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VGA graphics were introduced in April 1987 by IBM with the PS/2 series. At first, they usually were not called VGA, just PS/2 graphics. It was a far bigger step than from CGA to EGA, which is probably why game designers were more reluctant to embrace them.

Ah, the Ninentdo-64. A relic of my childhood, of a life once lived. Well, actually, it would be a relic, if I didn't still own it and play my games from time to time. The N64 was at its best in multiplayer "party" games, where 2-4 people could gather around and play for hours. However, it was 2 single player games that came out on the N64 that forever revolutionized gaming. N64 was the third generation of home entertainment gaming systems produced by Nintendo, its predecessor being the Super Nintendo. N64's main competition came from the original Playstation. While many will argue that Playstation was superior in every aspect, I disagree. While Playstation had a much larger base of game titles to choose from; it was the N64 that had the "can't miss", unbelievable games of their generation. Much was said about how the CD games of the Playstation outperformed the outdated cartridge system of the N64, however, I never experienced any issues with that. I was a proud owner of the N64, and still am today! So, without further ado, and with apologies to games like Star Fox 64 and 1080 Snowboarding, I present the top 5 games ever made for the Nintendo 64!

Remembering the Greatest Games of the Super Nintendo - Part 2

Beat'em ups, which are also known as Brawlers (and belt scroll games in Japan), generally focus on one player taking on a large number of enemies in some form of melee oriented combat.  The beat'em up genre is also well known for offering co-op gameplay for 2-4 players, which for some people is a big part of the genre's appeal.  The genre should not be confused with one on one fighting games inspired by Street Fighter II, which is a common mistake some gamers make.  Though there is some shared history and crossover between the two genres in terms of characters and certain gameplay elements, they are not the same.

I first played an Amiga when I was 7; my mate Ed had a 500+ and we used to go round to his mansion house after school as often as possible to hit some Moonstone, Lotus 2 or Cannon Fodder action - ah, good times. Anyway, I quickly realised that this proper computer thing dicked all over the Mega Drive, and started to pester my parents relentlessly for one.

Magnavox released the first video game console, the Odyssey, in 1972, predating the Pong machines by three years. However, the games were all included on the circuitry; the cartridges were nothing more than a series of jumpers to select the game. When the Fairchild Channel F and the Atari 2600 released in 1976 and 1977 respectively, which both featured programmable ROM cartridges, Magnavox responded with the Odyssey2 (also known as the Philips Videopac G7000, the Philips Odyssey, and a few other names around the world). While inferior graphically and with a smaller library than it's competitors, the Odyssey2 managed to last until the crash of 83.

In the world of video games, very few companies have been as successful as the video game juggernaut we call Nintendo. They've produced brilliant consoles, and brilliant video games in the 2 decades they've been releasing them. They have a lot of them, but which Nintendo games were the very best?

My goal when researching this was to make it so any games or MIDI files I played in windows sound like I remember them sounding on my old 486's SoundBlaster Pro 2.0.

The Classic Gaming Review Archive 2.0

Many DOS games stopped working reliably when DOS was removed from Windows, starting with Windows XP. The sound could be missing, the speed could be wrong, or the game might not work at all. Windows Vista apparently doesn't play DOS games at all. Almost all DOS games play perfectly in an emulator called DOSBox, which is available for Windows, Linux, OS/2, BeOS, and Mac OS X.

This is a continuation of my series on console games that made the best use of each console's limited system resources.

From Nintendo to Playstation 2, Here Are Five One-of-a-Kind Games that Slipped Through the Cracks

Dreamcast is hailed by video game players as the machine that could have been great, but thanks to the mass popularity of Sony and its push for more advanced hardware (in some ways) Dreamcast was killed coming out of the gates; doomed to suck the smoke of the Playstation 2 and X-box. The machine itself was impressive though and brought console gamers on to the Internet before Internet gaming with consoles was even the big thing. I owned a Dreamcast and thought it was awesome, though my game collection was not a list of titles hailed by purist. However, I can still name my top five games, regardless of the mass opinion on any of these, they brought me a lot of fun for a long time.

The Sega Dreamcast is everyone's favorite hardcore system. Even when the mass market shunned it and went for the Playstation 2 instead, hardcore gamers still loved the Dreamcast to death. Although the games were some of the best and innovative of the era, sales were lacking. For the games that sold well, they were repackaged with a "Sega All Stars" label and released for a budget price. Here are the top five best games of the Sega All Stars for the Sega Dreamcast.

In 1991, a storm swept over the international arcade scene.  Street Fighter II swept the world, invigorating the arcade scene, determine the future of the ongoing home console war, and bringing a small genre fully into the public eye.  Much like Doom's effect on the First Person Shooter, Street Fighter 2 was followed by a legion of knock offs and clones, some mere travesties, and some with innovative and original ideas that would go on to further define the 2D VS. Fighter genre.

In the wake of losing the spotlight to a pack of dishonest Rabbids, Ubisoft's limbless courageous person made a dazzling comeback in 2011 with Rayman Origins, recognized to be one of the most fittingly recreations in the arrangement.

Published in the Nov 1991 YS71 issue