Retro Gaming Australia

RoboCop 3 is not only a bad movie, it’s also a bad video game. But that shouldn’t surprise you, coming from Acclaim.

Nothing says awesome video game like a platformer featuring a corporate mascot. Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest is probably one of the worst platformers of the 16-bit era.

Golden Axe is one of Sega’s greatest arcade games, and one of the headliners of the Mega Drive’s early line up. It loses some of the graphical lustre of the arcade original, but it does add two extra stages at the end to compensate.

Most men are extremely protective of their stones.

This is a wasted opportunity – they could have had Ernest Borgnine on the cover!

Because nothing says “hey check out this awesome new system” like a video game based on a game show.

Streets of Rage 2 is one of the finest beat ’em ups of all time, combining impressive graphics, an amazing soundtrack and some bone crunching action into a single package. You’ll find few Sega fans who don’t list Streets of Rage 2 as one of the finest games the company has ever published.

In honor of Super Metroid being all of 30 cents on the WiiU Virtual Console (buy it – no excuses!), we present to you the Japanese ad for the game. It’s nice and subtle compared to the US ad, which talks about Super Metroid being difficult enough to turn you into lamb cutlets. You should all totally hunt down a Super Famicom version of Super Metroid for its superior box art. There is also a full English language option.

Remember when Microsoft used to make games? I’m hard on Microsoft’s initial first party offerings for the Xbox, but Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding was one of the few good things Microsoft put out. Amped has a massive soundtrack and custom soundtrack support, near-instant loading of its massive game world, and most importantly, some pretty neat snowboarding action.

When Australians think of old video game commercials from TV, this Game Boy one is usually among those that are brought up, just due to its sheer absurdity. It’s actually one in a series of similar ads which we’ll post over time.