Features
Meet Genki Video Games!
By Damien McFerran - 30 Sep, 2008
Tell us a little bit about the company. What can our readers find if they visit your store? GenkiVideoGames.com was founded to bring more exposure to the delightful Japanese ... Read More
Retro Playtest - Dynamite Duke
By Damien McFerran - 01 May, 2008
In the first of what will hopefully become a regular feature, we sample the delights of one of the most underrated Operation Wolf clones ever produced - Dynamite Duke for the ... Read More
Gary Harrod's Videogame Tees!
By Damien McFerran - 20 Dec, 2007
Those of you with sharp memories will recall that former Mean Machines Art Editor Gary Harrod dabbled in the production of some rather cool videogame related T Shirts not so long ... Read More
Mean Machines Sega - Saturn Sampler
By Darren Calvert - 10 Nov, 2007
One of our faithful readers known as Jon came across a nice suprise in a box in his loft recently! A Mean Machines Sega "Saturn Sampler" Audio CD. It was free with Issue 39 of ... Read More
Rad's 31st - Two Years Late
By Damien McFerran - 09 Oct, 2007
We like to think we do our research here at the Mean Machines Archive. Whilst chatting aimlessly about rubbish on Googlechat the other day, me and Daz hit upon the current fate of ... Read More
Gary Harrod's Blog Now Online
By Damien McFerran - 31 Aug, 2007
Mean Machines designer Gary Harrod has recently started his own blog - called Gary's Gossip - in which the MMA gets a mention! Gary says he'll be putting information online ... Read More
Rad reviews Spiderman 3!
By Damien McFerran - 11 May, 2007
After months of inactivity the Mean Machines Archive Forum is now packed to the rafters with ex-EMAP staffers from all parts of the globe (including Australia). We posted about ... Read More
Mean Machines Forum Staff Love-In
By Damien McFerran - 10 May, 2007
We love bringing people together here at The Mean Machines Archive. It makes us feel good about ourselves. But when those people happen to be ex-EMAP employees that haven't seen ... Read More
Gary Harrod T-Shirts for Sale!
By Damien McFerran - 13 Feb, 2007
Mean Machines designer Sir Gary of Harrod has contributed a range of retro gaming designs to Teefly.com. Here's what the great man has to say: "I did the Berzerk, Cherry, Pow, ... Read More
Retro Gamer Feature - 'The Leftovers'
By Damien McFerran - 13 Oct, 2006
Readers of the quite frankly excellent Retro Gamer magazine will no doubt be aware that issue 31 is carrying a rather spiffing Mean Machines feature written by my good self. The ... Read More
Jazza's Secret Code
By Cal 'buzz_clik' Skuthorpe - 18 Jul, 2006
Everyone who considers themselves a fan of Mean Machines would most likely say that they've read every issue from cover to cover. But how many of you have really done that? I'm ... Read More
Medlantic Hi-Tech, Market Bosworth
By Damien McFerran - 26 Apr, 2006
In these days of identikit air-conditioned GAME stores, it's hard to believe that the traditional independent games retailers ever existed. With the overpowering smell of body ... Read More
Double Dragon Megadrive Blooper
By Darren Calvert - 20 Feb, 2006
The mean machines Q&A; section could at times be quite brutal (that's leaving Mean Yob's comments aside for now!) This feature is dedicated to a classic response from good old ... Read More
Contempary Magazines
By Damien McFerran - 13 Feb, 2006
Mean Machines started the ball rolling for a rush of console-related publications. Here's a brief selection of some of the better ones, and some of the more recent magazines that ... Read More
T-Shirts for Sale!
By Damien McFerran - 06 Feb, 2006
Flicking through some old issues of MM and CVG, I've noticed that Julian Rignall seems to have an addiction to promoting cheap crap t-shirts. For example, check the first photo on ... Read More
KC's Consoles, Loughborough
By Damien McFerran - 31 Jan, 2006
Now, this won't mean anything to those of you based outside the midlands, but in the early 90's there was a console store in Loughborough, Leicestershire that was my Mecca. It was ... Read More
The GamesMaster Connection
By Damien McFerran - 24 Jan, 2006
GamesMaster, eh? Remember that? Shit, wasn't it? But then it was the only videogames programme on TV worth watching, so you ended up tuning in anyway, didn't you? Of course you ... Read More
The Sega Mastermix 90
By Damien McFerran - 17 Jan, 2006
On the front of issue 2 of Mean Machines there was a free tape. Not just any old tape, but the Sega Mastermix 90! What is this amazing thing I hear you cry? Well, it was a ... Read More
Mean Machines Memories
By Paul Barker - 10 Jan, 2006
Before the wasteland of Ebay's sniper filled gaming arena and back when every local chippy had a Street Fighter machine with at least 2 buttons pummelled into the fascia, Saturday ... Read More