We live in an era when the world may be in crisis, but the video game industry, including the indie and Game Boy homebrew industry, is blossoming. We have had so many great Game Boy homebrew titles in the last couple of years. Titles like Infinity, Dragonhym, Gumball in Trick or Treat Land and many more just go to show that this part of the industry can produce stand-out titles.…
Category: Retro Review
In an act to preserve gaming, we do review old games from the PS3/Xbox 360 era all the way to the first home console.
Gumball in Trick – or – Treat Land (GBC) Review
Gumball in Trick – or – Treat Land is another new Game Boy Color game. Joining the likes of Infinity, Wicked Plague, and Dragonhym, Gumball in Trick or Treat Land is an ambitious homebrew title with production standards that exceed those of many official titles from big studios. The game is a turn-based role-playing game inspired by titles such as Earthbound and Undertale.…
RunieStory Review (GBC)
RunieStory: A Fantasy Life is a recent indie Game Boy Color game developed by Spicyfuse and first released in 2023. The game can be played on original hardware via a flashcart, or on an emulator on anything from a PC to an Analogue Pocket. Of all the recent role playing games to hit the GBC such as Zephyr’s Pass, Infinity, and Dragonhym, RunieStory leans more into the life simulation/ farming simulation genre, and this difference leads to the game being slower paced.…
Goldeneye 007 NSO – Retro Review
Of all the N64 classics, Goldeneye 007 is the elusive game that managed to avoid re-release for over two decades. Created by the fabled UK development studio, Rare, and released in 1997, it was a game that set the standard for console first-person shooters. In the mid-1990s, Nintendo held the rights to the James Bond film GoldenEye, and they tasked their trusted partner, Rare (or Rareware), with developing a game based on the property.…
R36T – Emulation Handheld – Review
Twenty years ago, Nintendo held the keys to the handheld gaming market. Sega had challenged them with the Game Gear in the 90s, but the Game Boy Pocket, and then the Game Boy Color had comfortably outsold them. Then later, Sony came along and almost outsold the Nintendo DS (for a while) with the high-powered PSP.…
The Angry Video Game Nerd 8 – Bit Review (Nintendo Switch)
The Angry Video Game Nerd pioneered comedy game reviews on Youtube. James Rolfe, the man behind the nerd, has been making films since he was a child, and found success with the shortform gaming reviews that he engaged in while playing the character of The Angry Video Game Nerd. The early videos date from 2007-2009. Rolfe has gained so much popularity that he has already had videogames based on his character release.…
N64 Everdrive X5 Review
The N64 was home to some groundbreaking games that set the standard for games in their genre. Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64 are two such titles. Those two games are probably the most influential games for 3D movement and level design of their generation. Arguably, the Playstation didn’t have as many great core titles as the N64, but it did have a great diversity of games available and had titles for every genre you could imagine.…
HiSpeedido GBA IPS Screen Kit (non-laminated) Review
The original GBA was a console that was surprisingly powerful in comparison with previous Game Boy models. Nintendo’s philosophy of making the most of old technology was clearly present in the Game Boy line. However, with the successor to the Game Boy Color Nintendo intended to give fans a powerful system that wouldn’t be a slouch in comparison with home consoles.…
D*Fuzed Review
Since Tetris was released alongside the original Nintendo Game Boy in 1989, handhelds (and later, mobile phones) have been associated with puzzle games. The daddy of the puzzle game, Tetris, has gone on to be one of the best-selling franchises in all of gaming. Others, like Bejeweled, Puzzle Bobble, and Candy Crush, have become popular with people who often don’t play puzzle games.…
Tales of Monsterland DX Review
The release of the ModRetro Chromatic has been a gift for fans of the Game Boy and its early iterations. Around twenty Game Boy games have already been released under the ModRetro branding in the past couple of years. It’s great for the community to have access to all this software, and even though these aren’t official releases, physical versions are also available.…