A major factor of retro gaming isn’t just what the games themselves are so much as the context of where they were played. Kyle Orland’s Minesweeper from Boss Fight Books is an excellent demonstration of this philosophy in action, simply because Minesweeper...
When most people think of retro games, they don’t think of phone games. Retro games, after all, are broadly speaking from a time before smart phones. But then again, phone games existed before smart phones did. Such is the case with Japanese feature phone games,...
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of Godzilla, King of the Monsters. While Godzilla has never really gone out of style, there’s no denying the character has seen a big resurgence in recent years, with appearances in new media properties in the United...
A lot of what resonates about retro video games is their degree of nonsense- weird design quirks that might have made sense to the original programmers, but certainly not to anyone else, and are only slightly more bizarre in retrospect than they were in their original...
Retro gaming as a hobby is an inherently nostalgic one. The text of the games we played in childhood is often not as important as the personal meaning we place on those narratives in memory, and how they came to help us see the world. Last year, Boss Fight Books...