Retro Gaming Australia

Bulls vs. Blazers and the NBA Playoffs is the third game in EA’s NBA Playoffs series, which preceded the better known NBA Live series. The pace of the gameplay is much slower than the Live series, but it does have Michael Jordan in it.

CyberTiger is a rather odd footnote in the history of EA Sports, coming from a brief period of experiementation where the company decided to try making arcade versions of their sports games to sit on shelves alongside their simulations. Didn’t go so well.

I just want to state again, for the record, that A Bug’s Life is a terrible film with absolutely no redeeming qualities beyond the fact that it ends. The game consists entirely of Traveller’s Tales’ brand of rather poor licensed game platforming.

Today’s video game ad of the day is brought to you by the fantastic acting talent of Nicolas Cage.

Once upon a time, anyone could make a football game, and people would lap it up because they didn’t really give a rats ass about licenses and real players. 90 Minutes: European Prime Goal is one such example of a time when football games flooded the market.

Zoop is a puzzle game that came out on a variety of formats in the mid 1990s. The ad is better than the game. Many of the people who worked for Hookstone, the developer of Zoop, founded Mobius Entertainment who went on to become Rockstar Leeds, developers of the PSP Grand Theft Auto games.

Enough idiots were fooled by the pretty graphics of Rise of the Robots that a sequel could be made. Of course most of the press were so eager to make up for their mistaken overrating of the original game that they savaged Rise 2: Resurrection, regardless of its actual merit or lack-thereof.

Oddworld Inhabitants’ first project, Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee was pretty damn impressive upon first release, due in large to its impressive production values. A series reboot is due for release next year.

Sega teamed up with id Software and Raster Productions to bring Quake III: Arena to the Dreamcast. It’s a pretty impressive port, but the best aspect was that you could play against PC players, provided that they ran a patch version that was compatible with the Dreamcast version.

The sheer number of Mortal Kombat II ads we have in our archive is testament to just how heavily advertised the game was. It was one of the major battlegrounds of the 16-bit era: the newly formed ESRB allowed Nintendo to soften their stance towards violence, leading to a Super Nintendo version that was on par with its Mega Drive equivalent in the gore stakes. We put this one up just for that absurd EGM quote.