Well this was certainly unexpected. Psygnosis were the jewel in Sony’s development cap and the key to gaining them respectability as a console manufacturer. Let’s be honest, Sony Imagesoft sure as hell were not the ones you looked to for quality gaming. Sometime around 1996 for a brief period Psygnosis regained some of their autonomy […]Wipeout 64
Well this was certainly unexpected. Psygnosis were the jewel in Sony’s development cap and the key to gaining them respectability as a console manufacturer. Let’s be honest, Sony Imagesoft sure as hell were not the ones you looked to for quality gaming. Sometime around 1996 for a brief period Psygnosis regained some of their autonomy […]
Remember how over used Mode 7 was at the beginning of the SNES life? Dear god most developers showed little restraint shoving it in their games! Did we really need the gratuitous map zoom in Actraiser? Personally I didn’t really care if Master Higgins was swallowed by a giant scaling whale but whatever. For every […]
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 […]
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 […]
