Spring of 1985 was a dark time for video games. The Nintendo Entertainment System was still 6 months from seeing the light of day in the United States. Atari mania and Pac-Man fever felt like ages ago thanks to the shift away from home console gaming towards computer...
Round 2…Fight! #3 : Mortal Kombat Trilogy After an amazing launch day of two great titles, the follow up release on the Nintendo 64 was…this. Now, Mortal Kombat is a pretty big title, it’s a series that stands tall today with Mortal Kombat X...
Hey Big N, What’s Next? By and large, we human-types like things in linear fashion. We binge watch our shows by season and by episode, we like our phone books alphabetized and when it comes to experiencing our video games from years ago, we sort of expect a...
Blast processing. Sega had it, Nintendo didn’t. I had no idea what it was and most other kids didn’t either. Of course, we now know it was a made up term used by the Sega marketing department, but that didn’t matter to us in 1991. All we knew was that there was this...
Making Sense of the Pieces and Bits Have you ever wondered why the numbers in the names of today’s consoles have more to do with the generation of the hardware family than they do processing power? Let’s cut to the chase on this one – technology has surpassed...