Retro Gaming Australia

Jet Force Gemini is one of Rare’s great games of the Nintendo 64 era. Although it wasn’t quite as successful as other efforts, the game did a great job of blending exploration and third person shooting action. Shame about the game-padding Tribal hunt, though.

The NES version of Bionic Commando is best remembered for being completely different (and superior) to the arcade original thanks to its tightly designed action, superior swing mechanics and more interesting level design.

It seems crazy now, but often in the past, video games would make it to marketing stage and be cancelled before release. BioForge Plus was one such game. It was an updated re-release of BioForge which would offer post game expansion content that would continue the story. It was cancelled in a whirlwind wave of cost cutting across Origin in 1995.

Konami and LucasArts had a brief partnership in the 16-bit days which yielded a few decent games. Most people know of Zombies Ate My Neighbours, but Metal Warriors was overlooked by audiences at the time – their loss. It’s a lot like Cybernator – another great SNES mech-based action-platformer published by Konami, although the games have nothing to do with each other.

Remove the “S” from the title and you’ll have a pretty fitting description of American McGee Presents Scrapland.

Let’s be frank: the Acclaim wrestling games of the 5th generation of consoles were garbage with their bullshit fifty billion button sequences for basic moves. ECW Anarchy Rulz was the last of these games, and copped the brunt of critic’s displeasure for the previous games (which were actually highly rated at the time).

Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is a beat ’em up for the Mega Drive and SNES based on the 1994 comic book crossover event of the same name where Spider-Man and Venom team up to fight a new symbiote called Carnage. The Japanese Mega Drive version, which is for all intents and purpose identical to every other version, is one of the rarest and most expensive Mega Drive games.

Widely heralded as one of the finest RPGs of all time, Chrono Trigger is an adventure that takes place across the fabric of time, with memorable characters, fantastic graphics, an excellent battle system and one of the greatest soundtracks ever composed.

Taz-Mania is one of those platformers that looks great, but isn’t actually very fun to play.

In the 32-bit era, there were a shit ton of Formula 1 games, and FIA was happy to let anyone have access to the official license. Monaco Grand Prix wasn’t the best of the bunch, but it was competent.