New Arrivals - Games & Hardware
All the latest games, hardware, figures, merchandise, gaming magazines etc that have recently arrived in store are here. Use the filter below to select your console and narrow your search
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Playstation
Action
A spooky journey set in the first person perspective to avoid being caught by one’s supernatural pursuer. Drips with atmosphere like the dank, cavernous walls. Known as Hellnight in the West.
Playstation
RPG
Utilises Little Big Adventure style ellipses to make up the characters and has very much the look of its era as a result. The lighting effects on the magic spells are very impressive and Sony has clearly poured its heart and soul into this realising the significance of the genre.
Playstation
Puzzle
A simple concept involving comparing two images side by side and finding the differences. Enjoyable and relaxing, yet strangely satisfying to complete the challenge. Full title: Machigai Sagashi Game Missland.
Playstation
Simulation
High school dating game where attending the right class is essential to woo your heart throb. Lovingly created, candy sweet graphics
Playstation
RPG
The painstaking attention to detail and the respectful nod to its Super Famicom forefathers in not radically dragging the RPG into the Playstation era ensured the superb series continued on from strength to strength.
Playstation
RPG
Visually a real feast for the eyes and aurally exquisite, full of raw emotion and soothing scores. Uematsu san deserves a Knighthood for getting the orchestral chip tunes to jump through hoops. The storyline is a real roller coaster: the highest tribute is the degree of attachment to the characters you feel. Known as Final Fantasy III in the West. Only sold through convenience stores in Japan making it quite exclusive.
Playstation
One on One Beat Em Up
Two rich licenses collide in a veritable pastiche of martial madness with Capcom pulling the strings. Animation is incredibly fluid – even with four characters slugging it out and play mechanics are balanced to a micro gram. A sizeable roster of colourful characters to master. Possibly the pinnacle of 2D fighting gaming on the Playstation.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Ver much a feel of the empire from Star Wars with such pageantry in deep space in this anime, inter galactic space opera.
Sega Saturn
A Bit Special
As the titles may suggest, not a game but a tour of the Evangelion artists masterpieces, all set to relaxing classical music. The art is truly stunning and worthy of a greater appreciation.
Mega CD
Simulation
Ataru seems destined for many ominous days as the priest Cherry often predicts. Caught between Lum and Shinobu and half the members of his school class (the female ones) only chaos can reign. Great digital comic game for fans of the very popular anime series where you point and click at the item to interact with. Here’s hoping the only slap you get is from Kotatsu Neko for pinching his Taiyaki. The side scrolling shooter section is a real blast.
Gamecube
A Bit Special
Nintendo have a fine tradition of challenging the gaming genres, many of which they established themselves. And Pikmin is a fine example as the wee creatures are dispatched to complete various tasks in what becomes a vey strangely compelling, highly-addictive game that is much easier to pick up and play than describe.
PS2
Simulation
A Ring style visual novel that works the urban legend spooky story to its limit with some very bizarre going on to become a bit of a cult classic.
PS2
Action
Gets right under your skin from the off as the sense of foreboding grows with each new assailant from the legions of the undead. The detail is a little too much at times.
PS2
Sports
The ultimate in gaming fantasy escape at the time of its release with a British major title being possible due to the appearance of Tim Henman in this slick tennis sim. Reveals its arcade roots in its simplicity to pick up but with a fiendish difficultly gradient after the opening rounds. The finest realistic tennis game. Brilliant with four players.
PS2
RPG
A real triple A title that brings to mind the delights of Goemons romps with a feudal Japan setting. The graphical look is innovative and feels like an animated New Years greetings card with such delightful execution. Played as the young wolf setting out on an epic adventure which we would hate to ruin. A real treat for lone wolfs from start to finish and worthy of higher accolades.
Famicom Cart
RPG
Mysterious, spiritual RPG that sees players going on a trip of enlightenment that you’d imagine would be a hard pitch for the modern day creators to their publisher. Almost as cult as the content of the game and definitely one of the most unusual stories one can encounter.
Famicom Cart
RPG
Juvei has plenty of cute, Mother-style sprite characters to join him, resplendent in his Black Jack eye patch, as he traverses the detailed RPG in this Famicom classic. Well worth investing the time that Namcot has clearly put into this exquisite adventure.
PS2
Action
GTA induces severe culture shock on the unexpecting Japanese audience who positively lap it up. The sheer scale of the project beggars belief with seemingly anything possible within the city limits and beyond.
PS3
Sports
With superbly modelled and adorable characters and a new shot system, Everybody’s Golf looks as good as ever on the PS3 as the golfer shapes up to the tee. The shot interface is easy to pick up. But it’s the attention to detail with the caddy chasing after a nice shot or the grumpy reaction at having shot a bogey that Minna no Golf really turns on the charm. Combined with birds singing, the department store soothing soundtrack and plenty of sunshine, this looks like being the definitive PS3 golf game.
Famicom Cart
Side Scrolling Beat Em Up
Sharp reflexes and a knowledge of when to fire in a fist of fury or a flat kung fu slipper sole are requisites to meet the bad boss Mr X. Ducking kicks and throwing stars in the classic arcade mould. Known as Kung Fu Master in the West.
Famicom Cart
Action
A lack of shadowing does make avoiding some of the hazards across the castle a bit haphazard for our young samurai. But the levels are well set out and Irem have designed an impressive set of depth to this action based title. Known in the West as Deadly Towers.