Games From The Black Hole
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A blog about old games. Written by Ashley Day
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Final Fantasy Tactics – Huge Final Fantasy Tactics fan excited to play it for first time
The year is 1998… After playing Vandal Hearts and Shining Force III, I long for more great tactical RPG experiences and discover Final Fantasy Tactics in an issue of EDGE magazine. I’m very m…
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Final Fantasy Tactics was the last great strategy RPG I hadn't played, and now I have I realise it's totally unlike any of its peers...
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Final Fantasy Tactics was the last great strategy RPG I hadn't played, and now I have I realise it's totally unlike any of its peers...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Great idea! Would like to see publishers do this too.
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Great idea! Would like to see publishers do this too.
One new arrival this week…
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
One new arrival this week…
Old post!
ActRaiser combined action platformer with God game and it somehow remains completely unique today…
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ActRaiser combined action platformer with God game and it somehow remains completely unique today…
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ActRaiser – Playing God
I’ve never played ActRaiser before. Maybe that’s not such a big deal. There are thousands of games I will never play. But this is one that trusted friends and peers have recommended for years as on…
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November 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Old post!
ActRaiser combined action platformer with God game and it somehow remains completely unique today…
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ActRaiser combined action platformer with God game and it somehow remains completely unique today…
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I recently wrote about one Super Famicom-exclusive game that I'm now quite fond of: rock 'n' rolling brawler-racer Zoku: The Legend of Bishin.
Racing ‘n’ Rumbling: Bishin Dentsetsu Zoku (Zoku: The Legend of Bishin)
Racing, brawling, and tournament fighting all in one game? Surely a recipe for disaster… or is it?
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November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I recently wrote about one Super Famicom-exclusive game that I'm now quite fond of: rock 'n' rolling brawler-racer Zoku: The Legend of Bishin.
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New episode! The 16-bit mega draft, featuring @gamesblackhole.bsky.social and @scarbs.bsky.social. Who can pick the best games across the SNES, Mega Drive, Neo Geo and Amiga?
Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/3G23...
Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/3G23...
The 16-bit Games Mega Draft (with Ashley Day and Dave Scarborough)
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November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New episode! The 16-bit mega draft, featuring @gamesblackhole.bsky.social and @scarbs.bsky.social. Who can pick the best games across the SNES, Mega Drive, Neo Geo and Amiga?
Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/3G23...
Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/3G23...
Sad to report I didn’t play any of these this evening and played Shiren The Wanderer 2 on N64 instead because my daughter likes the little squirrel in it.
Sorry indie devs!
Sorry indie devs!
I somehow bought THREE brand new indie game releases yesterday. Very excited to play all of these so sharing them here for visibility...
BIRDCAGE - store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/...
DEMONSCHOOL - store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
SEKTORI - store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...
BIRDCAGE - store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/...
DEMONSCHOOL - store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
SEKTORI - store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sad to report I didn’t play any of these this evening and played Shiren The Wanderer 2 on N64 instead because my daughter likes the little squirrel in it.
Sorry indie devs!
Sorry indie devs!
The old mag I won in a contest on Twitter just arrived, so that site is still good for something!
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The old mag I won in a contest on Twitter just arrived, so that site is still good for something!
I somehow bought THREE brand new indie game releases yesterday. Very excited to play all of these so sharing them here for visibility...
BIRDCAGE - store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/...
DEMONSCHOOL - store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
SEKTORI - store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...
BIRDCAGE - store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/...
DEMONSCHOOL - store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
SEKTORI - store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I somehow bought THREE brand new indie game releases yesterday. Very excited to play all of these so sharing them here for visibility...
BIRDCAGE - store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/...
DEMONSCHOOL - store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
SEKTORI - store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...
BIRDCAGE - store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/...
DEMONSCHOOL - store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
SEKTORI - store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...
Absolute psychic damage for me seeing Xbox 360 on the cover of Retro Gamer. I was reviewing new games for the former when I was first writing for the latter.
Retro Gamer 279 celebrates 20 years of the Xbox 360! The magazine also includes a 2026 Mario calendar.
Also inside: Stormbringer, Pipe Mania, Mega Man X, Real Bout Fatal Fury 2, Brian Shea, Terminator games and much more.
Grab it in shops or buy it online: www.magazinesdirect.com/uk/retro-gam...
Also inside: Stormbringer, Pipe Mania, Mega Man X, Real Bout Fatal Fury 2, Brian Shea, Terminator games and much more.
Grab it in shops or buy it online: www.magazinesdirect.com/uk/retro-gam...
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Absolute psychic damage for me seeing Xbox 360 on the cover of Retro Gamer. I was reviewing new games for the former when I was first writing for the latter.
I am on this one. For better or worse.
Coming tomorrow! The 16-bit games draft. 36 picks across Mega Drive, SNES, Neo Geo and the Amiga. Kills and steals return!
Someone picked Turtles in Time, then Dave Scarborough shared this cursed anecdote:
Someone picked Turtles in Time, then Dave Scarborough shared this cursed anecdote:
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I am on this one. For better or worse.
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The SRW Y dlc is good
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The SRW Y dlc is good
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Next up in our music game series: a big profile of Sound Fantasy and Electroplankton creator Toshio Iwai, based on a three-hour call with @radishgames.com.
Toshio Iwai's journey from Sound Fantasy to Electroplankton
We profile the artist behind two of Nintendo's attempts at making experimental music games in the '90s and early 2000s -- one a canceled Super Famicom game based on musical insects, and the other a Ni...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Next up in our music game series: a big profile of Sound Fantasy and Electroplankton creator Toshio Iwai, based on a three-hour call with @radishgames.com.
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Ys-inspired 3D action RPG Angeline Era launches on December 8 for PC Steam. It will feature a launch discount for 14 days and has also been confirmed to be fully compatible with Steam Deck, macOS, and Windows: www.rpgsite.net/news/18967-a...
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Ys-inspired 3D action RPG Angeline Era launches on December 8 for PC Steam. It will feature a launch discount for 14 days and has also been confirmed to be fully compatible with Steam Deck, macOS, and Windows: www.rpgsite.net/news/18967-a...
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This was so good. Top-tier podcasting, coming Friday.
Recording tonight! The 16-bit games draft. Samuel, Matthew, Dave and Ash will each pick from the libraries of the SNES, Mega Drive and Neo Geo.
Kill and steal rules return! Maximum four picks per platform. Here are the categories:
Kill and steal rules return! Maximum four picks per platform. Here are the categories:
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This was so good. Top-tier podcasting, coming Friday.
Old post!
After a troubled gestation, Simon The Sorcerer 3 was rebooted in 3D with mixed but undoubtedly ambitious results.
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After a troubled gestation, Simon The Sorcerer 3 was rebooted in 3D with mixed but undoubtedly ambitious results.
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Simon The Sorcerer 3D – Old hat
To say Simon The Sorcerer 3D passed me by would be an understatement. It released in April 2002 when I was at university and working a Saturday job at the GameStation in Camden Town. This was the o…
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November 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Old post!
After a troubled gestation, Simon The Sorcerer 3 was rebooted in 3D with mixed but undoubtedly ambitious results.
gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/s...
After a troubled gestation, Simon The Sorcerer 3 was rebooted in 3D with mixed but undoubtedly ambitious results.
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This brilliant Skies of Arcadia is 25, so here's the story of why a screeching noise and a sense of terror is the main thing I remember about it.
www.eurogamer.net/heres-my-one...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This brilliant Skies of Arcadia is 25, so here's the story of why a screeching noise and a sense of terror is the main thing I remember about it.
www.eurogamer.net/heres-my-one...
www.eurogamer.net/heres-my-one...
Booted up my PS3 for the first time in a while and immediately hit with a wave of 2008 nostalgia
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Booted up my PS3 for the first time in a while and immediately hit with a wave of 2008 nostalgia
It’s 2025 and the mainstream media still thinks videogames are about “winning”
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
It’s 2025 and the mainstream media still thinks videogames are about “winning”
There’s still a handful of (free!) tickets left for this, if anyone else would like to hear me talk about old games in-person.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
There’s still a handful of (free!) tickets left for this, if anyone else would like to hear me talk about old games in-person.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/wak...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/wak...
That’s Simon The Sorcerer Origins finished. If you’re a fan of the first then you’ll find this a very worthy sequel. The best since 2. It’s a reassuring traditional adventure with a good script, good puzzles and a great performance from Chris Barrie. Smallthing did a great job. Bring on the remake!
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
That’s Simon The Sorcerer Origins finished. If you’re a fan of the first then you’ll find this a very worthy sequel. The best since 2. It’s a reassuring traditional adventure with a good script, good puzzles and a great performance from Chris Barrie. Smallthing did a great job. Bring on the remake!
No new arrivals this week so here’s something beloved from the collection
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
No new arrivals this week so here’s something beloved from the collection
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Rising from its grave, the imposing stop-motion warrior, AshGuine, star of three games and unofficial mascot for Panasonic's version of the MSX: The A1.
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#VideoBytes
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Rising from its grave, the imposing stop-motion warrior, AshGuine, star of three games and unofficial mascot for Panasonic's version of the MSX: The A1.
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This is such nonsense. Roger Moore or Lazenby would have just laughed this off.
“Wouldn’t have happened to the other guy” etc…
“Wouldn’t have happened to the other guy” etc…
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
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Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This is such nonsense. Roger Moore or Lazenby would have just laughed this off.
“Wouldn’t have happened to the other guy” etc…
“Wouldn’t have happened to the other guy” etc…