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Top 10 Spooky Halloween Retro Games
As Halloween is upon us and lots of spooky things are happening all around, we thought it would be good to list our a top 10 retro games to play on Halloween, to make it fair this isn’t just a list of games as chosen by us, but ones chosen for by some of our followers on Twitter. Frightmare Platforms: C64, MS DOS, ZX Spectrum Developer: Floppy Publisher: Accolade (US), Cascade Games (UK) Released ...[Read More]
Streets of Rage 3
With the announcement of DotEmu’s new game Streets of Rage 4, we at Orange Bison have decided to give this series a retrospective. Last time out we looked at Streets of Rage 2 now it is time for the finale: Streets of Rage 3. With Streets of Rage 3 there are two main opinions amongst the player base. The easiest way to describe it is to compare it to Marmite; some players love it and others hate i...[Read More]
Streets of Rage 2
With DotEmu announcing Streets of Rage 4 in conjunction with Sega, we at Orange Bison have decided to write a retrospective of the original Mega Drive/Genesis games. Last week we started with the original now it is time for the sequel Streets of Rage 2. Image from Kotaku.com One year after the defeat of Mr X, the trio of heroes from the original games have all gone back to their day jobs. Adam has...[Read More]
Streets of Rage
With the announcement of DotEmu’s new game “Streets of Rage 4” we at Orange Bison have decided to take a look back at one of the most popular franchises of the 16 bit Generation starting off with the 1991 release of Streets of Rage for the Sega Mega Drive. Released in 1991 during the Arcade craze, Streets of Rage was vying for the title of top Beat ‘em up’; its main challengers were Capcom’s and N...[Read More]