I’m pretty sure no one thought Psygnosis would be Sony’s ace in the hole when they made the leap to console manufacturer. Not to downplay the many great games they’ve made over the years but around 94-95 I imagine most people still thought of them as the company that made the Lemmings games. However the […]Wipeout
I’m pretty sure no one thought Psygnosis would be Sony’s ace in the hole when they made the leap to console manufacturer. Not to downplay the many great games they’ve made over the years but around 94-95 I imagine most people still thought of them as the company that made the Lemmings games. However the […]
NEC came back to the US gaming scene initially with the weird Dreamcast game Industrial Spy: Operation Espionage in 2000, ending a 7-year publishing hiatus. While they had disappeared after the failure of the Turbo Grafx-16 in Japan they were a prolific publisher, supporting nearly every console overseas. With their resurgence it was thought that […]
Although Extreme G was not an exceptional game it at least had the foundation for a competent futuristic racing game. It simply lacked polish in terms of its play mechanics. Extreme G-2 manages to fix the majority of the flaws of the first game but introduces new ones all its own that unfortunately bring down […]
I remember the racing games of the 32-bit era pretty well. Most were a stuttering mess that could barely keep a decent framerate and even when they did it was in the low 20s at best. Sure we had our Gran Turismos and Ridge Racers but those were the exception, not the rule. The N64 […]
The early months of the SNES’s launch saw a slew of developers shoehorn Mode 7 effects into their games for no discernable reason. Seriously, how many games in the first year did the “zoom into the map” effect? Not that I blame them, it was an easy effect used to dazzle tween minds across the […]
