Football? T-T-That’s not all, folks!” – Segazoom In 2024, Looney Tunes Wacky World Of Sports was released to limited fanfare and limited quality. Every time I see it in a digital storefront, I wistfully remember when the Warner Brothers cartoon properties were used to play sports with such joy. The year was 1994, the console… Continue reading A-Z of Sports – Tiny Toons ACME All-Stars – Multi-sport mayhem
Category: Retro
Speed Puzzle Power: Cleopatra Fortune
Speed Puzzle Power is my place to highlight the wonders of speed and reflex oriented puzzlers. We’re starting right with my personal favourite. -Segazoom Taito was a powerhouse in the 1990s. Best-in-class shooters in Darius, unique experimental fighting games in Fighters Impact and Psychic Force, pursuing perfection in single-screen platformers with the Bubblun dragons and expanding on that clear-the-screen… Continue reading Speed Puzzle Power: Cleopatra Fortune
The A-Z of Sports Videogames: Darts, Leg 1
I never said I was going to do this in order, okay? -Segazoom It’s time to learn about your dear writer again. I love Darts. Love watching it, love playing it. I’m maybe at pub level, but don’t have a good place to practice. I also love all kinds of sports games. We all know… Continue reading The A-Z of Sports Videogames: Darts, Leg 1
The Court of Tennis Games – A(ce)
The Tennis Court has a rating system as a fun not-at-all-tired gimmick. The ratings, known as Service, are: Ace- The strawberries and creme-de-la-creme. First Serve- Getting your heavy flat serve in play, but it’s getting returned. Very playable, but not tip top. Second Serve- Your 140mph rocket goes straight into the net. You have to… Continue reading The Court of Tennis Games – A(ce)
A-Z Sports Jam-boree: a 12-leg relay
Feel free to use this video of each event in the game I prepared earlier as a reference point. Segazoom This is a confusing thing to exist. The Venn diagram of minigame collection connoisseurs and sports aficionados surely has minimal overlap. The fact to take away from this, however, is that I sit squarely in… Continue reading A-Z Sports Jam-boree: a 12-leg relay
Almanac Of Golf Videogames: Arcade Course
Hitting a ball with a big stick into a small hole in some finely manicured grass. Sandpits, babbling brooks and a stroll through some countryside. When you make a complex sport pick up and play, do you pick up the appeal with it? The arcade would like to demonstrate – well, at the very least… Continue reading Almanac Of Golf Videogames: Arcade Course
Sonic Adventure 2
An Xbox 360 review copy of the game and Battle DLC was provided for the purposes of this review. This is a mirror (with some readability edits) of the review held here: http://www.push-start.co.uk/game-review/game-review-sonic-adventure-2-xbox-360ps3pc/“ Sonic has had a very varied past. From the highest highs of Sonic 3 + Knuckles to the lowest lows of Sonic 2006. On the Dreamcast,… Continue reading Sonic Adventure 2