Christmas. Done! New Years Eve. Over! You know what that means? Its time for a look back over the past year with the UCHG 2014 Retro-Spective.

January

The Year started off with Brad making promises he couldn’t keep. He drew up a Backlog and swore to play nothing else until it was done. He hit the ground running with Alan Wake and Organ Trail ticked off the list early.

Elsewhere in the big wide World a Nintendo World Championship cart was sold on Ebay for silly money – £60,536 worth of silly money.

February

It’s happening again! Fen proved he still has what it takes to complete the Hanger Level of THPS2 in under 2 minutes – This is why he gets all the girls.

Ross took a look at Guacamelee and Dust, an Elysian Tail declaring them to be both awesome and the most fun you can have with a co-op game. Only not in that order.

We were also introduced to the sheer perverted goodness that are the Penis Brothers!

March

Ikaruga. That’s what happened in March, and nothing else. In honor of this March 2015 will now be renamed Ikaruga. There was a point behind this and that was Fen ticking off the 90th game on the 1001 list. Only another 911 to go. That’s the number nine hundred and eleven, not the date, to be clear – You can’t be too careful with a beard like Brad’s on the team

April

The truth was finally out as a plucky film crew, in the style of a modern day Indiana Jones, discovered ATARI’s dirty secret buried in the desert. E.T had come home to remind us all just how awful that game really was!

Brad took the number of games played on the 1001 list up to 91 with CHOPLIFTER! on the ATARI 7800. He had a little bit too much fun squashing prisoners as opposed to saving them.

May

After discovering an old review for Super Godzilla dating back to 1994. Ross did what all good retro gamers would do – He went and played it! Ignoring the reviews score of a mediocre but foretelling 5 out 10, Ross booted up the SNES and gave it a bash. Was he impressed? No. The game was declared to be “one of the most boring strategy games ever made” 

May was also the month that our old friend Operation Flashpoint was made free to anyone who wanted it for one weekend. This was more than enough reason for Fen to get back on it and ticket number 92 off the 1001 list.

June

The summer was on its way and so was a cause for celebration. Not only where most of the female population about to start wearing less but Tetris was 30 years old. Who would have thought that a game about stacking shit would still be so popular after 30 years? Well it is – and we think that’s great!

July

Beers. Beards. Bass! SEGA Bass Fishing on the Dreamcast, in slow-motion all whilst drinking beer? Whats not to like about July?

August

As the summer hit it’s peak Brad hid away inside and played L.A Noire. In an effort to tick it off his Backlog he played it for a few days straight and as result ruined the experience. This caused some division at the UCHG but Brad stood firm and called it tedious, frustrating, cumbersome, dumb, idiotic and repetitive.

Although he did admit to enjoying driving a fire engine around.

September

Ross essentially became God when he obtained the Genesis Titian in Reus. This was no easy task and after 61hrs of God like gaming Ross had it beat! This is why he now gets all the girls Fen used to get.

As well as worshiping the new Ross God, PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+ was played and LEGO Batman was ticked off Brad’s Backlog.

October

October may have had Mirror’s Edge struck from the Backlog of Brad in a rather enjoyable fashion. But really it was a month all about one thing.

Halloween Splatterhouse Pt.2 – Splatternormal Splativity

One year on from it’s beginnings the boys finally saw the credits roll on Vin Diesel’s epic arcade adventure. It is said that there is no better celebration of Halloween then Vin Diesel punching his way out of some sort of giant monster vag.

November

To commemorate the end of the 2014 F1 season and the crowning of a British Champion. Steve raced from the back of the grid to take the win in Ayrton Senna’s Super Monaco GP 2. In honor of this epic drive Brad ran over the man who waves the chequered flag – seems fair.

December

The end of the year was here again. Christmas meant that due to overindulging on food and alcohol none of us can remember the games we played. The only evidence that December 2014 ever happened is this picture provided by Ross

So here we are. 2014 has been 100% completed and we are all very pleased with our Steam achievement! Who knows what is out in the 2015 fog of war? Ore? Wood? or maybe Orcs? It had better not be Orcs. Not after what happened the last time.

We would like to thank everyone for all the views, comments and Twitter love we have received over the past twelve months -we are truly grateful.

Happy New Year!