Upon downloading the demo of 'Space Giraffe' from the XBox Live marketplace, I have to admit I wasn't expecting anything particularly innovative. I was really bored, and I liked the idea of ...well, a game involving a Giraffe from space. When I started playing, however, I was hooked. It's games like these that make you realise how formulaic many games have become nowadays. I mean, there are a handful of genres that aside from aesthetic differences, have essentially the same core gameplay. Space Giraffe is a surreal gaming experience which has it's closest relative in the coin-up classic 'Tempest'. In classic coin-up style, for anyone who remembers ...  Read the complete review

INTRODUCTION Let me begin by whisking you back through time twenty years. Margaret Thatcher has become UK prime minister for the third time, WrestleMania III is taking place in the Pontiac Silverdome, and a short set of animations on ‘The Tracy Ullman Show’ are fast tracking their way to the annuls of television infamy. It’s a time of acid house and Rubik’s cubes; a simpler time, if you will. It’s an era when you can saunter down an average high street, wearing your pink and orange ‘Global Hypercolor’ T-shirt, and straight into your local arcading emporium. Once inside, you’re confronted by a wave of tall gaming oblongs, ...  Read the complete review