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Mike has been playing video games since the 90s, where he cut his teeth on his dad's old ZX Spectrum for a while until he got a Super Nintendo in 1993. A long suffering Evertonian and fan of professional wrestling, Mike counts sports games, wrestling games and platform games amongst his favourite genres. Mike has written for Inside Pulse and Scott's Blog of Doom alongside his work for Gaming Respawn. He has also been published in Fighting Spirit and Mums & Dads magazine. Regular columns from Mike include Retro Respawn (a look at retro games of yore), Wrestle Respawn (features and reviews of wrestling events or storylines) and The Fitzgerald Scale (a look at more contemporary games and general musings on the video game industry).
During the first lockdown back in 2020, I found myself pretty isolated due to the fact that I live a good hour’s drive away from...
Retro Respawn – Space Invaders
Last week we looked at Retro Royalty in the form of Pac-Man, so this week I decided to hop in my DeLorean and head back...
Retro Respawn – Pac-Man
Pac-Man is very much one of those games that has become far more than the sum of its parts, with it being synonymous with the...
Wrestle Respawn – Five Great WWE European Title Bouts
I thought I’d do something a bit different this week as Ridge Racer Month ended up being quite a draining experience (Though hopefully a rewarding...
Retro Respawn Tandem – Ridge Racer Month Part Four – Ridge Racer Type 4
“Ridge Racer Month” comes to an end with the final fifth gen release of the series in the form of Ridge Racer Type 4, and...
RetroMania Wrestling Review
RetroMania Wrestling is intended as a sequel to super popular, coin-chugging arcade grapple em’ up WWF WrestleFest, with it currently being available on PC and...
Retro Respawn – Ridge Racer Month Part Three – Rage Racer
Ridge Racer Month continues with our penultimate week where we look at the third game in the series in the form of Rage Racer. Though...
Retro Respawn – Ridge Racer Month Part Two – Ridge Racer Revolution
Welcome to the second week of “Ridge Racer Month”, where I will be writing about the four Ridge Racer games that made their way onto...
Retro Respawn – Ridge Racer Month Part One – Ridge Racer
Ridge Racer is one of the most well-known racing titles on the PlayStation, seeing four official releases during the life of Sony’s much revered grey slab....
Retro Respawn – WWE SmackDown! vs Raw
Yes, I know I said we’d be taking a break from wrestling games a couple of weeks back, and that was my intention, but I...
Rings of Saturn Issue #21: “WipEout” in WOAH BRUV, THIS NIGHTCLUB HAS PROPER BANGIN’ ZERO GRAVITY INNIT?
I’ve actually written about WipEout before, but that was the PlayStation version. Though WipEout is known as being one of the early PlayStation games to...
Retro Respawn – ECW Hardcore Revolution (Game Boy Color)
We’ll be finishing off our sojourn down Grapple Avenue this week with one more wrestling game before I bring my buddy, Adam, back next week...
Retro Respawn – WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role
I’ve recently reviewed Wrestling Empire for the Nintendo Switch and also took a trip down wrestling memory lane in the form of WCW Nitro last...
Retro Respawn – WCW Nitro (PlayStation)
The late 90s was an extremely profitable period for American Professional Wrestling, with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling going head-to-head every Monday...
Wrestling Empire for Nintendo Switch Review
Wrestling Empire for the Nintendo Switch is the newest wrestling game to be released by MDickie, although it is the first time that one of...
Retro Respawn Tandem – The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
My buddy Adam Yates has been kind enough to join me again to do a tandem article, with this week’s game being one that I...
The Fitzgerald Scale – Genres of Video Games I Just Can’t Get Into
One of the things that can make video games such an inviting hobby to dip your toe into is that there are so many different...
Retro Respawn – Rise of the Robots
I quite enjoy myself a fighting game, with fighters in both the 2D and 3D realms tickling my fancy at different times or another. One...

