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.
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.
It was a damn shame how poorly the Sega Dreamcast did commercially, as critically it received some of the highest plaudits. In this review, Adam Vjestica reviews Power Stone on the Sega Dreamcast, check it out.
In our latest feature, Dave from Retro Gamer Japan talks his way through fixing Nintendo Controllers. Their controllers are prone to break, so to get them fixed does take a bit of work. Check out this feature.
My Hero is an odd occurance, a completely original side scrolling beat em up for the Sega Master System. With an odd feature. Want to find out what it is? New reviewer Hamish Smith reviews this Master System Classic.
Wario Ware is a mental game which defined a genre. Small mini games that main game relied on. In this review, Robbie Morrissey reviews the Game Boy iteration of the game. How does it transfer to the small screen? We found out now.
