A few years ago, I reviewed eight of the Data East games offered by Johnny Turbo (yes, the hefty, hairy shill for the TurboDuo) for the Switch. Why the heck is Johnny Turbo selling Data East games and not Turbografx games? Who knows....
Here's an article I posted years ago about purchasing games from the now largely defunct Toys 'R Us chain of toy stores. Buying video games at Toys 'R Us was such an arcane, labyrinthine experience. It felt like a sacred ritual!...
From Cohost. Too bad they couldn't fit the trademark symbol from Namco Museum Encore in there somewhere!
Long-running retro gaming site (and a key resource for this magazine) AtariAge is having a fire sale on games for the Atari 2600, 5200, and 7800. All games in the sale will be marked at 10% off to liquidate the stock of software featuring intellectual property the site can no longer sell without running afoul of copyright...
Evidently Microsoft considered an attempt to purchase the Sega part of Sega-Sammy Studios. Personally, I'm not sure I'm totally comfortable with Sega games being Microsoft-exclusive. I'm also not hugely fond of an American company taking over a Japanese one and possibly spoiling what made the company so special, but what the...
Roy Wood Jr. (who you may recognize from The Daily Show) examines the absurdity of fighting game backgrounds in this funny clip.
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Smart television sets. They're all over the place these days, and they often rely on Android to run streaming services like Netflix. Here's my question, though... Is a smart TV smart enough to run emulation apps like RetroArch, and can it do it well enough to be worth the bother?...
They are shutting down everything?! Uh oh....
What FrameRater said. This Metroid Zero Mission-style overhaul of Sonic Triple Trouble is a full-featured, Genesis-quality Sonic game, with Tails as an onscreen sidekick, exciting 3D bonus stages, and new content that was either missing from or not even possible on the Game Gear. Could this be the next Sonic Mania?
I spent hours on this game back in the day.
"What's so great about this?," you might say. "Final Fight is available on like, a million formats!" Yes, but this is the Sega Genesis. It's exciting to watch this 16-bit console designed for tight budgets handle Final Fight, the mammoth arcade hit with graphics that put Double Dragon and Kung Fu Master to shame. Between its...
British gaming YouTube channel SwitchUp (really, they're British enough that they talk about saveloys, and frequently) has offered a brief recap of Nintendo's recent Direct presentation, discussing everything from a Super Mario RPG remake with vastly improved graphics to the peculiar Super Mario Wonder, which really leans into...
M Network was one of the underachievers among the Atari 2600's many third party developers. As a division of Mattel, the makers of the competing Intellivision, they had no reason to bring their best work to the 2600... and so they very much didn't. Games by M Network were almost certain to be vastly inferior to their...
Thanks to the massive success of the NES, the once-popular Atari 2600 was given something few game consoles ever get... a second chance at life. Atari, under the direction of its new CEO Jack Tramiel, resurrected the 2600, offering it as a budget alternative to its own Atari 7800 and the competing NES and Master System....
Andre from Black Nerd Comedy looks back at the late 1980s and 1990s, when gamers really had to work to get their thrills. There was no internet to bring you a world of gaming goodness... you had to leave your house, touch grass, then quickly leave grass and walk into an arcade, or a Blockbuster Video, or a friend's house, to...
Here's a fun article from my old blog reviewing all the games in SNK Arcade Classics. As classic collections go, this is one of the better ones on the PSP, and that system had a whooooole lot of them to go around. (Other classic game compilations I'd recommend for this underrated handheld include Midway Arcade Treasures, Sega...
I realize the Switch is a currently supported console, but this news is a positive reflection on video games in general... the old ones, the new ones, all of them. Next time a politician says the world is going to hell thanks to video games, remind them of this.
