Welcome to Retro Garden, a site dedicated to finding and reviewing classic games, offering advice on Retro Gaming, and generally providing a warm and fluffy community for gamers to find out about games and old consoles. So if you're from the generation where "Waggling your joystick in your bedroom" was not a euphemism, or are dabbling your feet in retro games to begin with, then you will hopefully find some use to this site.
Retro Reunited will be in Huddersfield on the 12th and 13th of September in a 2 day event dedicated to all things gaming, specifically video gaming. Retro Garden will be there, find out more on what is going on, and where to get tickets for this fabulous event!
It's time to be rad, gnarly and all sorts of other words I have no idea what they mean. 720 harkens back to a pre Tony Hawk days for skaters, where trouble with the law & the man made it was an outlawed hobby. Perfect for use on a video game. 720 is one such games, check out today's Retro Garden review to find out what it was like.
In this review, we welcome a new member to the Retro Garden community. Red is a 14 year old with maturity beyond his years (not least because he'll be reviewing games on consoles that were discontinued before he was even born). Today however, we've let him loose on one his favourite game ever. The PC classic game of the millennium. Half Life.
Athlete Kings. Yes. I hate it. I hate it's gameplay, I hate it's addictiveness, I hate the fact that it is one of the best Saturn Games ever. Yes, this game takes me back to a Summer. A summer of love of a man called Karl Vain from Germany. A summer, of Athlete Kings.
I've got it in your head, haven't I? You're reading this and with two words I can get a tune in your head. Bubble Bobble. Yeah I've said it, and you have the infectious theme tune in your head. Now find out all that's wonderful about this game in this weeks review.
Japan! They're crazy trend buckers, aren't they? We eat our food hot, they eat it raw. They humiliate people people on TV and we....errr...well we do that too. But the main one is Video Arcades. Japan has clung onto this tradition as much as Gaisha's & Tempura. Recently, I took a trip to Japan, here's what is huge over there.
Who you going to call? Let this be a warning to you. This week it's a classic "Bad Game". Ghostbusters for the Commodore 64. But how bad was this? In this review, Paul Havell argues that the fact we remember it, surely, it can't be that bad. Can it?
This post is to mourn the loss of another developer - 3D Realms. Okay, they got a little too big off one successful game, but what a game to milk for 15 years for success. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of gum.
Kirby's Pinball Land is a pinball game (surprise, surprise), but in reality, it isn't much! So if your eyes roll with the thought of flipper based action, just bear with us for one second, read the review, and why if you hate pinball games, you should own this one.