The Retro Years

well not something thats really out of our lifes as you can still buy them in a circular form for Lydls but does anyone remember BN BN's. these were great and full of nice chocolatey goodness, they made me feel warm in my belly, mmmm. They were avalible from any supermarket and any local cornershop where ever you go now to get the actuall BN BN's you have to go to Belguim. They were there when i last went a couple of years ago, figures that a country renouned for its chocolate is going to have BN BN's. Oh and dont get me started on the biscuit that surrounded the gooey center, they made my life worth living in the 90's that and the the classic cartoons for on ...  Read the complete review

I absolutely love Retro Hence The youtube name Retro Blogs. I am in fact now wearing a T-shirt with the title 80's Revolution and it has pictures and writing of the main things that we're out in the 80's such as the Yo-Yo and personal stereos and converse. There is also an Atari 2600 joystick on there which brings me into my favorite part of the olden days. Gaming. I love retro Gaming I have loads of Retro consoles in my room such as the NES, SNES, Sega Master system, Gameboys, N64, GameCube Atari 2600 etc. I think the video games we're the best thing about the 70's/80's/90's as we could see that as time went on the graphics and games were slowly getting better and ...  Read the complete review

In 1985 Nintendo release the NES or Nintendo Entertainment System. It was an immediate success and helped pull the game industry out of its doldrums caused by the Video Games Crash of 1983. While the NES was top dog for the remainder of the 80s, the Sega Master System was stuck behind its glory. Created and released not long after the NES, the Sega Master System was a much overlooked console. It is a sad fact really: the Master System had some great games and innovative gadgets at the time and I do feel that after all these years, it really does deserve its dues. So, as a tribute to Sega’s first video games console, here is my review of the Sega Master System. ...  Read the complete review

Review on Super ghouls n’ Ghost for the Snes. I first played this game on the SNES during the mid-1990s, you play as a knight called Arthur who has to try and rescue the princess, from the evil demons who have kidnapped her. The game The game starts with Arthur and his beloved princess being together, but some evil Demons break into the castle and kidnap the princess and now Arthur must rescue her from the monsters. So can you save the princess from the terror of the monsters? You have to work your through nine daunting levels, some of the levels consist of 2-parts so it’s really like playing through 18 levels. You will fight ...  Read the complete review

(Note: I have *no* idea why the first bit of this is coming out in all lower-case. It looks fine in the DY submission box. Honestly, I haven't forgotten how to write in the time I've been away!) Those of us who started school in 1980 or so are really very lucky indeed. It's true. On the one hand, we just missed the lunacies of the National Curriculum, Records of Achievement, SATs and so on. But on the other, we got to do GCSEs with major coursework components, have a proper choice of Options at 14... and experience computing as [insert deity's name if you like, 'cause I haven't got one] intended it. Caning was abolished in the 1980s as ...  Read the complete review