Playing through all the 2D Metroid games was something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. While Metroid Fusion always haunted me as a game I never got to beat (until recently) the series always piqued my interest. Who doesn’t want to be a badass bounty...
Q) I recently read your What Ever Happened to Bits? article and found it very interesting. What I don’t fully understand, though, is why don’t we have a standard today to compare system performances? It may not have been accurate, but at least 8, 16 and 32-bit helped...
As lovers of retro video games we love nostalgia. We love it when we sit down with our comfort games, play through them like we did when we were younger, then move on to the next game. Yet there are some games that, for whatever reason, we couldn’t beat at a...
In recent months news stories have circulated all over the internet on old retro games being sold for millions upon millions of dollars. I first found out about this when news broke that a sealed Super Mario 64 game sold for over 1.5 million. The news struck me as...
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES as we’ll refer to it here, is quite possibly one of the most important systems ever made. Now it didn’t bring the American video game market back from the brink like its predecessor did but it’s impact...
When it comes to reviewing retro video games, a lot of the same things can and have been said over and over again. “The game is a masterpiece”, “It was ahead of its time”, “Will we ever see a game like this again?” I can go on and...