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.
No word of a lie, a game that scared the bejesus out of me was Resident Evil. Absolutely terrifying and launched the new survival horror genre. In this review, I review the first game of the series, Resident Evil, which was released on the Playstation One in the mid 90's. It was one of the cruical games for the PS1, but how does it look now?
Like it or not, the NES was full of platformers, in particularly those based on Disney licenses. Thankfully though, most were unequivocally great. In this review, Matt Neputin reviews Chip & Dale 2.
Ys: The Vanished Omens is an odd game from my memory. I remember whenever reading magazines and towards the back they had a list of reviews of most games. Ys was always last. But was it a good game? Was it commercially successful? And just how do you pronounce it? In this review, Hamish Smith of The Retro Underground reviews this Sega Master System Game.
Ninja Gaiden was one of those games that didn't seem to get the recognition it deserved, which was a shame, as it was an absolute classic. In this article, Hamish Smith of The Retro Underground looks at the much ignored franchise, in particular the much ignored Master System version. Check it out.
We have a little competition this week on Retro Garden, the chance to win epic shooter Firefly Vegas for the Xbox 360! The competition is simple to enter and one lucky winner will win a copy of the game! To find out how to enter and the rules, read this post!
The Xbox has allowed Indie developers to make true "remixes" of games. This one is FireFly Vegas, which features gameplay elements from a bunch of Retro Games, but what is RockMint's first game like to play? I take a look at this Indie Game available to buy now on XBox.
Here's a thing - I love Batman. It's probably my favourite comic book character, and Batman has rather incredibly escaped the curse of "rubbish games based on franchises" that exist in video games. Arkham Asylum & City are future games for this blog, but what about one of the earliest games? In this review - Dave from Retro Gamer Japan reviews Batman for the Nintendo. Check it out.
Sonic the Hedgehog has gone through the mill recently with poor games, with many people blaming the fact the game it is in 3D means that it's poor. However, it's not strictly true. With the right team behind them, Sonic can make the translation into 3D, as this article from Simon Parry says. Check it out.
Although popular in Europe, the Sega Master System was remarkably popular in the Far East. Some games that were huge hits out in Japan were changed for a western taste. One such game was the game based on Fist of the North Star, which became the rather bland sounding Black Belt. In this review, Hamish Smith reviews this game, to see if it made the translation.
