🎮⛳️ Episode 9: World Masters Golf - 1995 - SNES - Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun 🎮⛳️ #Retrogaming #SNES

🎮⛳️ "This is a SNES mode 7 golfing extravaganza that is a load of fun to play, come watch me try and become a World Masters Golf Champion" 🎮⛳️

🤺 Review: Kenshi "Kenshi is an impressive feat and rich with depth" 🤺 #GameDev #IndieGame

Lo-Fi Games
Steam Link

A game made by one man over a twelve year period, Kenshi is an impressive feat and rich with depth, but not a game for those short on time or with no patience for a slow burn.

⛳️ Episode 8: True Golf Classics: Peeble Beach - 1992 - SNES "Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun!" ⛳️ #Retrogaming #SNES

⛳️"Standing on the Beach waiting for your buddy to play his next shot on the PAR 4 1st Hole, 

surely it doesn't get much better than that? 

Well, let's see how this SNES gem gets on as I take a trip around the first 3 holes of this Pebble Beach links course!"⛳️

⛺️🤠 Why I Love Red Dead Redemption 2 🤠⛺️ #RDR2

I awake in my bed and stare into the wilderness. My bed is adjacent to Flat Iron Lake in all its splendour.

As I sit on my bed I look across the Lake and think about what happened yesterday and what I’ll be doing today.

The first thing to focus on is picking up a few bales of hay and getting those horses fed.

Then I’ll head over to the wood pile and chop a few more logs.

After that, I’ll chat with a few people around the camp to see what they’re up to.

⚔️ Preview: Guard Duty "chunky pixelated hand-crafted artwork" ⚔️ #GameDev #GuardDuty

Guard Duty – Preview
Developer – Sick Chicken
Release date: Spring 2019 (PC – Steam)

A graphic-adventure game in the classic inventory-based puzzle vein, Guard Duty spans two time-zones and has a very British sense of humour about it.

👹 Review: Pikuniku "A beast that definitely isn’t a burden" 👹 #GameDev @PikuNikuGame @BrittRecluseuk

Game Title - Pikuniku

Platform Reviewed - PC (Steam)

Rating - Ice Cool

I really wasn’t sure what to expect with Pikuniku but after spending only a few minutes in the world of this charming puzzle-platformer, I couldn’t stop until I reached the end.

🎨 Review: GRIS (Nintendo Switch) - "A work of art" 🎨 #GameDev

I’m a massive fan of video games that don’t overcomplicate and that leave a lot of the story to a players imagination and interpretations.

🏌 Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun Episode 7: The Irem Major Title - SNES - 1990 🏌 #Retrogaming #Golf

🎮⛳️ "This golf game is perfect, it's by far the best SNES golf game I've ever played. Come join me for a few holes of IREM's finest" 🎮⛳️

🍻 🤠 Getting Drunk With Lenny & Arthur Morgan 🤠 🍻 #RDR2

🍻🤠"Lenny & Arthur have a drinking session at the Valentine Saloon!"🤠🍻

⛴️💣 Sunless Sea - Zubmariner Edition - PS4 - Ten Minute Taster ⛴️💣 #GameDev

⛴️💣"A murky set of waters are your playground as you scour fallen London in order to find adventure, fortune and Iceberg monsters on the Sunless Sea!"⛴️💣

⚔️👿📕 Review: Book Of Demons "A love letter to classic Hack & Slash games" 📕👿⚔️ #GameDev @ThingTrunk

Book of Demons

Return2Games/Thing Trunk

The ARPG genre is one that is filled to the brim with numerous titles to choose from, making standing out from the pack very, very difficult.

Book of Demons manages to feel different through its tight, streamlined gameplay and unique visual approach but it ultimately remained a game that I appreciated more than enjoyed.

⛳️ Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun - Episode 6: St Andrews - 1995 - SNES ⛳️ #Retrogaming

🎮⛳️"Tee Off has never been so tough! Watch me struggle to get further than 2 yards off the tee while I play this Japanese Golf Game based on St Andrews"🎮⛳️

💾 Britt Roberts: The Rambling Man "Disk 1 of Dungeon Quest is No More" 💾 #Retrogaming #C64

This festive period has been marked for me by a distinct lack of reviewing due to buying a house and having to move over the New Year. 

With no Wi-Fi, I couldn’t download the indie gold sent to me by The Mighty Games Freezer and so I found myself retreating into the Kingdom of Carts Collection in these (quite literally) dark days. 

I thought I’d just write a bit of a rambling blog discussing what I’ve been up to and some thoughts that I’ve had, just to prove I’m still kicking around if anything!

🏯 Review: Nairi Tower Of Shirin - "awesome for point n click fans of ALL ages" (Nintendo Switch) 🏯 #GameDev @HomeBearStudio

Developer: Home Bear Studio
Format: Nintendo Switch

Nairi Tower Of Shirin boasts elegantly hand-drawn storybook style visuals which draw you into this charming point and click adventure and it leaves you hoping that a follow up to this video game will come soon!

⛳️ Episode 5: Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun PGA TOUR 96 - 1995 - SNES ⛳️ #Retrogaming

⛳️Golf Has Never Been So Much FUN "Swings" back into action with a 329-yard drive of a golf video game.....it's PGA TOUR 96 on SNES⛳️

🏎️💨 Review: Horizon Chase Turbo "An Arcade Racer 36 Years in The Making" 🏎️💨 #GameDev @AquirisGS

The cars are on the grid, you grip the steering wheel ready to zip off that starting grid with a boost start that will leave your opponents in your dust.

The countdown hits zero and off you speed in pursuit of 19 other cars around some of the most perfectly designed race tracks in the history of motor racing.

For me, that's every time I fire up a session of Horizon Chase Turbo on my Nintendo Switch.

🎮 "Can we review objectively the first ever games we played growing up, even if they were awful?" 🎮 @arcadeattackUK (Inspired By Arcade Attack)

Inspired by a recent tweet from our friends at Arcade Attack the lads asked:

"Can we review objectively the first ever games we played growing up, even if they were awful?"

🏆 Rich's Games Of The Year 2018 🏆

2018 was a time of plentiful video games. I almost drowned in games in 2018 but I didn’t even get close to playing all the games I wanted to.

For me, it was a year that I was totally devoted to my beautiful Nintendo Switch with my PS4 getting a look in more towards the end of 2018.

The first quarter of 2018 was taken up with me playing through two of the greatest video games ever produced!

🍨 Pang Man Part 37: A trip to the Kirby Café 🍨 #Kirby

On my previous visit to Japan in 2016 I was gutted when I missed out on going to the Kirby Café restaurant, so this time I was delighted to find out that the Kirby Café pop up was returning on dates which coincided with my own.

However, this excitement was short-lived when I discovered that the café had been booked up in for months in advance.

Undeterred I decided to visit the venue, anyway, have a quick look around and hopefully, take a few photos.