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The blog features hundreds of reviews for games (ps2, psone, pc, snes, megadrive and retro games), books and dvd films. Regularly updated and written by a team of leading writers.
Recent Posts
Riff: Everyday Shooter
Everyday Shooter is one of the more inventive Robotron clones to have emerged over the last few years, with attractive presentation mixing it with inventive, retro-themed gameplay to largely good effect. The action is very simple; you control a small...
January 2009 on GBF
Happy New Year! And now for a new feature – GBF’s monthly top ten. As the name suggests, it’s the ten most visited reviews/features of the past month (not including news or the ‘about’ page), in this case December 2008 - it’s just lik...
The Legend Of Spyro: The Eternal Night
The Eternal Night proves to be a most prophetic name for what is undoubtedly Spyro’s darkest gaming hour. Fans accept the series hasn’t hit the same highs in recent years as the original trilogy managed on the PSOne, but Spyro’s fall, even sinc...
Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
Off the back of three progressively more excellent PSOne releases, Syphon Filter unexpectedly took nose-dive of epic proportions in 2002 with its disastrous PS2 debut, The Omega Strain. Few series have suffered such a sharp decline in fortunes from o...
LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
When it comes to console gaming, Star Wars has had a decidedly chequered past, with a very high turnout of mediocre titles offset by only a modest selection of good ones. However, its quirky union with LEGO has lead to one of the series most memorabl...
XII Stag
Ah, if I’m not mistaken, this is one for the connoisseurs. XII Stag was never a game Joe Public was going to rush out and buy on-mass – one look at the reverse side of the games case reveals that much – instead, it’s targeted at those who wis...

