Blackhawk or Blackthorne as it was known outside of Europe is a great run and gun, puzzle platformer. By the Blizzard Entertainment. The people who brought you this, went on to bring you the World of Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft games.
This time its a real favourite of mine on the Super Nintendo call but I also go into the other ports of the game and include a link to the the Windows and Macintosh version that Blizzard has given for free since 2013.
Final Fantasy VII played on a real PAL PlayStation. This is being recorded as part of the CGA preservation project, so there's no voice over or anything - only gameplay footage.
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Swainy's current high score on the arcade version of Renegade by Taito/Technos is 84400. Can he beat that score in this video?
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After leaving a job in commercial programming in 1982, Steve Turner founded ST Software, a few months later the company was renamed Graftgold after employing his friend, Andrew Braybrook, to assist him with programming duties.
Turner's solo projects for Graftgold included 3D Space Wars, Astroclone, Quazatron, Ranarama and Magnetron for the ZX Spectrum. He later contributed towards most of Graftgold's later projects on the 16-bit and 32-bit platforms.
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Swainy reviews the budget game Super Seymour Saves The Planet, which was the second Seymour game to be released by Codemasters.
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In this video The Drisk continues the drive, taking us through all the many sequels of the Outrun series.
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Swainy has a play of this much underrated arcade platform game which was first released in 1989.
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There were a handful of games that were released specifically for the Amiga A1200 and Banshee, by Core Design was one of them. A vertical SHMUP it took a lot of its ques from the Capcom classics 1942 and 1943. Sadly it suffers quite poorly from a high difficulty level and bad game design.
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Mads plays Battletoads Arcade for the Retro Asylum Gaming Club, January 2018. If you want to join in on the fun, go visit the forums here: http://retroasylum.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=55
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