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...
Released in 1990 on PC and 1991 on the Sega Genesis, King’s Bounty is a strategy/RPG that even the most hardcore of gamers may have missed when it was originally hit shelves. However its place among the greatest strategy/role-playing games of all time should never be...
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were a cultural phenomenon in the early ‘90s. Because of that, it should come as no surprise that video games based on the series appear on every console of the era and have their own legacy as well. While it’s easy to have mixed...
The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past and Super Metroid are perhaps the two most significant games of the Super Nintendo era of retro video games. Their emphasis on collectible items allowing for forward advancement through mazes, and the polish on these ideas...
Red Faction Lead Designer Alan Lawrance was one of the main minds that turned PS2 classic Red Faction into something special, but the changes during development were far more than you’d think and it was never easy. Selling nearly two million copies on the PlayStation...
There are many contenders for the greatest mech sim of all time, but Steel Battalion for the original Xbox has amassed a remarkably intense and devoted following due to the sheer fidelity of its simulation. I refer not so much to the gameplay as to its monster of a...