It’s that season again: the ‘year’ digit on the calendar has ticked over to a new number, it’s been a few months too many since I wrote a proper blog post… and it’s time to reflect on the past 12 months of discovering interesting old games.

My 2022 saw the launch of Games Bond, a deep dive into the Taito Egret II Mini, a quick look at the Mega Drive Mini 2, as well as finally tackling a handful of backlog games I’d been meaning to check out for years. As part of those endeavours, and elsewhere, I managed to have quite a few memorable first-time experiences.

So as the tradition calls for: in rough chronological order – Ten old games I really enjoyed playing for the first time in 2022: