Chris Kohler's discussions

Yep! You can stack up Sonic & Knuckles, use a Game Genie... the Mega SG thinks it’s a Genesis, and acts like a Genesis. It’s not like an emulator box like the Flashback where the first thing it does is “dump” the ROM to memory and then run the file -- this is running off the cartridge natively, which means stacks work… Read more

Damn. I'll just leave it there to shame myself.  Read more

Wow. I mean, yeah, I know that the Color TV Game 6 came out in 1977, but would I have massively overthought it and figured that HQ wouldn’t have known that? I guess I’ll never know what I’d have done. (Probably would have gone out on question 11, anyway.) Read more

1. Yeah, I do think that BoxBoy (and the Joker release for Smash) is the April game. That said, May is wide open, and the rumor about Metroid Prime Trilogy is that it’s done and just waiting for a slot, and I could see why they’d maybe hold that back from the Direct, so maybe that’s it.

2. From a financials… Read more

Lots of people have questions about how they can read just the newest comments on these lists. Answer: there’s a drop-down menu up and to the right that says “Sort by.” Change it from “Popular” to “Newest!” Read more

Lots of people have questions about this! When we brought up the discussion again amongst the staff this month, there were many people who thought it was strange that the Yakuza series wasn’t represented on our PlayStation 4 list. So even though it seemed strange to go back and add an older game, there was significant… Read more

Fixed it; thank you! Read more

I don’t know if it’s the “best,” but nobody else is going to say Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture, so I will. Read more

Ridiculous. How could such a game ever be considered art? What a monstrously bad opinion.

Mario Party 4 is art. Read more

I do cryptic crosswords. But not regular crosswords. Read more

Oh, interesting. I met Genyo Takeda, who taught Miyamoto game design, for about two seconds at DICE last year. So while I “met” him, I’ve never had the chance to sit down and interview him, so he’d probably be my pick. Read more

I’m surprised Gorogoa didn’t catch on a little more than it did. Read more

1. Japanese curry!
2. High. WSJ says it’s happening, and it’s also the right timing. This is right around when we saw the DS Lite. Read more

Either way, whatever issues there were have clearly been resolved, as it came to Wii U and SNES Classic. Weirdly, Mother 2 wasn’t on the Super Famicom Classic, which indicates that the U.S. branch of Nintendo specifically put it on the Classic, knowing it’s a big draw here. Read more

They’re very popular games and owned outright by Nintendo, so I can’t imagine it’ll be much of a wait. My only question about the Mother series is what they plan to do with it. If I were Nintendo, I’d do a full-on three-game collection for Switch with bonus features that lives outside of the subscription service. Read more

It is a really, really beautiful game. Clever battle gameplay, touching storyline, amazing looks and music. That’s why it’s so tragic that it didn’t make it over — if it was released today it would win Game of the Year awards. It’s a masterpiece. Read more

See, Schreier told me I should give away the answer in the text, but clearly this proves I was right to just leave it unexplained. Read more

Yeah, all that shit with the prism and the torch and the tree and the nut and the pot... I was just following the FAQ, I was thinking, how the hell would you piece this all together just from clues in the game? Maybe it’s possible but it seems ridiculously difficult. Read more

Well, it’s actually available in the Genesis Classics collection I referenced - but I agree, I’d much rather have an upgraded version like this. Maybe someday! Read more

Switch is region-free, get that Japan account set up! Read more