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SKATEBOARD JOUST (ZX SPECTRUM)
Things are a bit of a mess here at VGJunk Towers right now, because we've got the decorators in. The house looks like an explosion in a charity shop from a universe where vacuum cleaners were never...
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THE TRIVIA MONSTER (COMMODORE 64)
Another short(er) article today, as I look at a game that combines the twin terrors of realising your own intellectual limitations and of being eaten by a monster. It's Cosmi's 1984 Commodore 64...
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ROBO ARMY (NEO GEO)
I'm guilty of doing this, but it seems unfair to always describe side-scrolling beat-em-ups as "walk to the right and punch things." What about all the other facets of their gameplay experiences, such...
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ADVANCED LAWNMOWER SIMULATOR (ZX SPECTRUM)
What's your all-time favourite videogame? Super Metroid? Metal Gear Solid? Sonic the Hedgehog 2? Well, you're wrong. Today's game is your favourite, you just don't know it yet. I know it's a bold claim...
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BLOODY AFTERNOON (AMIGA)
As an English person - and particularly as a Yorkshireman - I find I'm unable to hear the word "bloody" as anything other than a mild swearword used mostly to express frustration or contempt. If...
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JACK THE RIPPER
The year is 1888, and on the dark and foggy streets of London Jack the Ripper goes about his murderous business without a clue that in a century hence his macabre deeds will end up as background fluff...
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DIET GO GO (ARCADE)
Diet Go Go might sound like a Chinese energy drink banned by EU law because of its wildly carcinogenic ingredients, but it's actually a 1992 arcade blow-em-up-em-up by Data East. See, it's got a title...
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THE REN & STIMPY SHOW: SPACE CADET ADVENTURES (GAME BOY)
Today I'll be writing about a low-effort, licensed Game Boy platformer based on a property that I actually like because apparently my life requires more misery and that misery should be monochrome and...
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TOUGH TURF (ARCADE)
You know, when I first started writing VGJunk it wasn't my intention to cover as many side-scrolling beat-em-ups as I could. It just sort of... happened, this tendency of mine to gravitate towards...
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CAPTAIN COMMANDO (ARCADE)
Five years. Five years I've been writing VGJunk now. "I'll write about videogames," I thought to myself all that time ago, "it'll be fun." And you know what? It has been fun, even with the occasional...
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BATTLE OUTRUN (MASTER SYSTEM)
One of the great pillars upon which the videogame industry is built is a process I personally think of as "angrification," where gentle, peaceful concepts are given a crispy coating of violence....
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LEGACY OF THE WIZARD (NES)
They say the family that plays together stays together, so the family that fights the awakened terror of an evil dragon together are probably going to be pretty tightly knit. Child protection service...
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EMPIRE CITY 1931 (ARCADE)
Today at VGJunk: crime! Prohibition-era gangster crime, with tommyguns and men in hats and everything. Most of the crime is perpetrated by the hero, who murders an absolute ton of people. He's not so...
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TIMECOP (SNES)
Timecop is the story of Johnny Time, a tough but honest cop who performs his duties admirably. There's just one problem: he never has enough time, not to bust all the perps in the city and still have...
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SOOTY AND SWEEP (COMMODORE 64)
British people of a certain age, brace for a possible attack of The Nostalgias. Everyone else, prepare to learn a little about British children's television. Every one of us should buckle in for a...
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OPERATION THUNDERBOLT (SNES)
Ancient Greek playwright Euripides apparently once said that "ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head," and putting aside a very literal interpretation - of course they would, one...
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ROLLING THUNDER (ARCADE)
Last time out, I wrote about a game starring a lone and embarrassingly under-prepared soldier taking on a vast terrorist army, and I complained about how unfair and difficult it was. Today's article...
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ANIMAL KINGDOM (AMIGA)
Overseas readers may not know this, but here in Britain 2016 will see the introduction of the Factual Animal Knowledge Exam, a mandatory government test that will decide your fitness for preservation...
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SCARE BEAR (COMMODORE 64)
Today's game is Alternative Software's 1987 Commodore 64 release Scare Bear. That's a title that really gets you thinking, huh? Thinking of low-effort Care Bears parodies, if you're anything like me....
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DOUG'S BIG GAME (GAME BOY COLOR)
Today I'm heading into prime "only 90'S KIDS will remember this!!!" territory - and also a potential world of darkness and pain, if my other experiences with licensed Game Boy Color kid's games are...
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