Dudley of YesterzineIt's the most wonderful time of the year and this year the annual SMSPower coding competition has spawned 7 games all of which might have been podium contenders in previous years.
New Master System Games for 2023 - The SMSPower Coding Competition.Dudley of Yesterzine2023-04-07 | It's the most wonderful time of the year and this year the annual SMSPower coding competition has spawned 7 games all of which might have been podium contenders in previous years.
See the previous winners at youtube.com/watch?v=433wQEnzq4k from @8BitBoyUKMicro Machines The Video Games - Sega Power 72 - Yesterzine 69Dudley of Yesterzine2024-09-27 | We've been called out, so it's time to investigate the "Ace Fresh Look" of Sega Power issue 72, pausing only to be distracted by an early example of the dreaded "Yearly Update", Micro Machines 96.
And then further distracted by the genesis of the series, from a startling sequence of coincidences to how you may have played it on Intelivision. Sort of.
Elsewhere the 32X struggles to reach the number of games implied by its name and a titanic battle for control begins...
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : There's actually rareish variants of at least the Mega Drive and NES variants since Micro Machines changed their logo. The one in the thumbnail is the newer, more common one.A no format magazine - NGC issue 61 - Yesterzine 68Dudley of Yesterzine2024-08-30 | The N64's last UK games are hitting shelves, but in the UK there's no Gamecube for another 8 months. Quite the problem if, like N64 magazine, you cover Nintendo consoles only. Will a hurried name change help the newly labelled NGC magazine and will they realise there's another format they could cover that will sell 9 figures?
Elsewhere, why did the Cube launch in Japan at literally the worst possible time, do the 3 launch games measure up and which old enemy is on hand to bail Nintendo out?
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : The Cube was called the Dolphin in development. If you look closely at the Wave Race section you'll notice the tutorial is in "Dolphin Park" and this is also why the most famous emulator is called this.
00:00 Intro 02:53 Nintendo launch a Cube 07:15 A magazine with no Machine 14:46 Luigi's Mansion 20:54 Wave Race Blue Storm 26:53 Super Monkey Ball 35:17 Back Page - Between the ScanlinesDead on Arrival, the many lives of Saturn+ - Yesterzine 67Dudley of Yesterzine2024-07-26 | Saturn + magazine launched with the best of intentions alongside a near identical sister magazine. But while that magazine still exists today, Saturn+ was dead after 2 issues. And also after 4. And also after 6. We'll unwind just what the bloody hell the publisher was playing at with some of the biggest crimes against magazine buyers in history. And yet, Saturn+ is not a total loss.
Meanwhile Sega bribe their Christmas customers with a special edition and scrabble to try and make up for one of their many, many mistakes but do they risk just making things worse?
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : Having JVC's deadly skies as the lead issue 2 review is even worse than it looks. The game was never released and multiple of the developers have said it wasn't even close to finished. Our footage from SEGAnetwork is actually the Playstation version and can be seen here youtube.com/watch?v=vDIYI7lxuAo . At best Saturn+ reviewed that, at worst? They simply guessed.
(And yes, Play magazine closed shortly after this episode aired, I do apologise)
00:00 Intro 02:03 Christmas Nights 07:33 Saturn + : What the bloody hell happened? 23:58 Let's try that again : Daytona USA CCE 35:06 Back Page : Super Polygon Grand PrixCommodore Power - The Magazine that wouldnt die - Yesterzine 66Dudley of Yesterzine2024-06-28 | Commodore Power was the magazine with 3 names, 3 publishers and at least one complete change of focus but what did it take to finally kill it? We ponder this question with a look at the game that may finally redeem the reputation of the C64 arcade racer.
Plus Music, Comics, Videos, and the man that links all 3, why your local comic shop looks the same as every other local comic shop, how an internationally famous DJ started with an entirely different Top 10 and the cover tape exclusives that weren't.
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00:00 Intro 02:14 Cisco Heat 12:07 Commodore Power - The Story 28:22 The Cover Tape 37:36 The Back Page - Commodore Format Archive
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : Commodore Format would ultimately be the last major C64 mag, right into 1995. Only 5000 copies of the last issue were printed.Bomb the Bass revolutionise Game Music - Amiga Power 1 - Yesterzine 65Dudley of Yesterzine2024-05-31 | Yesterzine is now as old as the most distinctive games magazine to ever have existed. We celebrate with its premiere issue but that was a very different beast.
Elsewhere, the pioneers of licenced music in games, is the free cover game worth the price and what are the best 100 Amiga games ever?
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#AmigaPower #Amayga #Amayga2024
00:00 - Intro 02:29 - Amiga Power - The Top 100 07:27 - Bombuzal 14:09 - AP of Legend 21:02 - Renegade and video game music 31:23 - Supercars 2 33:27 - Moonshine Racers 38:53 - The Back Page - Gouldfish on Games
Secret Fact for Scrolling : F-Max is a joke by AP. When they discovered they were unable to sell the back page for an advert, traditionally the most expensive page and the reason our end section is called that, they created a fake product to feature instead. They got away with it for 4 months.Bad Influence Magazine and TV Series - Yesterzine 64Dudley of Yesterzine2024-04-26 | Bad Influence, at least the 3rd best UK video games TV show of the 90s had the 3rd longest lived magazine of those shows as well. In this episode we cover a full half of those issues to find out if it was Jurrasic or just tragic.
Elsewhere, Is Jimtendo's beloved Simpsons game a nightmare, how to get a film crew arrested, who are the Door Man and Ghost Girl and who are the real SNES experts?
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Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave SoundNew Master System Games for 2024 - The SMS Power Coding CompetitionDudley of Yesterzine2024-04-05 | It's the most wonderful time of the year and this year the annual SMSPower coding competition has spawned 13 new games for the Sega Master System of a near universally commercial potential quality.
Note since this was originally put together many of the small bugs and issues have of course been fixed. most notably for me in the video. - Sushi Nights doesn't crash. - Land on my Base now has fuel. - Maxim's VGM Player now supports the FM chip - Goblin Kart Rescue now has sound and a bunch of bugfixes/UI improvements.Mario Kart Alternative - Gamesmaster Issue 139 - Yesterzine 63Dudley of Yesterzine2024-03-29 | It's 2003 and you want Mario Kart, but you own a Playstation 2. What is a boy/girl/misc to do? And while we're at it, what are Cube owners supposed to do if they want Wipeout.
The answers to all this and more as we revisit the magazine that outlived its inspiration by 20 years, play an interactive comic and discover what the Playstation 2's biggest exclusive was...
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : The missing Sega arcade feature, and we may come back to it was King of Route 66, effectively the "18 Wheel Pro American Trucker" we have at home, slightly complicated by the fact both are Sega arcade games. 18 wheel incidentally was converted to PS2/GC by XGRA developers "Acclaim Cheltenham", which was going to be the segue.
00:00 Intro 02:49 XIII 11:18 GTA comes to XBox 14:58 We have Mario Kart at home 22:52 We have Wipeout at home 33:41 Back Page : Turbo Out RunWho had it in for the ST? - ST Format 41 - Yesterzine 62Dudley of Yesterzine2024-02-23 | It's December 1992 and the ST scene is looking crowded. ST Format even are even moved to ask "Who has it in for the ST?". But there's light on the horizon, Atari have a 32-bit computer and 64-bit console in their pockets and surely those will be a success and won't cause the 2nd Global Video Games Crash in as many decades?
Elsewhere, the French do an adventure game and they may have found some kindred American spirits to go into partnership with. Also, Archer Maclean gets annoyed and the fate of the game the Falcon was designed to play.
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : As you've probably guessed, all 6 of the machines I implied were fictional are in fact real 8-bit micros, including the Corvette which is Russian.
00:00 Intro 01:56 Ween (Known as The Prophecy in North America) 09:06 The Global Video Game Crash 26:29 Lynx Round Up 36:19 Back Page - Ctrl-Alt-ReesThe First Ever Interactive Movie - Your Spectrum Issue 10 - Yesterzine 61Dudley of Yesterzine2024-01-26 | The interactive movie, is anything more iconic of the early 1990s? But here we are in 1984 and Automata have somehow done one on the ZX Spectrum. Is Deus Ex Machina fun or just a disorganised fusion of technology?
Meanwhile Sinclair launch a new machine, everyone replaces their keyboard, we pay £45 to plug in a printer and we mount a defence of one of the most infamous software releases of all time.
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Music : Retro Video Game Hotzone Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave Sound
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : You can actually still buy the Zip compi1er, including the manual, as attentive watchers of the ad breaks in this years Sub5000TV already know.
00:00 Intro 01:19 Deus Ex Machina 09:25 Your Spectrum - A snapshot of 1985 26:09 The Spectrum + 30:33 Back Page : Cassette 50, the Zip Compiler and WhatHoSnorkersYouve never played these Adventure Games - Yesterzine 60 - Banana in a SealionDudley of Yesterzine2023-12-29 | It's DOSCember and we're reading early PC Zone. In it we talk about the PC's most famous genre, the point and click. But it wasn't all Sierra and LucasARTS and in this golden year for the adventure game we take a good long look at 2 you almost certainly have never played.
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : Tsunami didn't last long, just a few years in the mid-1990s. Police Quest and Blue Force creator Jim Walls moved on to Westwood where in a departure from cop games he was involved in *takes notes* Blade Runner.
#Doscember #doscember2023 #pc
00:00 Intro 02:07 Shadow of the Comet 13:46 Ringworld Revenge of the Patriarch 26:29 The Back Page Doscember and Sub5000Top 10 of 1993 - Yesterzine 59 - Portmeirion Style ConspiracyDudley of Yesterzine2023-11-24 | After partial success proving 1993 was the greatest year of gaming last month with the SNES we turn to Sega to finish the job. Does Mega's top 10 of the year contain 100% bangers and is the 3rd most popular McDonalds themed platformer the game to finish the job?
Elsewhere we look at the comprehensive and no doubt bright future for Sega consoles in the latter half of the 1990s.
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : In my defence with the 3rd/4th Madden game confusion in the video, this is a mistake Mega also make, giving entirely the wrong year for the first one.
Almost like they're really similar or something.
#genesis #sega #megadrive 00:00 Intro And 1993 03:10 McDonalds Treasure Land Adventure 13:20 The Top 10 of 1993 29:52 Sega's Future 36:30 Back Page : Sub5000TVCan the SNES do Sonic? - Yesterzine 58 - Taliskers Semi-FinestDudley of Yesterzine2023-10-27 | The playground arguments in 1993 were all "Can the SNES do Sonic?", even without "Blast Processing". The answer may come from the unlikely source of Sunsoft as we open a copy of Super Play.
First though we need to deal with the task of selecting the best game from the SNES's first year in the UK and number 7 might surprise you. And F1 comes to the Japanese SNES in a game that might looks strangely familiar...
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : Despite knowing nothing about beat em ups, that is me playing SF2 in 60hz. I got all the way to M Bison before being utterly pummelled into the floor. That is my US Sonic and Japanese SNES in the thumbnail too and yes, the choice of 2 non-UK mismatched regions is also deliberate.
00:00 Intro - 1993, the best year? 04:06 Human Grand Prix 14:52 Game of the Year 1993 22:41 Road Runner Death Valley Ralley 34:04 : Back Page - The Big Red Arrow ClubTop Gear 2 vs Lamborghini American Challenge : SNES Racing RoyaltyDudley of Yesterzine2023-10-13 | In the same month of 1993 the SNES got 2 legendary racing games from the Amiga, although name changes mean they might not have realised it. Amiga Power editor Jonathan Davies reviewed both for Super Play just 1 % apart. Yesterzine passes judgement and explains where these games came from.
But which is better? There's only one way to find out.
Originally included in Yesterzine Episode 22 - Crapping Hell it's Your Mum!
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#topgear #lamborghini #snesPC Gamer - The Last Cover Disc - Yesterzine 57 - Elaborate Winamp PluginDudley of Yesterzine2023-09-29 | 12 years ago an almost forgotten issue of PC Gamer got released. But 231 has a secret, and brings to an end a 20 year era where for magazines, sometimes it wasn't what was on the inside that counts.
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : Unreal was the last Epic "Megagame", the company changed name to simply Epic games the year after its launch.
00:00 Intro and Background 05:22 What order is a magazine written and demo overview 10:30 Deus Ex 11:53 Unreal 13:59 Half Life Uplink 17:32 Disc Round Up 23:30 Let's talk about Sims 28:44 Garbage Truck Simulator 2011 35:04 Back Page - Amiga Addict
#DeusEx #halflife #eurotrucksimulator2Dizzy spin-offs - A dizzying number of games!Dudley of Yesterzine2023-09-15 | Dizzy had a surprisingly short commercial life, really just 5 years. But into those 5 years Codemasters not only packed 7 mainline platform adventure titles but also 5 spin offs.
We take a look at Dizzy's lesser known appearances, from exciting Pac-Man's lawyers to exciting Toobin's lawyers to annoying friend of the channel RoseTintedSpectrum.
Originally included in Yesterzine Episode 32 - Supermarket Brown
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#Dizzy #codemasters #cpcRetro Inception - Retro Gamer from 1 to 250 - Yesterzine 56Dudley of Yesterzine2023-08-25 | Considering it was lucky to make its 2nd birthday, somehow Retro Gamer magazine turns 250 issues, this month. The magazine is now old enough to cover games newer than itself.
And so are we, we look at Retro Gamer issue 1, what makes it special, what's different to today and how much of it could have been written yesterday. Plus why is issue 1 more expensive than issue 249?
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : The lost articles that were written for the RG19 that never was did get published in a disk magazine called "Retro Survival".
#RetroGamer #SNES #genesis
00:00 Intro 03:14 A Tour of Issue 1 14:23 The Coverdisc 19:05 The Top 100 Games ever 35:28 Back Page : Retro Gamer 250Unfinished Games - The Amiga Power Scandal!Dudley of Yesterzine2023-08-11 | Amiga Power never reviewed unfinished games, they were very proud of it. But then they did. 3 times. In 3 months. What happened and why? And was anyone misled?
Originally included in Yesterzine Episode 24 - Fighting Through Idiots
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#amiga #sensiblesoccer #housemarqueIs Resident Evil still worth playing? - Yesterzine 55Dudley of Yesterzine2023-07-28 | In 1996, EMAP tried to revolutionise the magazine world with in depth, adult writing about games. The target this month, Resident Evil which I've never really tried to play until now. Elsewhere, how 4 nerds working on a diskmag invented a genre, and how their publisher coped with their loss.
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : The Pinball specific name for Apogee/3D Realms was "Pinball Wizards" but used only for Balls of Steel, released after the company name change. It has a Duke Nukem table in it.
#residentevil #dukenukem #playstation
00:00 Intro and the Magazines grow up 04:18 Resident Evil 20:09 Apogee / 3D Realms / Id / Duke Nukem 35:22 Back Page - Sir Richard PitchardWhats on the Disc? How to fill a CD cover disc in 1994.Dudley of Yesterzine2023-07-07 | It's 1994 and CDs are very new. PC Format decided to put one on a cover but when a game demo took up less than 1MB how desperate do you get to find things in order to fill it?
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Background Music : gbmmusic.ukEdge Issue 50 - Yesterzine 54 - Arnold SummersDudley of Yesterzine2023-06-30 | We're dressed up for a birthday party right in the middle of the greatest generation of video game consoles. We celebrate this generation by somehow managing to play absolutely no games on any of them.
We do though, meet a legend at the height of his powers, look at the gaming landscape circa 1997, play an adventure game from the 3rd greatest exponents of the art and attend the launch of SNK's difficult 2nd album.
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : Yes seriously, A muted trailer for GTA 5 trips the copyright bot but including a full 20 seconds of the Beatles is just fine.
00:00 Intro and 1997 State of the Union 10:17 Broken Sword 2 (PC) 19:42 An interview with Ken Kuturagi 32:34 The Hyper Neo-Geo 64 and Round Trip/Roads Edge 39:58 The Back Page - MomentvmThe One Amiga 24 - Yesterzine 53 - Guaranteed Against CorrosionDudley of Yesterzine2023-05-26 | It's AMayGa and we're looking at The One, but not as you know it. September 1990 brought a platformer of note and the coming of age of a legendary Amiga dev. But did everything they do turn to driving game gold?
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Bonus Facts for Scrolling : The Venus and Zool comparison isn't spurious, they're programmed by the same person, George Allan. Switchblade 2 (in the intro) is also one of his.
I actually knew the pronounciation of Barry Leitch ahead of time, because someone clearly only described it audibly for Super Cars. In the credits for that game it's misspelt "Barry Leech"
If you have Lotus 3, try "Gamesmaster" in RECS to play the course used for a challenge on that show.
00:00 - Intro, the history of The One 02:51 - Venus The Fly Trap 11:46 - Magnetic Fields - Early years 23:14 - Magnetic Fields - Lotus Games 35:51 - Magnetic Fields - The Post Lotus Years 42:10 - Back Page - Horizon Chase Turbo / Barry Leitch
#Amayga #Amiga #theoneAmtix 16 - Yesterzine 52 - Interesting Detective WorkDudley of Yesterzine2023-04-28 | Crash and Zzap are iconic magazines but so many fewer people remember its CPC based sibling Amtix. We pick up a late run copy of the magazine and run into a game that may have inspired a legend, a game that may have been inspired by a legend and a game that may have wrecked a legend.
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Bonus Fact For Scrolling : There's a 2nd Miami Vice game, a shooter for PSP only produced in tie in with the movie 20 years later. It didn't get that much better a reception.
#cpc #amstrad #miamivice
00:00 Intro and Newsfield Publishing 05:27 Miami Vice - The Proto-GTA? 13:05 Into the Eagles Nest 25:16 Breakthru 33:22 Back Page - Doomed Colonist.Super Play 26 - Yesterzine 51 - Capitalism HappeningDudley of Yesterzine2023-03-31 | The next generation already hovers on the horizon but the barely 2 year old SNES is fighting back with....an 18 month old Amiga game. It's a universally beloved classic though but will I be joining that party? Meanwhile 1 game has 2 names and 1 name has 2 games. And can Konami follow up an all time cartoon classic with its sister licence?
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Bonus Fact For Scrolling : For the first time we don't cover, or indeed mention the gaming heaven. The highest scoring game in this issue is the cover game Finally Fantasy 3 (or 6).
#nintendo #snes #supernintendo
00:00 Intro 00:14 December 1994 - The Virtual Boy 05:10 Syndicate 18:35 Fury of The Furries / Pac-In-Time 27:46 Animaniacs 36:08 The Back Page (Barcadia)Sega Power 30 - Yesterzine 50 - Broccoli BuffetDudley of Yesterzine2023-02-24 | It's episode 50 and nothing is going right. Still we've got some interesting games to play. The heaven is a near unknown puzzle game by the creator of several very much not unknown games, the gaming hell is Sega's big coin-op conversion hope of Summer 1992. What went wrong and does the issue maybe contain a better alternative?
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Bonus Fact for Scrolling : There is another reason Test Drive 2 uses a cardboard box, it's not licenced from Sega. Ballistic thought they could get away with it and by all indications seem to. Although by the next year Accolade were releasing Combat Cars directly, licenced and without them.
#sega #megadrive #genesis
00:00 Intro 01:28 Emulation, FPGA and Hardware, a tangent. 05:27 Gaming Heaven : Popils 12:42 Gaming Hell : Turbo OutRun 27:26 The Duel - Another option. 36:27 Back Page : OKG and Announcement.The 7 REAL Problems with Retro GamingDudley of Yesterzine2023-02-06 | Everyone thinks they know the problem with Retro Gaming. And they think it'll go away if they look sad enough on the thumbnail.
Unlike them, I sometimes play games and I know the real 7 problems. Here they are.
#retrogaming #yesterzine #retrogamingcommunityAmiga Computing 22 - Yesterzine 49 - Mullet Milkshake.Dudley of Yesterzine2023-01-27 | Amiga Computing once gave a game 100% but this isn't that issue because it's not a lesson they learned, issue 22 has a 2nd 100% review in and somehow it is not the highest scoring game in the issue. Still, it gives us the chance to play no less than 5 Amiga shooting games in an effort to find out which is best and which one of them even is.
Elsewhere, Amiga Computing crown the best driving game of all time and it's one I'm very familiar with. We litigate the case.
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Bonus fact for scrolling : It's weird how short lived everyone in this issue is. Cope-Com did 2 games, Exocet (Hell Raisers) only 5. Even ARC only lasted a year. Somehow Geoff Crammond, a man working on his own mostly in assembler has to most prolific output of the episode.
00:00 Intro 02:46 Gaming Heaven : Battle Squadron 11:38 Sir Geoff Crammond and Stunt Car Racer 20:05 The News Section 23:08 Gaming Hell - Hell Raisers 29:59 Back Page : DigitiserMaster System £100 Challenge - What should you buy.Dudley of Yesterzine2023-01-18 | The Americans are doing $100 challenges with some machine called the "Ninjutsu Enby Spatula" or something. No idea what that is but on an unrelated note here's the best Master System games if you have £100 to begin a collection.
As of writing this, Crash Dummies, Shanghai and Super Monaco were out of stock. They all make frequent appearances and you can click an "email me" link to be alerted.
#mastersystem #sega #sonicthehedgehog
00:00 Intro and MS Buyer's Guide 02:12 Sonic The Hedgehog 03:26 Enduro Racer 04:36 Battle Out Run 05:28 Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco Grand Prix 2 06:57 Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse 07:57 The Lion King 09:31 G-LoC 10:25 Basketball Nightmare 12:13 Marble Madness 13:07 Shanghai 14:29 The Incredible Crash Dummies 15:51 Wrap up and the bit you skipped to just to see the list.PC Review Issue 7 - Yesterzine 48 - Medium Length Marillion SongDudley of Yesterzine2022-12-30 | It's Doscember and we crash right into the middle of the era with May 1992's PC Review. The PC is JUST overhauling the Amiga as the graphical fidelity computer of choice but it's still no means a slam dunk. In our sights 2 games that both have a very similar fault and one very weird shared trait but otherwise nothing in common.
And then we look at the buyer's guide. What were people buying 30 years ago and crucially, how much did it cost?
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00:00 Intro 01:39 A lesson in PC Graphics 04:30 Gaming Heaven : Another World / Out of This World 12:24 The 1992 PC Buyer's Guide 26:09 Gaming Hell : The Taking of Beverly Hills 32:24 The back Page
Bonus Fact For Scrolling : Did you notice? Both Another World and Beverly Hills start without you having any input in the proceedings, both will kill you quickly if you don't touch the controller and both of them will kill you instantly and repetitively.
Weird that 2 games so different otherwise share traits which, especially in the case of the first one, are really not common.
#doscember #pc #anotherworld #magazineIn Defence of Tiertex - The trial concludes (Part 2 of 2)Dudley of Yesterzine2022-12-09 | Tiertex are infamous for bad ports and worse original games but that's not the impression I got of them on the Master System. So let's play them all, including the 2 the UK never saw and settle this.
As the trial concludes we play Strider (twice), a Sonic the Hedgehog game you never bought and teh most obscure post of possibly the least obscure game.
(Part 2 of 2)
#mastersystem #sega #segamastersystem
00:00 Intro 00:48 Strider 03:48 The Flintstones 07:19 Super Kick Off 10:03 Word Class Leaderboard 12:47 Sonic's Edusoft 15:57 Strider 2 19:12 Olympic Gold 22:15 Winter Olympics Lillehammer 94 26:41 Fifa International SoccerIn Defence of Tiertex - Was the SMS their Master System?Dudley of Yesterzine2022-12-02 | Tiertex are infamous for bad ports and worse original games but that's not the impression I got of them on the Master System. So let's play them all, including the 2 the UK never saw and settle this.
(Part 1 of 2)
#mastersystem #sega #segamastersystem
00:00 Intro 03:56 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade The Action Game 06:30 PaperBoy 09:32 Gauntlet 11:37 Impossible Mission 14:08 Ace of Aces 16:42 Heroes of the Lance 19:07 Mercs 21:40 Ms Pac-ManSega Master Force Issue 1 - Yesterzine 47 - About Eight MinutesDudley of Yesterzine2022-11-25 | A UK run off between the two big 8-bit consoles occurs as a month after launching a NES only magazine, Impact launch a Master System one. N-Force was dead seconds after Master Force hit the streets but can history's greatest console make a better showing?
To help, 2 licences. One I've already called a 7/10 game and one getting a kicking that surprises even me. And why do I refuse to play the other reviewed game?
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Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave Sound
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : Depending on who you talk to, there's about 267 UK games in all. Robocop 3 would be included in that but the 2 Smurfs games would not. This also weirdly counts Master Games 1 (a compilation of Super Monaco / Columns and World Cup) as a separate thing but not the various forms Hang On got released in.
I don't make the rules.KGB / Conspiracy - 1 Game Many Names #shortsDudley of Yesterzine2022-11-15 | Games with different names. And why.
This episode : KGB on Amiga et alIndycar Racing 2 / CART Racing - 1 Game Many Names #shortsDudley of Yesterzine2022-11-08 | Games with different names. And why.
This episode : Indycar Racing 2 on PC.Nazi Nixie! Kronolog / Red Hell - 1 Game Many Names #shortsDudley of Yesterzine2022-11-01 | Games with different names. And why.
This episode : Kronolog on PC.N-Force Issue 1 - Yesterzine 46 - Nifty Flying HatDudley of Yesterzine2022-10-28 | Launching a single format magazine 2 years after the machine had been replaced would be regarded by some as a brave move. Nonetheless that's exactly what Impact Magazines did with the NES and N-Force in mid-1993.
Join us as we find out how that turned out and enjoy a gaming heaven by Ocean based on a movie licence. And a gaming hell by Ocean based on a movie licence. Also, how much should you price a compilation of 4 £2.99 games at? The answer may shock you!
Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave Sound
00:00 Intro 01:18 Gaming Heaven - Addams Family Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt 09:00 Gaming Heaven 2 - Super James Pond 10:02 Cover Feature - An 8-bit magazine in 1993 19:52 Gaming Hell 1 - Cool World 25:58 Gaming Hell 2 - Super Sports Challenge 37:19 Back Page - Formula Retro Racing
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : At some point Codies and Ninty made up, many of their games have made Nintendo systems legally since.Secret Command / Rambo First Blood Part 2 / Ashura - 1 Game Many Names #shortsDudley of Yesterzine2022-10-25 | Games with different names. And why.
This episode : Secret Command on the Master System.Games World Magazine Issue 1 - Yesterzine 45 - Im a Marketing ManagerDudley of Yesterzine2022-09-30 | "If Gamesmaster can have a magazine so can we" cried Games World in 1994 and they got notorious not a journalist Dave "The Games Animal" Perry to edit it. Do they manage to review every game on over 10 formats as claimed? How did Dave think 132 pages of a magazine should be filled and just what is the hottest fighting game of 1994 according to the king of beat em ups?
Elsewhere the gaming heaven is as remarkable for its hardware as its software and the gaming hell represents possible redemption for a publisher we've seen before in this same slot.
Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave Sound
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : By coincidence a game by an entirely different Dave Perry appears in the magazine, Earthworm Jim. That Dave went on to found streaming company Gakai whose technology became the backbone of Playstation Now.
00:00 Intro 01:38 Gaming Heaven - Pete Sampras Tennis (Mega Drive) 10:39 Games World - The Magazine 27:42 Gaming Hell - Who Shot Johnny Rock (PC) 35:24 Back Page - More Fun Making It and OutroAmiga Power 26 - Yesterzine 44 - Executive Lady EstablishmentDudley of Yesterzine2022-08-26 | It's 26 years since AP's last issue but we've done that so here's issue 26 why not. In AP celebrates this entirely fictional future milestone by handing 3 games scored under 4%. But do our winners include the point and click even fans of the genre might not remember, the sports sequel that surely just builds on the success of the original or the video game equivalent of going straight to video?
Meanwhile a TV series whose format means it couldn't possibly become a game, becomes a game, twice.
Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave Sound
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : If you do like the look of Knightmare on Amiga then hunt out a game called Captive by the same guy. It is going to look familiar.
00:00 Intro 01:12 Gaming Heaven : Nippon Safes Inc 14:40 Cover Feature : Knightmare games 26:08 Gaming Hell Intro and Edd the Duck 2 29:27 Gaming Hell International Rugby Challenge 33:19 Back Page The Temporal Discussion Podcast and OutroGamesTM Issue 1 - Yesterzine 43 - 15 Hired GoonsDudley of Yesterzine2022-07-29 | It's possibly the last truly huge magazine launch of the golden era. GamesTM was the multiformat gorilla of a magazine to spearhead the rise of Paragon Publishing. Then Highbury Publishing. Then Imagine Publishing. Then Future Publishing. Before all that though the gaming heaven is the coming of age for a legendary series and the gaming hell is possibly the final indication another had officially hurdled the shark.
And in the cover feature we finally answer the question "What is Retro?"
Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave Sound
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : The appearance of Ian Die Hard is deliberate. Bruce Willis never allowed his face in games at the time because of course games were evil but spending two hours on a 60ft screen shooting dudes is just good family entertainment.
00:00 Intro 05:04 Gaming Heaven : Grand Theft Auto Vice City 22:08 What is Retro? 30:53 Gaming Hell : Die Hard Vendetta 38:26 : Backpage Ad : Gears of GamesNew Master System Game - Mecha8 - Alested Development?Dudley of Yesterzine2022-07-01 | It's new Master System season and the 2nd of our June 2022 double bill is Aleste like shooter "Mecha8". But is it Alesting? ("You're Fired" - Ed)
Yesterzine purchased this game anonymously. Neither Cote Gamers nor OTG paid for, had influence over, contributed to or even knew about this review until I tagged them on Twitter went it went live.Commodore Format 38 - Yesterzine 42 - Not a HedgehogDudley of Yesterzine2022-06-24 | The biggest game of 1993 involved a animal character platformer but not the one you just thought of because did Sonic ever get a 100% review? Mayhem in Monsterland did and we'll see what we think of it in 2022.
But more interestingly we'll also investigate how a magazine came to give a game a perfect score and if there were pressures internal or external that might have led them to it. While overshadowed by these events the gaming hell might not be short of a hook itself.
Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave Sound
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : There was a mobile reboot of Mayhem in 2014 but mobile being what it is that's even less obtainable now than the Wiishop emulated version.Ultimate World Cup Quiz - #PSNumber2sDudley of Yesterzine2022-06-19 | We were asked for the worst PS2 game ever.
We delivered.
#PSNumber2sBreakout Bad? - Dangerous Demolition for Master SystemDudley of Yesterzine2022-06-17 | A New Master System game for 2022, Dangerous Demolition takes a risky move by putting a spin on an all time classic. Does it succeed?
Yesterzine purchased this game and was not given any sort of discount, incentive or offer for this review. CoteGamers and Ludoscience will not see this review before you do.The One Amiga 51 - Yesterzine 41 - Chocolate Teapot Factory #AmaygaDudley of Yesterzine2022-05-27 | In December 1992 The One claimed to have "The best disks ever" on its cover. That's not a claim we're letting lie and so we critically evaluate every last byte of those disks in an extended and more literal cover feature than normal.
But of course there are games. The gaming heaven is impressively complex and 10 years ahead of its time. The game hell is depressingly complex and 10 years behind its time...
Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave Sound
00:00 Intro 01:12 Gaming Heaven - Legends of Valour 10:38 Cover Feature - "The best disks" 28:41 Gaming Hell - Bunny Bricks 35:24 Back Page - Super Jimtendo
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : Creatures dev Apex went onto to do something else even more infamous... but more on that next month.
#Amayga #CommaydoreSega Master System : Why you should play it. #mycoolmachineDudley of Yesterzine2022-05-01 | As part of a collab with some wonderful people where we all defend a machine we love, here's 2 minutes on why you should have given the Master System a lot more love than you have, especially if you're from the US or Japan.
Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave Sound
Music : Retro Video Game Chicken Run Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS) Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS) Licenced by Shockwave Sound
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : The UK was by no means the last market for the Dreamcast, Japan got games from Sega for another couple of years but Sega were already full tilt into releasing games on all the major formats by the time Dreamcast Magazine closed.
00:00 Intro 06:11 Freestyle Scooter 12:12 Conflict Zone (Content Warning) 21:36 Heavymetal Geomatrix 25:51 Evil Twin 29:57 Cannon Spike 35:49 Intrepid Izzy and CloseMetabolis - My First Ever Video Game - A Spectrum 40th Birthday tribute #Zxspectrum40Dudley of Yesterzine2022-04-22 | It is the 40th birthday of the ZX Spectrum, the machine that gave me and innumerable people their start with computing and video games. I've tracked down the long forgotten name of the first video game I ever played and for the first time in 35 years I'm playing it.
Is it good? Is it bad? WHAT IS IT?
With the voice of Rx : twitter.com/shadowfalconProbe Entertainment - Their First, Their LastDudley of Yesterzine2022-04-08 | Probe were prolific conversion specialists for 15 years with a reputation for technical excellence. But their first and last releases were original titles. How do they hold up, and find out what else you love has been Probed.