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
A Bit Special
A unique, refreshing experience in gaming: play as a chef in a variety of restaurants from Chinese to fast food having to prepare dishes correctly to keep the customers happy. Drunken salarymen and cockroaches provide the hazards.
Playstation
Action
Update of the highly original Super Famicom title, particularly at the time being pre-Burning Rangers, but now given a post-Rangers voice feature. On similar lines to Sega’s epic: fires must be extinguished and people rescued to progress. Each level has a particularly raging fire at the end that must be tamed before clearing the level. Nice pick up and play arcade mechanics.
Playstation
Action
The fear returns as Raccoon City is overrun by brain munching zombies. The execution is impeccable as the subtle sounds of footsteps on broken glass or the groan of a zombie unleash the sort of psychological terror only really found in the likes of Silent Hill.
Playstation
RPG
Capcom shows how it can update its Breath of Fire series with the extra processing power of the Playstation, whilst remaining faithful to the pretty glint in the eye of its first love and remaining true to its isometric roots. Lusciously lavish.
Playstation
Sports
Very fast as our mach speed mean machines seem to positively stick to the track as players whiz round the varied and colourful course in this popular PSX game well worth its nostalgia. A real test of driving skill with the cartoony handling adding to a title not taking itself too seriously and the fun in the sun shining through as a result.
Playstation
Simulation
Quite an underpopulated genre in the firework display genre. Players wander the fantasy castle setting their favourite fireworks in the correct locales and then detonating them in order in time to the orchestral score. Subtitled Fantast.
Playstation
Rhythm
Genki recalls the millennium and the crowds a fine practitioner of Beatmania could pull as players tap and scratched their way to DJ-ing glory. Not that we ever had much rhythm, but back in the day we could certain toe tap with Shinjuku’s game centre’s finest.
Playstation
Shooter
Takes a new look at the Resident Evil empire by placing you in a first person shooter scenario charging around the various zombie and rabid dog infested locales from the series. The musical score gives a sense of foreboding and sure enough a Romero reject is never too far away from lunging at you.
PC Engine HU Card
Shoot Em Up
Not your standard shooter as Robo Kid uses a unique firing system and the levels vary from horizontally scrolling to maze type. Fresh in a crowded PC Engine market place.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Pre rendered FMV graphics to this adventure of the gothic ilk with plenty of mystery and an assistant in an impossibly short China dress. Slick scenes and good voice acting as the mystery eventually unravels.
PS2
RPG
A compendium of footage and info for fans of the series which also includes a playable demo of the fine Xenosaga II, allowing players to sample its sleek, sci-fi turn based simulation mechanics. There is also a game of Japanese scrabble in there to help build up the true otaku’s vocabulary for the next Xenosaga convention.
PS2
Shoot Em Up
The legend continues with worthy conversions of two of the most solid thoroughbred stars of the Gradius stable with no slowdown. Gradius III adds a welcomed save facility for completed stages and Gradius IV has crisp, clean high res visuals as the hardware can provide with ease.
PS2
A Bit Special
A promotional disk only available from McDonalds Japan. Demo versions of Parappa The Rapper 2 and Pipo Monkey are the suspiciously hamburger orientated titles.
PC Engine CD ROM
Simulation
Absolute gem for fans of Takahashi’s gender bending Ranma. Digital comic style gameplay captures the essence of the very humourous series with some very bizarre goings on.
PC Engine HU Card
Platform
Three basic style: park, city or factory levels to be negotiated at day or night with a sword that powers up to release fireballs to help to defeat the robot or dragon boss. Reassuringly familiar gameplay for those who feel like there’s a disturbance in the force with today’s mass market fodder.
PC Engine HU Card
Shooter
Bold attempt by NEC to bring the de rigueur coin op of the era back to the home comfort of the PC Engine. And whilst the Virtual Cushion may not match the hydraulics of the arcade original, the 3D top down and in screen graphics have been suitably transferred across. The action is thick and fast and ThunderBlade adds another feather in the Engines arcade collection.
PC Engine HU Card
Shoot Em Up
WWII themed shooter with solid play mechanics and plenty of tanks to blow up and battleships to sink. You can also call in the squadron to help out when in a fix. Originally a Hu Card release also given a CD Rom update. Conversion of this title known as Twin Hawk in the arcades was licensed from shoot ’em up fanatics Toaplan.
Famicom Cart
Action
Plenty of tributes to its mighty back catalogue in game for the discerning gamer. Taking out tanks that appear in the maze means keeping a keen eye out for where they will appear, if in control of the skirmish. Otherwise it means grabbing those freeze power ups or blasting a whole in the maze to sit in, perhaps even behind camouflage.
Famicom Cart
Action
A beautiful taster of what was to come in Parodius et al. The Penguin hero of the title piles on the pounds with each hit and therefore gets less likely to make the time limit controlled end of level. Full of colourful, Konami fun and humour and a real gem of a Famicom game.
Famicom Cart
Sports
That pixel perfect presentation with Nintendo as Mario takes to the world courses with Flower of Scotland belting out, in chip-tune format, whilst playing in the UK.
PC Engine HU Card
Sports
Real test of stamina as getting the ball in the onion bag involves a fair amount of sweat and toil. Arcade style action comes into its own in two player mode.