Punching Robots 2084

With Your Host, Rob Remakes

Tag: Neo Retro

  • Byte Driver

    Byte Driver is a neo-vectrex vroom vroom videogame. The vroom vroom is important because Byte Driver is speedy in a very specific early eighties arcade/home computer kind of way. It’s a game where every turn is a really wide turn, every straight a chance to try and go fast without crashing into a mine, some…

  • Switch ‘n’ Shoot

    I’m absolutely terrible at Matt Glanville’s Switch ‘n’ Shoot, a lovely but really quite difficult one switch shoot ’em up. The addition of Tempest-style “baddies clog up your movement area” to a fairly usual tap to change direction fare makes for a really neat twist on an already solid formula. BUT! As much as I…