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Tag: Arcade

  • Super Destronaut: Landed X Loaded

    It’s always a treat to get a new Super Destronaut game to play around with, they’re some of my fave new arcade games. They’re rarely difficult or especially punishing, preferring instead to focus on the simple pleasures of shooting chunky pixel enemies and watching them explode in a violent sea of colour. In other words,…

  • Play This: Annalynn

    Annalynn is a few years old now on the PC but I’ve only just got round to it now it’s got a Switch release. This past year or so has seen a handful of really nice arcade homages make their way on to the Switch so I’ve been feeling a bit spoiled rotten of late,…

  • Play This! A cracking bunch of Pico 8 remakes for your edification

    Pico 8 really is a gift. I’ll confess I amused myself earlier reading over one of those terribly cringeworthy developer profiles people used to write around a decade ago that positioned Lexaloffle’s other virtual videogame console, Voxatron, as The Future, especially when combined with Also The Future Kinect. Well. That was certainly one future that…