1990s

Super Play

Mar 20, 2026

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Desert Strike

"Doesn't do anything (obviously) that a weedy Mega Drive couldn't do"

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Jan 15, 2026

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Parodius

"I did find the game ever so slightly boring and predictable"

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Nov 12, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - The Lost Vikings

“The main problem is frustration”

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Oct 10, 2025

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Donkey Kong Country

“Above anything else it is necessary to point out that you must own Donkey Kong Country”

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Aug 16, 2025

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1 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Spike McFang

“if you've made it this far I suggest that you've more than a passing interest in the genre"

Super Play

Jul 21, 2025

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1 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Unirally

“Our faces wrinkled in dismay when we first saw this effort”

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Jun 23, 2025

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1 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Hebereke's Popoitto

Over its lifetime, Super Play reviewed more Super Nintendo games than any other magazine in the United Kingdom - 596 to be precise - so picking a sixth of them, let alone the order of merit, would never be an easy task.

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

May 23, 2025

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Samurai Shodown

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

May 11, 2025

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1 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Cool Spot

How did Cool Spot fare across the critical landscape in the 1990s?

Kevin Kissane

Manga

Super Play: The Magazine That Inspired Millennial Love for the SNES and Everything Japanese

Apr 28, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play: The Magazine That Inspired Millennial Love for the SNES and Everything Japanese

And what about those covers too, woof

Kevin Kissane

cinema

Apr 21, 2025

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5 min read

The Worst Movie Ever #1: The Specialist

Does shower sex, the man who would be hades, and Eric Roberts make a good movie? No, of course it doesn't.

Kevin Kissane

Nintendo Switch

Sega Mega Drive Mini – The Top 5 Surprises

Mar 10, 2025

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4 min read

Sega Mega Drive Mini – The Top 5 Surprises

Sega's effort to match Nintendo's mini-console strategy offers some unique alternatives amongst the usual 16-bit suspects

Kevin Kissane

Animation

Kiki’s Delivery Service: The Miyazaki Classic That Saved Studio Ghibli

Jan 27, 2025

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2 min read

Kiki’s Delivery Service: The Miyazaki Classic That Saved Studio Ghibli

Looking back on Hayao Miyazaki's timeless tale of self-discovery

Kevin Kissane

Father Ted

Dec 24, 2024

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1 min read

Entertainment Advent Calendar #24 - Father Ted: A Christmassy Ted

Christmas on Craggy Island? Go on, go on, go on, go on

Kevin Kissane

Animation

Entertainment Advent Calendar #10 - The New Batman Adventures: Holiday Knights

Dec 10, 2024

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2 min read

Entertainment Advent Calendar #10 - The New Batman Adventures: Holiday Knights

On the tenth day of Christmas we’re heading back to Gotham City with a Christmas anthology treat

Kevin Kissane

Animation

Entertainment Advent Calendar #9 - The Simpsons: Marge Be Not Proud

Dec 9, 2024

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1 min read

Entertainment Advent Calendar #9 - The Simpsons: Marge Be Not Proud

Although a more subtly Christmas-themed episode of the world’s longest running animated show, Marge Be Not Proud is a cracker.

Kevin Kissane

Animation

X-Men The Animated Series: Marvel's Most Important Production

May 3, 2024

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1 min read

X-Men The Animated Series: Marvel's Most Important Production

"This on-screen X-Men iteration remains the most engrossing there has ever been"

Kevin Kissane

japan

Feb 19, 2023

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3 min read

TV Review: Tokyo Vice Season 1

Fancy suits, body bags, and cigarette butts in this journalistic viewpoint to Japan’s criminal underbelly

Kevin Kissane

1990s

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Desert Strike

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Parodius

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - The Lost Vikings

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Donkey Kong Country

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Spike McFang

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Unirally

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Hebereke's Popoitto

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Samurai Shodown

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Cool Spot

Super Play: The Magazine That Inspired Millennial Love for the SNES and Everything Japanese

The Worst Movie Ever #1: The Specialist

Sega Mega Drive Mini – The Top 5 Surprises

Kiki’s Delivery Service: The Miyazaki Classic That Saved Studio Ghibli

Entertainment Advent Calendar #24 - Father Ted: A Christmassy Ted

Entertainment Advent Calendar #10 - The New Batman Adventures: Holiday Knights

Entertainment Advent Calendar #9 - The Simpsons: Marge Be Not Proud

X-Men The Animated Series: Marvel's Most Important Production

TV Review: Tokyo Vice Season 1

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