wick franchise.

The PlayStation 4 port of the game released on May 5, 2020.

The game was developed by British studio Bithell Games and is distributed by Good Shepherd Entertainment.

AND NOW I'VE GOT MY HANDS ON IT!

🕹️ I Played That At My Mate's House 🕹️ #Retrogaming #C64 #Commodore64

When I chart back my journey through video games over the years and I think back to my childhood years of playing video games a pivotal moment in video games always took place at a mates house. 

From my first moments of seeing a Spectrum to the point where I realised I needed a PC these moments were all borne from a visit to a friend’s house who had the latest console or the coolest game of the time.

So let’s get into my own personal time machine and head on back to those key moments from when I was growing up and discovering video games for the first time.