Episode 13 - Max Payne

When Street Fighter 2 first released in arcades in 1991, it single handedly revolutionised the fighting game genre.  It introduced shocking concepts like letting you select more than one character!  A...

13 Joulu 20211h 40min

When Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom was released in 2002, it was not to a fanfare of fervor or excitement.  This was the 6th title in Impression Games’ city builder series, and it was widely view...

29 Marras 20211h 42min

From the very moment Jet Set Radio released, it wowed its audience.  It blew people away with its at the time revolutionary cell shaded graphics, and boasts an undeniably funky soundtrack, with banger...

8 Marras 20211h 18min

Star Wars: Podracer launched with a bang.  It wasn’t the first Star Wars game, but it promised something that the world had been waiting for 16 years: a new movie.  With only a few short segments of t...

25 Loka 20211h 12min

Once upon a time there was a genre known as the Rail Shooter.  Before developers had mastered free traversal in 3D spaces, they instead popped players on a fixed rail and took them through a series of...

11 Loka 20211h 10min

Back in 2005, a Russian studio called Ice Pick Lodge decided to continue the fine tradition of dark and dreary slavic storytelling with Pathologic, a survival horror game quite like any other.  It rec...

27 Syys 20212h 21min

In Space Channel 5, you take the role of space journalist Ulala as she uses interpretative dances to fight aliens, rescue hostages and defeat her fellow colleagues.  If that sounds absurd, that’s beca...

13 Syys 20211h 10min

When Panzer General first released in 1994, it revolutionised the war gaming genre.  It was more accessible, easier to understand and more cleanly illustrated than any other war game to come before it...

29 Elo 20211h 21min