Portfolio Category: segamegadrive

January 2018

A reasonable turn up to our Shmup themed meeting.  David brought a Megadrive/MegaCD combination and a SNES Jnr both connected to very heavy broadcast quality CRT monitors via component cables so the picture was outstanding.  Angela and Robert brought a PC Engine Core Grafx and a DOS laptop.  John also brought a MegaDrive.  Alex turned…
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December 2017

A great end to a good retro year.  We had a bumper crowd along to our last meeting for 2017 - quite a few first timers that heard about us at PAX. The arcade machine was in full flight with people playing R-Type (our game of the month), Puzzle Bobble, Street Fighter, Puzzle Fighter variants and…
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November 2017

A few hiccups with the arcade machine but we got it working for a Puzzle Bobble competition. A few other fighters and shmups we're played afterwards. The theme of the meeting was weird peripherals.  There was a GameCube running Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix with a dance mat, a Wii running various GameCube games that used…
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Game of the Month – October 2017

Puyo Poyu 2 (SMD) Released February 1994 Developed by Compile Published by SEGA Also on Super Nintendo, PC, GameGear, Turbo CD, PlayStation, WonderSwan, NeoGeo Pocket Colour, PlayStation 2, Arcade, Saturn, Game Boy 3DS and the Wii Virtual Console. The object of this head-to-head puzzle game is to clear your grid of falling patterns called puyos…
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