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Here we have all the games in the Shop Section.
Famicom Cart
Sports
Nicely presented as players sign up to join the golf club and then hit the course with their cheeky caddy in tow. Players shots are viewed from both the third person and overhead perspectives and the game is competent is all aspects.
32X
Sports
With up to eight player games possible this realistic approach to the sport offers plenty of opportunity to unwind. Based on real courses with the hardware producing solid results.
PS2
Sports
A solid golfing game with nicely designed courses and a plethora of intriguing characters to choose from. Cash prizes can be used to buy better quality equipment. A hole in one.
Playstation
Rhythm
Konami off-shoot of the Beatmania and DDR series that allows dancers to put in their own CD and cleverly generates the beats and steps from the new CD. An array of intriguing on screen personas from skeletons to cherubs keep players entertained with their rhythmic gyrations.
Famicom Cart
Platform
Cracking retro blast as players bound around on screen with a bold palette, funky tunes and full on action gameplay. Bombs are dropped to reveal items to help progress whilst avoiding the mice and the hot pursuit of the gun wielding authorities. A superb license that shouldn’t be missed.
Famicom Cart
Action
Sequel to the cracking retro blast as players bound around on screen with a bold palette, funky tunes and full on action gameplay. Bombs are dropped to reveal items to help progress whilst avoiding the mice and the hot pursuit of the gun wielding authorities. A superb license that shouldn’t be missed.
Gamecube
Action
A highly collectable GameCube title that combines Virtua On with the action of Power Stone and throws in a spot of Danball Senki. Players have their own robot persona and the colour and speed of gameplay, blending the boundaries of anime and gaming, make it easy to see why it has such a popular status. Sometimes known as Gatcha Force.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Battle simulator with pretty decent (for the Saturn at least) polygon graphics.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
War simulator trading in the original’s polygons for rendered sprites graphics.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
War simulator trading in the original’s polygons for rendered sprites graphics.
Playstation
Simulation
The third release in the series with dark anime overtones and imaginative vehicles adding much atmosphere to the air based war simulation proceedings.
Merchandise
DVD
DVD format games magazine from Japan with this particular volume being of interest to Nintendo Fans with a report on the big N show that is SpaceWorld 2000 including a first look at the GameCube and GameBoy Advance. Plenty of titles featured too including Silent Scope, Sydney 2000, Shiren 2 right through to the GameBoy Color.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Starring a special feature on Mario 64 and Mario Story with them due to be releases imminently at the time besides an in depth look at Zelda Majora’s Mask, interviews and 53 titles covered in all.
Merchandise
DVD
Plenty of in depth insight into Shiren and Grandia II, besides Jet Set Radio, Dino Crisis 2, Dead or Alive 2 and Silpheed-a total; of 58 games featured.
Sega Saturn
Shoot Em Up
Contains arcade perfect conversions of both the original and the sequel of the classic Gradius all on one CD making this collectable to shmup fiends everywhere. Gradius II updates the proven formula with a dash of graphical whizz and aural pizazz.
Playstation
Shoot Em Up
Playstation exclusive giving the designers free reign to tailor it to the machine’s strengths. A real polished gem in the Gradius family crown. Also known as ‘Nemesis’.
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.
Soundtracks
Soundtrack
Eight tracks that delve deeper into space than any Virgin manned flight. Fitting tribute to a fine series, yet the best compliment we can pay is that it stands up perfectly well as a music CD alone. Twin lasers all round.
🏆Brilliant!
Brilliant Switch
Shoot Em Up
To truly celebrate the 40th anniversary of Gradius (or Nemisis) comes this mighty compendium tribute to the master blaster with Gradius, Gradius II, Gradius II, Life Force, Salamander, Salamander II and Salamander III. A true labour of love for the series fans with the different regional versions plus plenty of modes included such as training, easy mode and a tour of the graphics that make up the series.
PS2
Shoot Em Up
In a gesture to Treasure’s fine line of high art shmups, Konami handed them free reign for their ageing but massive Gradius franchise; yet the purists need not have worried: Treasure stayed true to the spirit of the series with its adjustable power ups whilst subtly imprinting its own hand on proceedings with its trademark mega bossses, and eye popping, retina ruining illumimnations. A shmup masterclass.
PC Engine Super CD ROM
Simulation
A rare title in that it captures the atmosphere of the Japanese high school classroom. Similar to the Spectrum classic “School Daze” in the sense that being naughty is much more fun than studying, yet likely to end in failure to graduate.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
A version of the popular school life/dating sim. Features classical anime artwork to make any otaku worth their Shonen Jump go week at the knees.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
A version of the popular school life/dating sim. Features classical anime artwork to make any otaku worth their Shonen Jump go week at the knees.
PC Engine Super CD ROM
Simulation
Update of the school life simulation. Too much fun and too little study causes headaches for both you and your teachers, so striking a balance is essential. Similar to the Spectrum classic “School Daze”.
Sega Saturn
Action
Wipeout style racer with wings as it really whizzes along. Decent draw distance, not that racers get much chance to admire too far onto the horizon. Segas presentation and arcade expertise make this one to admire and enjoy from this era.
Playstation
Sports
Sleek, sensuous, slimline, smooth, stylish…. And that’s just the Japanese box design! The game that sent hundreds of developers back to the drawing board to think again.
PS2
Sports
Without wishing to sound like a car advert (and this game often looks like a car commercial), the smooth ride is assisted by the glide of the handling and the slick update of backgrounds with a high frame rate. Never before had such lighting effects been seen and the half light between light and day demonstrates this remarkably.
PS3
Sports
With five courses, around fifty models of sleek cars and up to 16 cars in online races, rev heads will be in a spin of the sheer gloss of GT5 finish. Even for a series renowned for its good looks, GT5 looks like attaining a new plateau of race game enjoyment with all the beauty of a race girl and the gritty realism of a pit lane skid out. Sony shows its gunning for pole position.
PS3
Sports
With five courses, around fifty models of sleek cars and up to 16 cars in online races, rev heads will be in a spin of the sheer gloss of GT5 finish. Even for a series renowned for its good looks, GT5 looks like attaining a new plateau of race game enjoyment with all the beauty of a race girl and the gritty realism of a pit lane skid out. Sony shows its gunning for pole position.
PS3
Sports
With an additional course, around twenty new models of cars and up to 16 cars in online races, rev heads will be in a spin of the sheer gloss of GT5 Spec III finish. Even for a series renowned for its good looks, GT5 looks like attaining a new plateau of race game enjoyment with all the beauty of a race girl and the gritty realism of a pit lane skid out. Sony shows its gunning for pole position taking full advantage of modern technology in both the visual and audio lanes. Its no revolution, just real progress.