Megaman 10

7 cert, Capcom, PSN

Awww! In the decades since I first encountered MegamanI never realised how adorable he was. Look at the jumpsuit, the funny face he makes when he jumps, and of course, Protoman's dog, the one with the waggley tail. Precious!

Megaman 10on the PSN shouldn't work, but it does. The very old-school graphics and 8-Bit/2D platform gameplay pitilessly catapulted me back to the 1980s, when I'd hound my dad for change to squander on arcade games. Like many Japanese games of the era, even the onscreen exposition is written in charmingly broken English ("You have to help me getting my medicine-making machine back!") Less agreeable is the old-fashioned habit of bringing you back to the beginning of a level when you die. Surely that could have been excised?

Still, the layout of the levels is imaginative, the graphics are quaint, and the simple left-to- right platform style of play is utterly addictive. Recommended to nostalgic gamers of a certain age, and kids.