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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.
Ocarina of Time is one of those games that - with a large fanbase built over a number of years - it usually finishes high in the Best Games Ever list. But just how good at it? Can it really convert a non fan of the genre? Retro Garden, who confesses that he missed it the last time around, picks up a 3D RPG that's not Final Fantasy, and endevours to find out.
Ever lost your head completely? Dynamite Headdy may just be the game for you. Dynamite Headdy is the first Megadrive/Genesis game reviewed on this website, and for a good reason. It's a stunning game that does every teenager's favourite console justice. Treasure have a knack of making sleeper classics. This is one of them.
In honour of Mario Kart being released for the Wii, Retro Garden look at the original incarnation of everybody's favourite kart racing game. Race around a track, throw some red shells, but - looking back - was it really one of the best games ever? We take a look in a non dewey eyed fashion.
Wii gamers will now get an added treat shortly from their Virtual Console. Interplay games - who's classics include Earthworm Jim and not so classics include Boogerman - have announced four of their games are coming out for the Wii, but are they any good? We find out.
Joysticks! We've all got our favourites, we've all got our least favourites (Atari Jaguar), but Nintendo have resurrected two of the best for the Wii - the Neo Geo and the Super Nintendo. Play those games like they should be played (yes Neo Geo's joystick was perfect for Beat-em-ups)
FINISH HIM! Two immortal words and you have 10 seconds to input a complicated series of moves to land a finishing moves. But what were the best? Retro Garden today has a look of the three best. Keep an eye on B. Orchid's zip by the way, as for the fatalities it may not stay up that long....
Beat em ups have brought us many fighters over the years. There have been yoga masters, beasts, humans that have turned to beasts, dinosaurs, cavemen, robots and even transvestities have been figures of fighting games for years, but what are the wierdest beat em up charcters? Retro Garden finds out.
In my opinion, one essential purchase for every retro gamer is the cheap and overlooked Sega Saturn. However, often the battery backup in the machine has died. Here's how you replace it very quickly, cheaply, and easily.