Well I’ve been putting off this game for quite a while. I finally received it on rental about a week ago, but have been too engrossed in Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter 4 (yes, still) to touch it. The lacklustre demo didn’t really impress me that much, in fact it downright put me off [...]

My new Sega Saturn Pads… Alright, they aren’t really actual “Sega” pads, more like very, very good knock-offs from China that I bought off ebay. Recently I bought myself a copy of Street Fighter IV, along with it I also got myself one of the SFIV edition Madcatz controllers. It was a good controller, but I felt I had reached my limits with it (i.e. I’d whiff 3 out of 5 of Akumas air fireballs) so I sold it on with the intention of getting myself a decent arcade stick instead. As the days rolled by indecision set in and I realized I didn’t just want a controller for fight games, I wanted one I could also use with a laptop to play ROMs of old SNES and Sega platformers while commuting somewhere.

In the early 90′s I chose my side on the console divide and went with Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Megadrive. I could of went with Mario, but Sonic seemed newer, faster and more edgy than an overweight, slow, mustached Italian. I’ve never looked back. My first experience with Sonic was Sonic the Hedgehog [...]