Home Entertainment Suppliers (HES) is an Australian company that distributes video games and accessories. HES ported over various games to the Nintendo Entertainment System(NES) for companies such as American Game Cartridges, American Video Entertainment (AVE), Bit Corp, Color Dreams, Epyx, Thin Chen Enterprise (Sachen, Joy Van, etc.) and Tengen as unlicensed titles. Back in the […]
Nintendo knows how to make good games. Their first-party titles are always of the highest quality – they never talk their games up and almost always deliver on what is promised. That agenda has stayed true throughout the years. Their consoles have acted more as a platform for their own development tools, as opposed to […]
In 1991 i received my first gaming console as a christmas gift, little did i know this would become one of my favourite past times. Gaming has excited me, frustrated me and helped me through the bad times. Looking back i decided to write this blog and highlight my favourite title for each console i […]
It was a while ago when I bought the original Xbox only to enjoy retro games via Roms, even though I was reliving my childhood games it still didn’t feel proper, it was then I made the decision to start to pile up on the original hardware. It’s been about a year and a half […]
Golden Age Of PC Gaming When I think about retro gaming my first point and call is to my days on the PC; a vast number of classic titles that held their own against Italian plumbers and blue Hedgehogs. The golden age of PC gaming was filled with loveable characters, great storytelling techniques and is […]
What happened to those games that consumed hundreds of hours of your childhood? For many of us they simply disappeared, for a number of reasons, and the entire series now ceases to exist. Today we take a look back at some of the better series – not just single games, but we’ll count expansions – […]
I think it’s taken way too long for Dreamcast games to come to present-day consoles. This wasn’t a console that just disappeared into nothingness amid its maker’s demise as a hardware manufacturer. Such was the popularity of the Dreamcast that developers were still releasing games deep into last decade. Its popularity amongst hardcore gamers, I […]
Ah, the good ol’ days of gaming when simplicity ruled all. I often reminisce of my earlier days of gaming, more so now thanks to the reinvigoration of classic games on contemporary platforms. My earliest gaming memory is pretty much a blur now, although I force myself to never forget it. My cousins were the […]
Today was a sad day for gaming – THQ announced that they would finally be laying the long running Red Faction series to rest after poor sales with the latest release Red Faction: Armageddon. Let’s take a look at a series that made the transition from a groundbreaking first-person shooter to a 3rd person combat […]
The Sega Saturn is a 32bit gaming console that was released in 1994, and like many of its competitors at the time it uses CD-ROMs as its storage medium to play games. Sitting just behind the CD drive door a cartridge slot resides, contrary to the rumors that were hovering around before the console’s launch […]
