FAMILY DOG (SNES)
Pretty much everyone loves dogs, right? I mean, what’s not to love – affection, companionship, works as both a kind of warm, furry footstool and a sentient vacuum cleaner for dealing with spilled food....
View ArticleSABRINA (ZX SPECTRUM)
The topic of today’s article? Smut, plain and simple. The ever-popular combination of sex and violence comes to the ZX Spectrum with Spanish developer Genesis Soft’s 1989 breast-em-up (and that ain’t a...
View ArticleDEATH STAR INTERCEPTOR (ZX SPECTRUM)
Two articles in a row about ancient ZX Spectrum games? Oh, but I do spoil you people. Today’s game also raises an interesting question: namely, when is a licensed game not a licensed game? Well, let’s...
View ArticleCOCOTO KART RACER (GAMECUBE)
Having looked at the site’s recent stats, it seems that if I want to drive traffic to VGJunk I should write about more games that A) people have actually heard of or B) star raunchy Italian pop stars....
View ArticleDONKEY KONG COUNTRY 4 (NES)
Okay, so here’s how I ended up writing about this one – one of the characters in the last game I wrote about, Cocoto Kart Racer, was a big ape called Bo-Bong. Naturally, this reminded me of Donkey...
View ArticleBLOODY PAWS (ZX SPECTRUM)
I’m not sure why I’ve been in such a mood to write about ZX Spectrum games recently. It’s hardly my favourite games platform ever, and it wasn’t when I was a kid, because while I did have a Spectrum I...
View ArticleCAVE OF THE WORD WIZARD (COMMODORE 64)
Cave of the Word Wizard, huh? There’s a title to get the mind racing. But what could it possibly be about? A particularly lame Dungeons and Dragons campaign? A documentary about Alan Moore’s home?...
View ArticleWAYNE'S WORLD (GAME BOY)
Today I’ll be writing about Radical Entertainment’s 1993 Game Boy version of Wayne’s World. I could cover it accurately and appropriately by simply having the text of this article be “it’s an excellent...
View ArticleCHICKEN SHIFT (ARCADE)
Here’s a quick article about the unnecessary over-complication of poultry farming. Getting eggs out of chickens is something mankind has been doing for a long time without the need for complex pipework...
View ArticleGOLDEN AXE (ARCADE)
Hone your blade, strap on your battle bikini and, I dunno, prepare to ponder the riddle of steel – it’s time to slap some skeletons and snake-men with Sega’s 1989 arcade classic Golden Axe!That’s...
View ArticleBARBIE AND THE MAGIC OF PEGASUS (GAME BOY ADVANCE)
After playing Golden Axelast time out, I’ve been left with a desire for more magic, mystery and rideable fantasy creatures. Videogames offer plenty of options when it comes to the genre, but which one...
View ArticleENDURO RACER (ARCADE)
I hadn’t actually intended on writing about today’s game, but the other day I had twenty minutes to while away so I turned to Sega’s super-scaler arcade games of the mid eighties. A pretty decent shout...
View ArticlePAC-MAN CLONE COVERS
Good old Pac-Man, eh? Where would videogames be without the little yellow lump? The first mascot character in games, a true icon of the medium and let’s not forget all those budding programmers who got...
View ArticleAGENT X (ZX SPECTRUM)
The name’s X. Agent X, and he’s here to do all the things James Bond would, apart from dressing as a clown and making sexual advances towards women with contrived names. That’s right, it’s Mastertronic...
View ArticleKID KLOWN IN CRAZY CHASE (SNES)
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, roll up, roll up and prepare to feast your eyes on a capering cavalcade of clown carnage as we seek an answer to the eternal question: just how much punishment can...
View ArticleBARNEY BEAR GOES TO SPACE (AMIGA)
You’ve heard of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, now get ready for Ursa Barney. He’s boldly going where no large hibernating land mammal has gone before in Free Spirit Software’s 1990 Amiga...
View ArticleDRAGON FIGHTER (NES)
Today’s article is about Dragon Fighter, a 1990 NES adventure by Natsume starring a main character who can transform into a… what? We’re doing the other Dragon Fighter? Well, that seems like an...
View ArticleRHYTHM BEAT (PS1)
It might surprise you to learn that I’m not a great dancer. I know, right? Videogame blogger in “dances like electrocuted chicken” shocker. Well, that’s what videogames are for. They can help you...
View ArticleEPHEMERA: SILENT HILL 2 EDITION
We’re going from the ridiculous to the sublime at VGJunk today, because after writing about “worst game ever” contender Rhythm Beatlast time out I decided to give myself a break and play through the...
View ArticleBRUCE LEE (COMMODORE 64)
Over the years, I’ve played as a lot of videogame characters “inspired” by Bruce Lee. Fei Long from Street Fighter, Marshall Law from Tekken, Forest Law from Tekken, Kim Dragon from World Heroes, every...
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