Tag: Neo Retro
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Byte Driver
Posted on this, the day of our Molyneux,
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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…
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Switch ‘n’ Shoot
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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…