The Nostalgia Corner

Good evening everyone. Today we are talking Nintendo and its most iconic guy. Before that I extend sincere thanks to those of you reading these blogs, this is my tenth piece, the page has already had over 2500 views and our last piece on PS2 games had been read over 130 times, I have no idea if that's good or not but the fact even one person has taken the time from their day to read my thoughts on retro gaming really makes it worth while, so thank you kindly. This week I have dusted of my laptop, I hardly ever use it now  unless I'm booting up WinUAE the Amiga emultor. I am currently trawling ebay for retro consoles to boost my collection, among them a master system and a Saturn. The titles I have been playing this week, stunt car racer, world boxing  manager and a Rockstar are my hamster. Clive and cecil building a music empire excellently put together boxing sim Stunt car Racer I could get lost in this emulator for hours, so many amiga roms to choos

Hope you all had a productive weekend filled with plenty of gaming retro or current based. Leading on from the last piece on our part 1 of PS2 titles it won't come as a surprise that we are doing part 2 today. The titles in part 1 may not have been to everyone's tastes  and that's cool, we all have entirety different opinions and more importantly memories of past titles. GTA Vice City - Rockstar 2002 Swiftly on to the main content. I want to start the piece with a bang, a 1980's shoulder pad wearing bang. Rockstar GTA Vice City. Rockstar had to bring something special to the party following the huge success of GTA III and for me boy did they deliver. Vice city to this day is probably pound for pound Rockstars best GTA title, why you ask, they took what they learned and developed in III and turbo charged it 80's style. Main cover art work Very colourful strip The game had a stellar host of Hollywood names carrying out voice over work to this day I d

Getting some free time to sit down and write is priceless when you have a young family, so having some time off from work and the kids at school means i can sit and game or even better research some ideas to blog, or both, today I am switching my time between writing this piece and getting stuck into more Mafia III, very much enjoying my time as Lincoln Clay. Today we are following on from something i touched on at the end of the last article, and that is top 10's, PS2 in particular, the top 10 series will hopefully prove both easy reading but also stir up nostalgia and debate, i doubt very much you would find one 10 ten then same , we all have games that resonate with us differently and games that were just that good its impossible to ignore them. I recently found a you tube channel called MetalJesusRocks, does what it says on the tin, retro gamer who has passion for games and mental who boasts a Jesus like head of hair. Good channel if you like retro gaming, a strong thum

New week new blog, very much enjoying writing, feel I'm improving hopefully those who read my blogs think the same,reader numbers appear ok (to be honest i have no idea what the marker is for defining a successful blog) so i will continue blissfully ignorant, having previously wrote a blog to market my twitch channel on wordpress a few years ago i would say that numbers for this blog are indeed better. I thought today i would take a look at Football sim titles from the past and see if we could unearth some gems to discuss. In today's current gen era we have pretty much one title that has a tight grip around the market, 2 titles if you are feeling generous, we have the Fifa franchise from EA Sports and Pro Evolution Soccer from Konami, there was a time that the question 'are you Fifa or Pro Evo' was a important question, say the wrong one and that could be the end of any budding friendship, is up there with are you team Rick or Team Negan. Me i have switched between bo

I hope the weekend has been a good one for you all. Productive and full or hearty gaming, me I've logged some hours on one of the free offerings from the PlayStation's PS plus, Mafia III. To my shame I failed to pick this up when it was released, being the cheapskate I decided to bide my time until it dropped in price and then hey presto there it was free to download, result. Any older gamer or one with a family will understand that sometimes we just can justify buying every new title out, family, kids etc can dictate a lot of our finances. Strong game so far. Good solid story of double cross/revenge seeking retribution, and our main protagonist is an absolute unit. Definitely check it out if you were like me and haven't played it. Anyways on with our main piece, cult classics and one in particular. Like movies from the past games and gaming franchises in general are now privy to the reboot magic, always a gamble if the game was a roaring success in its heyday, it can

Its the weekend and this guy just feels like writing, as a family man there was plenty to be done around the house but it was done in record time so i could get down to the important business of brainstorming ideas for blogs and reviews with plenty of research and reminiscing about a lot of what i have got down on paper so to speak today. Racing sims today are a highly polished affair, slick controls, smooth as hell textures, fine detailing on the cars and the environments are just light years from the predecessors from years gone by, today we have the cherry on top with Grand Turismo and also others such as Project Cars, the F1 series, Forza and Need for Speed (underground 2, riders on the storm boys, riders on the storm), but for every finely polished current gen title racing sim there is a grandfather that has blazed the trail so that these games could exist. Today we look over and reminisce over some titles from the 80's and 90's, some may well still live in our mem