Metroid II: Return of Samus (GB)

For some reason I always assumed Metroid 2 was a NES game like Zelda 2 or Castlevania 2 . But no, the franchise jumped to the Game Boy for...

Xmas Lemmings (Amiga) (Demo)

Aww, they even dressed up the 'TM' with a bit of holly. Welcome to a special Christmas edition of Super Adventures , where I'm p...

Vice: Project Doom (NES)

Today on Super Adventures , I'll be playing this NES game for an hour or so. The Japanese call it Gun-Dec, but in America it's know...

Jewel Master (Genesis/Mega Drive)

Hi folks, I'm back! We haven't had any Genesis games in a while, so I'm going to ease back into things by vegging out in front o...

Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight (Amiga)

Here's another title I can finally cross off my game requests list: Moonstone, released for Amiga and PC way back at the dawn of the 90...

Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Parsley Jō (NES)

I played the first Wai Wai World game a few months back, and while it was alright, it had massive room for improvement. Getting all the mos...

Toejam & Earl (Genesis/Mega Drive)

Today on Super Adventures I'm inflicting my first impressions of ToeJam & Earl upon the world, though I get the feeling that the wo...

Snake's Revenge (NES)

On today's exciting instalment of Super Adventures, I'm taking a brief look at Snake's Revenge , the initial apocryphal sequel t...

RoboCop 2 (NES)

Okay, that's how you do a title screen. Shame they had to squash up the title a bit to fit it all in though; that poor letter 'B...

Mad TV (MS-DOS)

Okay, this one's called Mad TV , it was a request, and I'm 99% sure it's got nothing to do with Mad Magazine. Probably not a seq...

Judge Dredd (Atari ST)

Adventures in Judge Dredd Games - Part 2 This is the second of the Judge Dredd games, released on computers like the Amiga, Atari ST and Com...

Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie (Amiga)

I must have done something wrong in a previous life because I'm playing Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie . Ray playe...

Cadash (TurboGrafx-16)

As requested, today I'm taking a look at Cadash , on the TurboGrafx-16 console. This is a port of a 1989 arcade game of the same name, a...

NHK Okāsan to Issho: Niko Niko Pun (TurboGrafx-16)

And the latest game for my year-long epic marathon through the alphabet is... another PC Engine game. If you're wondering why I'm pl...

Total Recall

Super Adventures in Games Based on the Original Total Recall Movie Starring Arnold Schwarzennegger. I thought seeing as there's a Total ...

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (Genesis/Mega Drive)

This one's another request, Buck Rogers on the Mega Drive/Genesis. Or maybe they asked me to play the DOS version, I forget... either w...

Millennium 2.2 (Amiga)

Well, here we are. I tried to prepare myself for this with colourful games but that didn't exactly work. As unanimously requested by the...

Hovertank 3D (MS-DOS)

To find a colourful FPS, I'm going right back to the start. I want to see 8 by 8 pixel unreadable scribbles against a backdrop of wall-t...

MegaTraveller 2: Quest For The Ancients (MS-DOS)

Before you came along with your 'Mass Effects' and your 'Old Republic of Knights' or whatever, we had MegaTraveller . Space ...

Genocide 2: Master of the Dark Communion (X68000)

Holy shit I think this must set the record for the longest subtitle in video game history. Or at least the most bullshit written onto a titl...