The Doom franchise is 20 years old this year so I thought it'd be a good time to take a brief look at the original Doom , id software...

Not the flashiest title screen, but it's got a voice shouting "Virtua Racing!", so I'm happy. The original arcade versio...

It's Virtua Fighter , the first 3d fighting game to ever hit arcades! Though I'll be playing the 32X port that came out two years la...

Wrestling, maybe?

I'm not sure what's going on there, but it has explosions so surely it can't be that bad.

I thought that I'd saved the picture wrong, but no those compression artefacts are in the actual game.

Is his hair a bird?

Even I know that making a web out of fire is a really stupid idea.

Wow, what is it with the 32X and 3d space games? This doesn't look like it's going to be one of the best of them.

I guess that's Sergeant Metal Head then. That looks very PlayStation era to me.

THAT is what a decent looking title screen looks like. This was a pretty popular game if I remember right, definitely more than Super Pitfal...

That would be a cool title screen if it wasn't for the low colour depth. Seems like this could be a decent game.

Another 32X 3d space game! It's actually making a decent attempt at playing the theme music here.

Or Shadow Squadron if you're in the US.

I think this one's called Kolibri . Or maybe it's Kplibys, it's hard to tell.

I'm really sorry you had to see this.

Spiky.

Damn, those textured polygons look a bit ass don't they? Wait, textured polygons on the 32X?

My first Sega 32x screen, and it looks quite nice. It's a definite step up from standard Mega Drive/Genesis graphics, though nothing in...