I know my posts make me come off as a bit of a retro gamer. Kind of a Disco Stu for something that doesn't suck. The thing is, I totally play modern consoles. Case in point: I played the everloving hell out of the Rock Band series. Tha...

Strap in. This post is gonna be a doorstop. I'll start with a story: In November 2013, I had just been hired at the local international airport to work as a barista at the main-terminal Starbucks. Woohoo, employment! I didn't last long...

I've mentioned this before, but in 1994-1995, Nintendo was more or less on the top of the world. It's kind of amazing to know that some people still use "Nintendo" as a stand-in for video games as a whole. Nintendo themselves haven't d...

Recently picked up a lot of Nokia N-Gage stuff at a local flea market. Awesome stuff. Now I get to talk about this thing:   The Nokia N-Gage was a cell phone that also was a handheld game system. Now, in today’s marketplac...

I've always been a sucker for film noir. Something about it, and the various subgenres that owe their existence to it, is awesome. It's a genre that doesn't quite translate well into a traditional video game, but when it does it is def...

  Sega's history in the 1990s was pretty interesting. They started out a little weird with the Genesis, hit a hell of a stride with Sonic, and then the constant infighting of Sega of America and Sega of Japan made Sega a bit of a...

As stated before, nostalgia is expensive. Game prices have exploded in the past few years. There are a number of reasons for this: - People who grew up with older video games are now adults with disposable income. - The internet has al...

Nobody can play every video game. It's insane and naive to think one could. The sheer volume of what is out there is staggering. No matter how many games you've played, there will always be some that elude you for one reason or another...

  Here we go. I have a soft spot for this series. Mostly 'cause I watched the everloving hell out of it for two years of my childhood. My parents bought me all the action figures, and I even had the fan club kit that came with co...

Since technology hasn't quite advanced enough to where I can beam images of my recent gaming sessions into your head, I have to write about them after the fact. Here we go.   1. Justice League Task Force (Super Nintendo) Picked t...

Aww! Kitty! Much like my previous posts on Spectrum Holobyte and Bullet Proof Software, here's a quick retrospective on a criminally-underrated game company. "Alright, Titannel. I'll bite. The hell is Japan System Supply?" I'm glad yo...

Y'know, a lot of times, the classics are nice. There is a very good reason why the first game anyone wants to play on a NES is going to be Super Mario Bros. It's basically perfect. Same goes for the Game Boy - You're going to get Tetris, no...

I just read the pretty damn good Dtoid article about the Game Boy's 25th anniversary. Thought I'd do my own write-up of Nintendo's wonderful, iconic, borderline-indestructable brick of a handheld game console. More or less? The Game Boy...

"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill (attributed) Sega's history is interesting, to say the least. The Mega Drive was conceived by Sega of Japan as being the next generation of Sega's game consoles, which started with ...

I may have mentioned this in the past: Some odd things give me the best feelings of nostalgia. Firing up my copy of Super Mario All-Stars feels pretty damn good. Hell, even the simple action of dusting off my Super Nintendo carts makes me...

It's January. Woohoo! Christmas was pretty damn good this year. Got to spend a lot of time with my grandmother (My only family where I live) and I got to go to a bunch of different parties to socialize with people. Awesome stuff. I didn't ...

This is it. This is probably my most-cherished Christmas memory. A lot of Christmases seem to blend together. That's part of the reason why I haven't done more Christmas write-ups. It's all a big, toy-filled blur. Christmas 1999 has spe...

It's getting harder and harder to write these posts. My memory just doesn't want to cooperate. As such, this post and my last one will be on two individual gifts from the same year. First up? Donkey Kong 64, a game which I hate with a pas...

To hell with seasonal affective disorder. It's friggin' Christmas time. I wasn't a huge fan of the Playstation 2 when it came out. The launch lineup wasn't exactly stellar, consisting of stuff like Ridge Racer (Which seems to be on every c...

It's December. You know what that means. December has always been a favorite month of mine, mostly because I was a spoiled only child growing up. My parents made sure that gifts with my name on them were piled to the ceiling every Christma...

This is a little bit disjointed. Sorry. I still find it amazing that I can connect my Xbox 360 to the internet and play a game with someone whom I have never met, nor will I ever meet again. It still freaks me out to know that I have a lib...

"BRAAH BRURR DURR, DOO DOO DAAAAAA!" The second of an ongoing series? Let's hope so. Bullet-Proof Software is an interesting company. On the surface, it seems like this was just a random, obscure company that made a lot of stuff in...

I'm a bit of a fan of what most people call "retro" games. I don't entirely like the term "retro" because, when referring to video games, it encompasses a staggering amount of games and consoles. As a rule of thumb, it's best to consider ...

Within the past five years or so, there has been a gigantic surge in companies paying tribute to their past in every way possible: You've got companies like Capcom doing Ducktales: Remastered, which is basically a love letter to the fa...

My dad bought me a Game Gear when I was still a toddler. I probably got it when i was two or three. I had a grand total of three games for it: Sonic The Hedgehog 2, NBA Jam, and Aladdin. I played the everloving hell out of Sonic 2, but I ha...