Retro Arcade

And the Most Overworked Game Mascot award goes to...

It's a busy life at the top. Mario's been in more games than Jesus (probably not all that shocking ...

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Help a frog become the next Mario

Ease open the lid of Monday morning gently with a simple platformer from Newgrounds. Frogs don't ...

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Neon VR racing - not for the colourblind

We weren't going to blog Neon Rider, on account of its being "basically the same old 2D physics ...

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Mental-brilliant streaky neon helicopter warfare

We were going to hold off on the old top-down shooters for a while, it being something of a niche ...

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Monkeying about with balloons

If you're new to Ninjakiwi, Know Thou This: wherever there be'est a balloon, shalt there be a ...

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More clouds of bullets to narrowly avoid

Top-down shooting time. Starmageddon has all the bloated alien bosses, serpentine fighter ...

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Dear Homer, am I officially a casual gamer?

I'm not sure I could pinpoint an exact moment I stopped being a hardcore console gamer and became a ...

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A rolling ball gathers plenty of blocks

Balls. Holes. You know what to do. After all, you've had it drummed into you for months. We bet you ...

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Yep, it's another basketball sim

Any more like this and we'll have to register with the NBA. Foot Locker's Three-Point Shootout is ...

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Beat maze, get treasure, flee demon, rinse and repeat

The Maze Temple is a quickfire Pacman rip-off in which you find your way to the centre of a ...

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Donkey Kong with a Tenacious D soundtrack

In a quite excessively brilliant stroke of brilliance, one of the Ludum Dare chaps has coded a ...

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Ride back to the 1980s on a hoverbike

Feeling a bit retro? JetPsycle is so old school it practically smokes a pipe and wears carpet ...

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When top-down shooting plays rough

Last Breath: Overwhelmed is deceptively unassuming. "Don't worry," it purrs in your ear. "I'm just ...

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Reclaim space from weird alien pondlife

Reclamation is a top-down shooter - wait, scratch that last bit. It's no shooter, despite strongly ...

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Four Bejeweled-ish block puzzlers in one

You can't have too much of a good thing, Queen Latifah excepted. So here are four Bejeweled ...

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