Photos: Drop-D Club Night @ Twisted Pepper, July 9th
Posted on 11th Jul 11 by Brian Lloyd | 
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Catriona Lawless’ pix from our debut excursion at The Box, @ The Twisted Pepper.
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Classic Videogames: Spyro the Dragon
Posted on 23rd May 11 by Alex Millar | 0
Our Classic Games column returns after a brief hiatus (and away from its Sunday slot) with a look at the scaly purple one in all his glory.
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Classic Game: Parodius (PS1/SAT)
Posted on 17th Apr 11 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 0
Drop-d has had an inanimate-object crush on this game for nigh on a decade. And you’re about to see why. Possibly. 
Classic Game: Ridge Racer Revolution (PS1)
Posted on 10th Apr 11 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 0
In the first of Drop-d’s new series of retrospective gaming reviews, we look up long-forgotten arcade racer Ridge Racer Revolution, and find ’tis still a goer…
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Games: WWE All-Stars (Wii)
Posted on 6th Apr 11 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 0
WWE’s mixture of athletics, pageantry, morality play, vaudeville and sheer spectacle, has, while creating its own niche, even in wrestling, never mind pop-culture, seen it alienate both sporting fans and fans of legitimate drama for being neither or.
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Games: Streets of Rage Remake Runs at 103 Levels; 2D Fighting Fans Never Seen Outdoors Again
Posted on 6th Apr 11 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 1
Drop-d contributor and button-fiddler Steescribbles slung this one in our direction, and could scarcely believe it. But it exists…
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Interview: Pier Solar
Posted on 18th Mar 11 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 0
As praise rolls in for the unlikeliest critical darling of the last year in gaming, Drop-d speaks to Fonzie and Zebbe, two of the heads behind Pier Solar and the Great Architects, the first newly-developed Mega Drive game to see release in over thirteen years, to discuss the Internet, part-time games development, and where exactly you can still get MegaDrive cartridges made…
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Games: Top Five of 2010
Posted on 31st Dec 10 by Brian Lloyd | 0
The second of three end-of-year lists goes out now, as the D casts an eye back on its fave five videogames of 2010. Our albums list goes out at 11.59 tonight. Last word, yo.
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Retro Gaming Review: Resident Evil
Posted on 9th Dec 10 by Brian Lloyd | 0
Resident Evil was not a wholly original game. It borrowed elements from other games, mostly PC, that had gone under the ambient horror genre. Games like The 7th Guest and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream pioneered the idea of horror as a gaming experience. The problem with these games is that they [...]
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Retro Gaming Review: F-Zero
Posted on 16th Nov 10 by Brian Lloyd | 1
For me, F-Zero was all about speed. It was never about the graphics, the somewhat annoying music, the lack of cars (sorry, hover-cars), the incredibly difficulty. It was the speed. To this day, I’m unable to quantify what it is about F-Zero that made it so fast. It’s one of the few games that really [...]
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