Author : Michael Fitzgerald
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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).
I’ve gone into detail in the past here on Gaming Respawn for my love of the first two Donkey Kong Country games, with Donkey Kong...
Retro Respawn Tandem – Cool Boarders 2
We’ve got a little something new this week as I’ve drafted in my buddy, Adam Yates, to tackle this week’s game tandem-0style. We’ve decided to...
Retro Respawn – Vendetta
Vendetta is a side-scrolling beat ’em up from Konami (back when they made actual video games instead of rubbish fruit machines and whatever the heck...
Retro Respawn – Bonanza Bros.
Bonanza Bros. was originally released in the arcades on the Sega System 24, but it would eventually see ports to a selection of home consoles,...
Retro Respawn – Demo 1 (Demo Disc Retrospective)
Back again with a Demo Disc Retrospective as I feel it makes a nice change of pace now and then and allows me to revisit...
The Fitzgerald Scale – Playing Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate on the Nintendo Switch
It is a constant lament of mine that I don’t seem to really make the most of my Nintendo Switch. I’ve had it for over...
The Fitzgerald Scale – Playing Titanfall 2’s Campaign
With Soul Month now behind us, I decided to return to the eighth gen for this week’s game, mainly because I didn’t fancy venturing into...
Retro Respawn – Soul Month Part Four – Soulcalibur III
We finally bring Soul Month to a close with what will likely be my most contentious article of the run as I didn’t like Soulcalibur...
Retro Respawn – Soul Month Part Three – Soulcalibur II
We keep “Soul Month” chugging along with our penultimate part where we will look at the third game in the Soul series of games, which...
Retro Respawn – Soul Month Part Two – Soulcalibur
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to Part Two of “Soul Month”, where we look at the only game in the Soul fighting series that hit...
Retro Respawn – Soul Month Part One – Soul Blade
Soul Blade (Soul Edge if you lived outside Europe, Australia and North America) is the first game in the Soul series of games, created by...
Wrestle Respawn – Title Belts Forgotten to Time – Volume #1: IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship
This week I’ve decided to try something new as a Wrestle Respawn feature, where I take a look at a pro wrestling Championship that is...
Retro Respawn – Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest
I mentioned in my review for Super Mario Bros. 35 last week that one of the things keeping me from using my Nintendo Switch as...
Super Mario Bros. 35 Review
Super Mario Bros. 35 is one of those games that you’d probably be less than impressed by if you had to pay actual money for...
Wrestle Respawn – The Rejuvenation of Roman Reigns
Roman Reigns has always had a, shall we say, “strained” relationship with certain sections of the WWE fan base, with a lot of them point...
Retro Respawn – WWF War Zone
WWF War Zone straddles the line between wrestling game and fighting game. Its list of button inputs to pull off simple moves, like DDTs, can...
Retro Respawn – ISS 3
ISS 3 was Konami’s attempt at providing a more arcade-focused football-em-up over the more simulation-based Pro Evolution Soccer series that it also had out on...
Retro Respawn – Top Ten Endings from the PS1 Tekken Games
For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been taking a journey back in time to take a look at the Tekken games of the fifth...

