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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Sega Saturn
RPG
Lucious pastal shaded anime adventure springs to life on the Saturn. Painstakingly detailed sprite world with vibrant cut scenes from the popular Lunar world.
Famicom Cart
RPG
Combines the first two adventures on the series on one rather large cart. Also includes a fold out map with the layout of the two worlds along with a paperback guide book/instruction manual in full colour with plenty of screenshots and illustrations. Highly collectable.
Famicom Cart
RPG
Similarities to Goemons escapades as players must negotiate the hoards of enemy fighters but then be rewarded for a hard days work with a stay in a traditional Japanese inn. The use of Ninjutsu makes good use of the ninja element to the game and separates it from the fantasy RPG genre with a more traditional, ancient Japanese setting.
Nintendo 64
Sports
Impressive sense of speed and decent draw distance as sharp reflexes are need to combat the tight corners and keep your bumper ahead of the opposition. The feel of Sega Rally is in there: perhaps no surprise given the team that developed it contained some break away members of that mythical programming team.
Famicom Cart
Platform
Takahashi is the star of the Adventure Island series and fans of that and Wonderboy will be right at home. The fairy character tosses projectiles out to help clear a parth through the colourful levels from an innocent age of gameplay. Plenty of opportunities to savour the Break Out style bonus levels. Proper title: Takahashi Meijin no Bug tte Honey.
Mega Drive
RPG
The final slice of Shining Force on the 16 bit platform that left fans awaiting the 32 bit sequels with real anticipation. Graphically squeezes the Mega Drive for all its got and the results are pretty amazing. Its easy to see why many miss the innocence of the 16 bit sprite worlds looking at this. Imaginative, engrossing, enthralling, engaging: enjoy.
Gamecube
Sports
Beautiful courses and the opportunity to make your own character with a clever analogue shot system to make this club the competition. A formal approach to the sport with a good variety in courses from desert, to mountainous, to volcanic island via Egypt.
Gamecube
Platform
To tire of Mario is to lack a zest of life itself, such is the childlike twinkle in Miyamoto sans eye that shines through like the dazzling lens flair in ample evidence. Certainly exudes sunshine and a wondrous gaming world to explore.
GameBoy Color
Sports
A real work out with press-ups, climbing poles, climbing walls, running with weights. Luckily its a lot more fun to play, especially with the over the top commentator to encourage you on to the goal. Known as Muscle Ranking.
Famicom Cart
Platform
A time travelling money should come as no surprise as plenty of moneys have been dispatched into space ships over the years. This one is handy with a boomerang to clock a few choice dinosaurs or sharks. Its possible to transform into a mech style monkey (being a Bandai title) and also to traverse levels in a shoot em up style in the ship that delivers the player to the different time zones.
Famicom Disk System
Platform
Delightfully old school platform shooting as Square begins on its quest to become one of the finest developers in the world. Humble roots can be found here, but the attention to detail shines as beautifully as the sunshine level.
Also known as Hao Kun no Fushigina Tabi and known in the West as Mystery Quest.
PS2
A Bit Special
One of the first releases in Japan for the PS2, it is only recently the delights of Fantavision have blasted back into the limelight boosting its price on the second hand market. Long may Sony continue such experimental titles.
PS4
Shoot Em Up
Dream compilation for the new and old generation with the Famicom and Arcade versions of Tiger Heli: Toaplan show their flair for explosive onslaughts as players pilot the helicopter through 1942 style warfare based levels. Gameplay is well thought out and most importantly fair. A very solid Famicom shooter that lead to the Ultimate Tiger sequel, also conveniently included in Arcade, Twin Cobra, PC Engine, Famicom and mega Drive incarnations:
Vertically scrolling helicopter based blaster. Think 1941 with copters for planes. Taito once again showing its expertise in crafting very competent shooters. Also known as Kyukyoku Tiger.
Finally includes a bit of side scrolling fight action in Get Star for some light relief from the bullet barrage.
Switch
Shooter
Few will forget their first blast on Kikikaikai. The initial barrier was to be able to pronounce it to the local importer in the pre-internet days. And despite being just the early nineties, few gamers were sufficiently cross-pollinated with games of its ilk to understand the ensuing cultural chaos. Not that it requires understanding with fast paced shooting fury the order of the day. Yet a randy raccoon tanuki friend that can deflect shots with his tail did raise a few eyebrows. The Shinto inspired Japanese blaster draws on mythology as necks extend inexplicably and one-eyed umbrella ghosts hop past. Cultural references aplenty all in a luscious sprite-based world driving gamers on to see more. Unrelenting pace as you the priestess battle against all the evil of underworld armed with nothing more than a purification branch. A Super Famicom classic well-worthy of this fine update and hopefully new and old audience with new playable characters. Known in the West as Pocky and Rocky Reshrined.
GameBoy Color
Simulation
Off-shoot of the mega series with authentic avatars and card-based combat as players explore the Shin Megami world and meet its mystery inhabitants.
GameBoy Advance
Sports
Wrestling simulation in a first person perspective similar to ‘Fist of the North Star’. A plethora of Mexican wrestling masks and luminous lycra leotards backed up by an interactive anime story mode with all the Chinese characters simplified by syllables written above.
Sega Saturn
Sports
More arcade feel than other games of this stable. It’s hard to explain the feeling of nurturing a young foal into the derby winner. But it’s good!
Super Famicom
RPG
Miyamato’s masterpiece deserves every superlative ever heaped on it, yet it remains as humble as lead character Link. A wonderful story that shines bright like one of the torches in the castle’s darkest, dank gaming dungeons. Miyamoto’s dream world turned into a gaming reality for all to behold. The finest RPG ever?
Super Famicom
One on One Beat Em Up
Neo – Geo classic giving the SFC architecture a full body work out. Mana from heaven for old school 2D grapple fans. Pushes the hardware to near breaking point, and whilst in can’t quite match the mega memory cart and sprite handling capabilities of its Neo Geo counterpart, KAC have pulled out all the stops to at least give it a black eye and thick lip. Play as Ryo or Robert on their quest to rescue Yuri from the clutches of bad guys in South Town.
Super Famicom
Sports
Suitably whiny engines and break neck speeds exploiting Mode 7 like the manufacturers make the most of their cars. Classic old school racing with the simpler pick up and play mechanics many pine for.
Sega Saturn
A Bit Special
Rumoured to be an exploration into the possibility of doing VF 3 on the Saturn, J-Pop music video editor for fans of the top selling artist. Involvement of the legendary AM2 on the project.