A Look Back at Earthworm Jim 2
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...
Spider: An Amazing Arachnid Adventure
The mid-‘90s were a transitional time in gaming. Make no mistake, the shift from pixels to polygons was on. The industry was in the midst of focusing solely on 3D gameplay. All of sudden, industry favorites and perennial 2D classics the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog and...
A review of PaRappa the Rapper from Boss Fight Books
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...
Evander Holyfield’s Real Deal Boxing: Sega’s First Real Knockout
Boxing games have a rich history, but those on the early Sega consoles have always been hit or miss. While games the likes of Rocky II on the Sega Master System and Buster Douglas Boxing on the Genesis have cult followings, they weren’t exactly critically acclaimed...
An interview with Dustin Hubbard of Gaming Alexandria
The history of retro gaming isn’t an especially long one, only going back maybe fifty years, at least if we limit ourselves to retro games as being computers rather than just complex machines. Preservation of this material can be challenging and thankless. All...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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