Here’s my regular roundup of everything new, old and in-between under the Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #205, with some lovely (and definitely not lovely!) pickups on PS2 and PS3, and an ancient text adventure! #retrogaming retroarcadia.blog/2025/10/05/r...

Suspect screenshot or not, I love this advert for Commando.It’s got the whole game in it! #retrogaming

Glad I finally picked up a copy of Wipeout Fusion on PS2 this week but I’m still convinced I already had it! #retrogaming

Shadows of the Damned on PS3 was never the greatest but it’s still as freaky (and crude) as ever!

It’s been fun but not almost £300 per year’s worth so that’s Xbox Game Pass cancelled.

This week at Retro Arcadia we’re heading back exactly 40 years for the very latest in video gaming with Retro Rewind: October 1985 in Computer & Video Games, straight from the pages of the original magazine! #retrogaming retroarcadia.blog/2025/10/01/r...

So much to play but here I am doing Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound all over again!

What I’ve been playing… retroarcadia.blog/2025/09/28/r...

This new Silent Hill f is blooming marvellous. Literally!

Tau Ceti still sounds great but after 40 years I’m still too intimidated to try it! #retrogaming

What I’ve been playing this week… retroarcadia.blog/2025/09/21/r...

Finished Snatcher on Sega-CD / Mega-CD for the first time this weekend and the thing is a masterpiece! #retrogaming

These UFO books are great but it’s not the same without the jazzy soundtrack!

My absolute gaming Holy Grail… www.timeextension.com/news/2025/09...

Spinal Tap II is a totally unnecessary rehash of the first one, and very predictably won’t be bothering it in my top ten favourite movies ever!

This week at Retro Arcadia we’re rediscovering the groundbreaking masterpiece that is Another World on Commodore Amiga… Which took me a while to realise! #retrogaming retroarcadia.blog/2025/09/17/r...

I’ve been reunited with Lollipop Chainsaw on PS3 and it’s just as wonderfully dreadful as I remembered!

What a great-looking bunch of games we got in December 1985! #retrogaming

The Conjuring: Last Rites occasionally drags but otherwise knows how to please and please me it does.

What I’ve been playing (or a review of Hollow Knight: Silksong)! retroarcadia.blog/2025/09/14/r...

This new Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is a bit special!

Automan on Commodore 64. As bad as the loading screen suggests! #retrogaming

Today’s bad record cover.

What I’ve been playing, in the Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #201, with a review of the new NEOGEO Arcade 1 collection for Evercade and a hint of Hollow Knight: Silksong! #retrogaming retroarcadia.blog/2025/09/07/r...

Here we go.., Business end of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater!

Frankie say… 1985 was a good year for games! #retrogaming

All these years waiting then I had to wait again because I was on holiday… Finally got my hands on Hollow Knight: Silksong though, and it’s wonderful!

A few hours behind because I’m a few hours ahead but welcome back NFL! #retrogaming

Wow! That’s no moon. That’s £900 worth of LEGO Death Star!

So much promise in this Lord of the Rings advert but it was no Hobbit. #retrogaming

Today’s bad record cover.

When I return as a phantom, I’d like to haunt somewhere like Bodmin Moor. Maybe warn unwary travellers about a bottomless mire.

Things I’ve been playing… retroarcadia.blog/2025/08/31/r...

I was looking forward to this bit in new old Metal Gear!

North Cornwall never disappoints but lucky these wild winds are blowing off the sea or you’d be in there!

Some Atari 2600 RealSports Volleyball for the end of summer! #retrogaming

Making progress in new (old) Metal Gear Solid!

It’s Snake Eater time!

It’s the end of August, so it’s time for the Retro Arcadia Gaming Pickups Summer 2025 Recap, covering all the retro games and related stuff I shouldn’t have been spending money on over the past three months! #retrogaming retroarcadia.blog/2025/08/27/r...

This new Gears of War: Reloaded on Xbox Game Pass is a nice bit of big dumb fun. Quite the lick of paint too!

Always loved a VIC-20 type-in, especially when they were good enough to get a screenshot! #retrogaming

My regular round-up of everything new, old and in-between under the Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #199, with first impressions of Madden NFL 26 and the incredible Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. And more besides! #retrogaming retroarcadia.blog/2025/08/24/r...

It might not be proper Zaxxon but Zaxxon on the Atari 2600 is really cool all the same! #retrogaming

Geoff Capes and Cooper-Man. Could be a Sunday afternoon 40 years ago! #retrogaming

I know I said it before but Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound really is really good!

This week at Retro Arcadia, my top ten favourite multidirectional shoot ‘em ups! retroarcadia.blog/2025/08/20/t...