Retro Gaming Australia

God Hand is a difficult yet highly amusing beat ’em up developed by Clover Studio. You play as Gene, who wields one of the titular God Hands, which gives him all kinds of awesome powers. Gene has a bit of a puerile sense of humor which is reflected in his range of special powers, which includes crotch kicks, spankings and a home run hit.

Mario Golf for the Nintendo 64 is one of the great multiplayer games of the fifth generation era, inviting players to compete on courses with various Mario related themes. It’s easy to pick up and play, but can get quite fiendish on the later courses.

Some awesome stuff this week!

Sega Nomad

Nintendo 64 Twin Controller Pack

NES Control Deck

Mattel Intellivision

Biohazard Collectors Box (GameCube)

Metal Gear and Snake's Revenge (NES)

Metroid (NES Smallbox)

E.V.O.: Search for Eden is one of the most unique games on the SNES – a platformer/role playing game where your creature evolves to cope with changes to the environment. The game takes place over the course of a billion years, with the player starting out as just a fish. The unique concept of the game combined with a relatively small print run has made it into one of the most sought after SNES games.

eBay seems to not attract quite the number of auctions that it once did.

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Demon's Crest (SNES)

Conker's Bad Fur Day (Nintendo 64)

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GameCube)

Donkey Kong Country 1, 2 and 3 (SNES)

Saturday Night Slammasters (Mega Drive)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GameCube)

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Game Boy Advance)

Castlevania: The New Generation (Mega Drive)

Operation Winback (Nintendo 64)

Skitchin’ is one of my favourite games on the Mega Drive. It’s technically quite similar to Road Rash (although the team behind the game mostly worked on NHL games), but players are racing on rollerblades and using traffic to hitch a lift (or skitch) and propel themselves towards the finish line. Like Road Rash, races get quite violent as you attempt to take out your fellow competitors with an assortment of weapons.

Golden Axe II is the direct sequel to the Mega Drive version of Golden Axe. It does not stray far at all from the original game, retaining the same characters and basic gameplay – one could accuse the game of being more of an expansion than a real sequel.

A NES heavy weekend.

Mega Man and Mega Man 2 (NES)

Kid Icarus and Rygar (NES)

Wizards & Warriors I, II & III (NES)

The Legend of Zelda (NES)

Mega Man 2 (NES)

Wild Gunman (NES)

Kid Icarus (NES)

Death and Return of Superman (SNES)

Terranigma (SNES)

Shadow of the Colossus Collector's Edition(PlayStation 2)

ICO Collector's Edition (PlayStation 2)

Final Fantasy V Advance (Game Boy Advance)

Clock Tower (PlayStation)

Castlevania: Vampire’s Kiss is a retelling of the PC Engine CD game Akumajou Dracula X: Chi no Rondo, where Richter Belmont ventures into the castle to rescue his girlfriend Annette, who has been kidnapped by the Dark Priest Shaft, a servant of the castle’s master, Dracula. Despite being considered to be inferior in every way to the original, Vampire’s Kiss now commands a ridiculous price on the secondary market.

With the Sochi Winter Olympics starting tonight, I thought we’d feature the weirdest game associated with the Olympics – Izzy’s Quest for the Olympic Rings. The platformer stars the mascot of the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, Whatizit, better known as Izzy. Unfortunately, the game isn’t particularly notable and the character is considered one of the worst Olympic mascots.