Evercade News (issue 1)

Despite the number of carts already available, we’re still relatively early on in the lifespan of the Evercade system. After all, it’s been less than a year since the release…

Evercade Cart Review (Issue 1)

There are too many to cover in the four pages we have (after all, there have been 32 carts to date), so here’s a quick summary of the first 12…

Evercade

Introduction Despite being around video games from an early age, there’s hundreds of titles that I’ve never had opportunity to play. As time has gone on, it’s either increasingly difficult…

Gaming Mascots

Introduction Over the years there have been many attempts at presenting the next big gaming mascot. But for every Mario, Sonic, Crash, Lara Croft, Spyro, Donkey Kong… (alright enough already,…

Entertainment with Jazz Cat (Issue 1)

Lawks-a-lordy it’s been a long time since I had to write an entertainment column for Format Review. Twenty years. That’s a long time in cat years. If this wasn’t a…

Review – Kirby and the Forgotten Land

I will admit up front that I am not the world’s greatest Kirby fan. Aside from about 20 minutes playing Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush on the Wii U, I’ve…

Review – Sonic Origins

Ahhh Sonic. To those of a certain vintage, myself included, Sonic the Hedgehog was the epitome of cool. His 1991 debut on SEGA’s glorious Mega Drive console is the bedrock…

Review – Crash Bandicoot 4

I may not be alone in thinking that Crash Bandicoot kinda lost his way after Naughty Dog moved away from the character and he became a cross-platform property. The PS2/Xbox…

Issue 1 – Editorial

Hello, and welcome to  the very first issue of Format Review. Well, that’s not strictly true. In a sense, this is the first issue of volume 3 of the zine.…