It is with a heavy heart that we heard about the passing of Bernie Stolar. He was a video game industry legend, will be missed, and his influence will be felt for decades.

• Crash Bandicoot
• Ridge Racer
• Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
• Spyro the Dragon
• Duke Nukem 3D

After having seen the new Resident Evil movie, Jay took some time to reflect on it and wanted to share some of his thoughts. Was the reaction of a vocal minority of fans of the game series right to pick the movie apart?

• Resident Evil
• Resident Evil (2002)
• Resident Evil 2
• Resident Evil 2 (2019)
• Resident Evil 4

After having watched the latest Resident Evil movie, and with the Halo TV show on the horizon, Jay wanted to take a moment and reflect on how we react to movies made from our favourite video game properties

• Resident Evil
• Resident Evil (2002)
• Resident Evil 2
• Resident Evil 2 (2019)
• DOOM

We interviewed Teradile (aka James Harvey) about his upcoming game "Nightfall Hacker", the inspiration for it, and even what he would take with him to the "Thunder Plains"

• Teradile
• Onslaught
• Drag Racer v3
• Need for Madness
• Stick RPG

It’s about time that we talked about how the Internet reacted to Sega’s recent announcements

I bought a Switch back in September 2019, and have been buying and playing a number of games since then. But what games have I been playing? This post lists all of the games I have bought so far in 2020

• Final Fantasy IX
• Evoland
• Undertale
• Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate
• Samurai Warriors

I bought a Switch back in September 2019, and have been buying and playing a number of games since then. But what games have I been playing? This post lists all of the games I have bought in 2019

• ESPN NFL 2K5
• Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition
• Untitled Goose Game
• Mutant Football League
• Brutal Sports Football

It’s been a while since I got a Nintendo Switch. So I thought that I’d write up my thoughts from the first few hours of owning one.
Which games did I get, and what do I think to the bundled software? Only one way to find out!

• Tetris 99
• Untitled Goose Game
• Dead Cells
• Resident Evil: Revelations 2
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons

We interviewed Craig Snape about his upcoming game "Kung Fu Jesus", the inspiration for it, and even what he would take with him to the "Thunder Plains"

• Kung Fu Jesus
• Streets of Rage
• Disco Elysium
• Jenny LeClue
• Crossing Souls

Whilst the Mini Consoles are great, they’re a little limiting - unless you want to hack them. So Jay decided to talk about a number of alternatives.

• DOOM
• Metal Slug
• Streets of Rage Remake
• Quake (series)

Jay decided to write about the history of mini consoles. Strap in, prepare for some technical details, and lets learn a little about the many different mini consoles

• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Metal Gear Solid
• Resident Evil Director's Cut
• Final Fantasy VII
• Gran Turismo

Squidge talks us through some of his favourite, if flawed, games. And why, even though they are flawed, he loves them

• Resident Evil Gaiden
• Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!
• Resident Evil 2
• Resident Evil 4
• Pokémon (series)

Squidge talks us through cameos in video games - those famous actors who inexplicably turn up in games - including some of his favourites.

• Saints Row (series)
• Space Channel 5
• Command & Conquer (series)
• Mortal Kombat X
• WWE 2K16

In which Squidge tells us all about Diablo - a game with demons, clicking, looting, and sweet guitar licks

• Diablo (series)
• Neverwinter Nights
• Baldur's Gate

I promised it during a podcast episode, and now I’m delivering it: my thoughts on the GPD XD

• Metropolis Street Racer
• Phantasy Star IV
• Resident Evil 2
• Rygar
• Streets of Rage

On May 6th, Squidge went with Ike (long time friend of the blog and podcast) to a Retro Games fair in Hull. This is his Waffling Taylors field report… also his gaming haul

Jay tells us about one of his favourite arcade racers ever: Tokyo Xtreme Racer (Tokyo Xtreme Racer in America) for the Dreamcast.

• Gran Turismo
• Shutokou Battle (series)
• Tokyo Xtreme Racer
• Tokyo Highway Battle

Remember the video game crash of 1983? Jay gives us his thoughts on whether he thinks it could happen again

We (along with Ik) went to the Leeds Retro Games Fair at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds this week. We took loads of photos and bought even more stuff. Click through to read what we thought about the event this year.

In which Jay tells us about his all time favourite N64 game: Hybrid Heaven. What makes this game so special to him? You’ll have to click through and find out.

• Half-Life
• Hybrid Heaven
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Metal Gear Solid
• SiN

In which Squidgey talks about the most important part of gaming. No, not having snacks at the ready. Not a list of insults to fling at n00bs. This post is about some of the more common peripherals

In which Jay talks about Alien vs Predator for the Atari Jaguar. Originally released in 1994, this is one of his favourite games.

• Alien vs Predator

In which Jay takes us on an historic journey with his pals The Roman Empire. He also talks us through what he loves about the first Age of Empires game.

• Age of Empires

In which Squidgey talks us through the shameful secret weapon in a gamer’s arsenal: Cheat Codes

In which Jay sets his phaser to frag and talks us through one of the only first person shooters to be set in the Star Trek universe. Does he recommend beaming down and joining the Hazard Team

• Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force
• Quake 3

In preparation for Squidgey’s series on the Parasite Eve games, Jay talks us through the source material (a Japanese horror novel) and a related movie (a Japanese science fiction romance movie). Why not give it a read?

• Parasite Eve

Part two (of a two part series) in which Squidgey talks about the Nintendo DS title Resident Evil: Revelations, and it’s HD ports to the 7th and 8th generation consoles.

• Resident Evil (Series)
• Resident Evil: Revelations

In which Jay takes us through some of the stuff you’ll need to know in order to be a games developer.

Jay recently completed Resident Evil VII: Biohazard in, pretty much, a single sitting. This post are his thoughts on it.

• Resident Evil (Series)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Recently we had a friend request that we play through Rygar and share our thoughts. Jay has done just that. What did he think of Rygar? Did he finish the game? Was it as frustrating as he initially thought?

• Dark Souls
• Rygar

Part one (of a two part series) in which Squidgey talks about the Nintendo DS title Resident Evil: Revelations, and it’s HD ports to the 7th and 8th generation consoles.

• Resident Evil (Series)
• Resident Evil: Revelations

In which Jay tells us a little about Segata Sanshiro, a character you might not have heard of if you weren’t in Japan in the 1990s (or a weirdo nerd like Jay)

In which Squidgey rises from his grave and fights his way through hordes of the undead in, collecting floating balls of testosterone, in order to defeat the evil Neff (or was it Biff?).

• Altered Beast

In which Jay talks us through one of his all time favourite NES games: Power Blade, and how it’s totally not a Mega Man clone

• Mega Man
• Power Blade

There’s a place you’re always welcome, That’s as nice as it can be. Everyone can get in, ‘Cause it’s absolutely free! This week Jay waffles on about the second Discworld point and click adventure

• Discworld II: Missing Presumed...
• Terry Pratchett's Discworld

In which Squidgey talks us through a recent playthrough of the first game in one of his favourite series: Resident Evil. Locked in a mansion, with only a lock-pick and some bad acting. Can he puzzle his way out, or will he get eaten like his favourite Jill sandwhich? Only one way to find out.

• Resident Evil (Series)

In which Squidgey discusses the pros and cons of writing your own comic book on a stormy night. Watch out, because you might get dragged into the comic book, as Sketch Turner did in this 90’s classic.

• Comix Zone

The second in a two-part series in which Jay discusses the 1999 horror action game Shadow Man. This post is all about the soundtrack, written by legendary musician Tim Haywood

• Shadow Man

In which Squidgey takes us through the hits and misses (what misses?) of a Mega Drive beat em up based on Michael Jackson. Yes, that Michael Jackson… well, technically the film Moonwalker

• Michael Jackson's Moonwalker

The first in a two-part series in which Jay discusses the 1999 horror action game Shadow Man. Fair warning, this game is quite dark and some of the details that he gives from the game are quite graphic.

• Shadow Man

We attended the Super Retro Games fair in Leeds last week, these are our thoughts on what we saw (and bought) there

In which Squidgey talks us through his thoughts on the game he considers to be his 16 bit Dark Souls

• Alien 3

In which Squidgey tells us all about the green fury that is Gilius Thunderhead, and the amazing Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System game: Golden Axe

• Golden Axe
• Streets of Rage

In which Jay discusses the World War 2 stealth game Velvet Assassin, and the real life person that it was based on.

• Velvet Assassin

In which Squidgey tells us about one of his favourite Resident Evil titles: Code Veronica X, a little of it’s history and about how long he has waited to get an A rank for this game

• Resident Evil (Series)
• Resident Evil: Code Veronica

In which Squidgey takes us through the fores and afts of Resident Evil Gaiden – a top down Resident Evil game, set on a luxury liner, released on the GameBoy Colour no less

• Resident Evil (Series)
• Resident Evil Gaiden

In which Jay discusses the PC (and later, PlayStation) game based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series of books

• Terry Pratchett's Discworld

In which Jay talks about one of the ways that he was drawn into Japanese history (especially the Sengoku Jidai): Samurai Warriors

• Samurai Warriors (series)

The first in a series of posts by Jay where he discusses the Waffling Taylors’ first summer of coding. This week’s topic: the classic TMNT game – known to all who have played is as one of the hardest NES games.

• TMNT

Squidgey proves that’s not all about the numbers… or is it?

• Dead Rising
• Matt Hazard
• Rock Band 2

In which Jay takes a look at the classic PlayStation game Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. It’s a really cute game, with shades of a series of games starring a certain moustachioed New Yorker

• Croc: Legend of the Gobbos

Where Squidgey talks about how he started his gaming journey – the hard way.

• Power Blade

Where Jay tells us about the first computer that we ever had: The Amstrad CPC 464

• Animal Vegetable or Mineral

We attended a retro games fair in Leeds, these are our thoughts on what we saw (and bought) there.

Everyone has played Super Mario Bros., right? Well, here are Jay’s thoughts on that seminal game and how it fits into the history of the Waffling Taylors

• Power Blade
• Super Mario Bros.
• TMNT

Lockpicks? Jill Sandwich? VR? Wait, what?

• Resident Evil (series)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

The very first post on our new blog. We hope you like what’s to come