Retro Life

I played more games in 2018 than in any prior year, which makes sense given it was also my first year as a full time…

Whether you want to play your classic games on the Switch, the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, a half-sized wooden…

While I spent a sizable chunk of 2018 in a hospital, I did manage to squeeze in time with some very good games.

New anthologies of old games have gotten a lot better recently, especially on the Nintendo Switch. In addition to…

Smash Bros. players are often as particular about the controllers they use as they are which characters they pick to…

Earlier this year, researchers tried teaching an AI to play the original Sonic the Hedgehog as part of the The…

Chuck Norris references. Anal jokes. Killing two dozen raptors to harvest ten raptor heads. The Barrens. Shit, after…

The musician Alex Lasater, who goes by A L E X, considers his happy place to be a basement shag-carpet floor, on one…

I never really thought much about the Dreamcast until it had all but vanished. By then, it had become a minor…

The old parental and Congressional outrage about video games was always pretty stupid. The belief that video games…