Retro

Phantasy Star III was a game I wanted to love, especially since its predecessor was a science fiction classic and…

Considered part of the Quintet Creation Trilogy, Terranigma was the culminating tour de force from the Japanese…

Sometimes a piece of pop culture worms its way into your brain, builds a comfortable, cost-efficient home in your…

Video game historian and YouTuber Liam Robertson, with the help of fellow game historian Frank Gasking, found a…

I’ve played with a lot of mini arcade machines, but none as impressive as New Wave Toys’ RepliCade X Dragon’s Lair.…

Coming this holiday season from arcade amusement company UNIS Technology, and the hollow, spider-infested shell of…

Primal Rage was a strange, but cool looking arcade from the 90s that used stop-motion animation to create its dino…

Every discussion about the American version of Super Mario Bros. 2 invariably turns to its origins as a completely…

Two decades ago today Saban Entertainment and Fox Kids released Digimon: The Movie in theaters across the U.S. An…

Quality video game tome publisher Bitmap Books is about to launch pre-orders for Game Boy: The Box Art Collection, a…

Next-gen is almost upon us, and both Microsoft and Sony have finally revealed which games are launching alongside…

New consoles are coming soon and that means people are starting to look at what games will actually be available at…

As Nintendo extravagantly celebrates Super Mario Bros.’s 35th birthday, I keep coming back to one thought: But what…

I thought I knew everything there was to know about the Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog games. Those first four chapters—S…

While some of the sound effects in the original Doom were created just for the game, most of them actually came from…

Twenty years ago this month Square released Chrono Cross, a big, beautiful mess of a game bursting at the seams with…

The Neo Geo sure has been enjoying a real retro renaissance over the past couple of years. We’ve gotten the Neo Geo…

Video games look really good these days. I boot up almost any PS4 game released in the last few years and I’m…

I’m a huge fan of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, but I hadn’t played all the way through its direct sequel…

Few things make me happier than hearing that a generous soul, upon discovering a prototype or unreleased game, has…