8bit wars – Shadow Warriors

Draughts Genius – ZX Spectrum

Sonic CD is time traveling back this year

Topic of the Week – Street Fighter 2

Rod Land: A Fairy Tale now out on the iPhone

This is a video I uploaded on YouTube a few months ago and decided to upload here on the Retro Asylum site
Joe Blade is a somewhat forgotten gaming hero, but he is in today’s 8bit wars.

So for those of you reading this and don’t know who Joe Blade is…shame on you!

Joe Blade was a game that came out in the late 1980?s and it was a game that got me hooked from the moment i saw this cassette inlay, Joe Blade was a muscle bound macho type character and that alone sold me the idea on getting this game.

So what what was the story behind the game, well if memory serves me right its to do with The world governments having a spot of bother with a gang of insane terrorists, who are holding a group of world leaders world leaders hostage.

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Retro Asylum Podcast Episode 1 - Like catching up with old friends.
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Super Metroid on the Super Nintendo is not only one of the best games on the 16bit console but also one of the best games of all times!

From the get go in this game, it draws you in with an exciting story explaining what happened in the previous Metroid game, and from when the amazing intro story ends the game truly begins to immerse you into this amazing world.

This game is simply a graphical master piece with every screen/level looking different from the preivous one, theres so much attention to detail in this game its just simply unbelieveable. But its not all graphics in this game, the game greatest assest is the engulfing game play!

Splatter House was well known for its gory graphics and violent game play when its 1st came out on the arcades, so I was amazed that this game was also available on the 8bit NES.This game looked worlds apart from its arcade counter part, but that wasn’t a bad thing at all. Gone were the the scary frightning graphics, replaced with cute cartoony style.The monster are all still there, the violence is still there and surprisingly this game really still does play like Splatter House even though it does look worlds apart.Once again you play Rick(I think) who has to save his lovely girlfriend who has been kidnapped by a monster pumpkin head.For more on this subject check it out at  http://retroasylum.com/page/3