Pre-Season football is typically comprised of friendly competitions in order to get your team’s fitness and skill levels up in preparation for the real thing a few months before the season starts, well Jon Hare has kicked it into over drive with early access now available for Sociable Soccer. If you grew up in the […]
Author: Matt Cawley
Sociable Soccer Better than SWOS? Preview – Matthew Cawley
I was lucky enough to meet up with legendary developer & co-founder of Sensible Software, Jon “Jops” Hare in London recently. You may recognise this name as the person responsible for legendary games such as Cannon Fodder, Mega Lo Mania and the all time great, Sensible World of Soccer. The pending early access release of […]
Retro Domination Podcast Episode 101 – New Retro Wonderland
We have past the 100 mark and have reached episode 101. The original A team are back, Daz, Tim, Matt and Sparky Mark take you through the looking glass into a retro inspired indie wonderland, but first we delve into the depths of the Legoland Discovery Centre in Melbourne, Matt take us through an impromptu […]
Assassination Classroom Movie Collection Review
Have you ever been intrigued to watch a movie just by the box art and the title? Coming from someone that hasn’t watched the Manga animated series previously, I thought to myself, its Japanese, it’s a strange concept and the name suggests killing, what could possibly be wrong?
The Universe According to the Bitmap Brothers
The Bitmap Brothers Universe Review The rock stars of gaming, the Bitmap Brothers are presented ever so elegantly in the pages researched and complied by Read Only Memory and authoritatively told by Duncan Harris. If you didn’t already know, the Bitmap Brothers were the creators of legendary games specifically for the Atari ST and the […]
Pac-Man 256 Review – Matthew Cawley
Pac is back, the award winning mobile gaming hit is now available on your favourite console. Inspired by the 256 glitch, Pac-man was designed to have no ending, as long as one life was left, the game should be able to go on indefinitely. But when the fruit counter overflows to zero , the first […]
The Amiga Years – An Amiga 500 word review by Matthew Cawley
From the team that brought you “From Bedrooms to Billions”, comes the Amiga Years by Nicola and Anthony Caulfield. When their Kickstarter campaign was announced I was instantly attracted to the idea of viewing a documentary focusing on my beloved childhood machine, the Commodore Amiga. Whilst I only owned an Amiga 500 back in its […]
Goal Scoring Superstar Hero – Jon Hare’s Sociable Soccer
My Childhood was dominated by Sensible World of Soccer on my Amiga 500. Well I’ve grown up and finally the spiritual successor to SWOS has finally been announced, Jon Hare, the brainchild of Sensible Software now under his own software house, Tower Studios has announced his new Kickstarter campaign for Sociable Soccer. Sociable Soccer is […]
King’s Quest – A Knight to Remember Review
Am I living in the past or have I travelled back in time? I turn on the news and it’s Bush v Clinton for the US presidency, I look at the top grossing movies and Terminator and a Jurassic movie are the top 2 grossing movies for the month and then I turn on my […]
OZ Comic-Con Melbourne 2015 – A Console Dominating Pre-show extravaganza
“Alright you Primitive Screw heads, listen up! You see this? This… is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart’s top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That’s right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It’s got a […]
Retro Domination Movie Review – World 1-1
“Video Games are really the training book of computer literacy,” Nolan Bushnell. World 1-1, is typically a term you would hear in any of the Super Mario games featured on Nintendo. However instead of a plump bouncing plumber, we have a 120 minute representation of the history of Atari, directed by Jeanette Garcia and Daryl […]
AVCON 2014 –“Hail to the King Baby”
For those who do not know, AVCON is an anime and video games convention held annually in the fair city of Adelaide, South Australia. The history of this prestigious event dates back to 2002 when volunteers of the University of South Australia’s Japanese Animation Society and Adelaide University’s Video Gamers Association combined their efforts and […]
OZ Comic-Con – A Retro Dominating Experience
Robert Englund, Tom Skerritt, Richard Dean Anderson, Hodor!! These were some of the names to appear at OZ Comic Con 2014, the event being held at the old exhibition building in Melbourne. So on a cold wintery morning Daz Retro and your’s truly headed out to yet another huge convention. We were fortunate enough to […]
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse
As you may be aware, I am a keen enthusiast when it comes to adventure games, in particular point and click, I grew up on games such as LucasArts Monkey Island, Sierra’s Police Quest and Revolution’s Broken Sword. When I first found out about an additional Broken Sword being in the works via a Kickstarter […]
Tetris cover – Theme A – Banjo Guy Ollie
Banjo Guy Ollie is back, Celebrating Tetris’s 30th birthday, here is his cover of the theme. Awesome Stuff!!! [youtube id=”JWraNjj68YU” width=”600″ height=”350″]