20 Years Later, Snowboard Kids 2 Remains a Hidden Gem
While the Nintendo 64 wasn’t the most revolutionary home console, the clunky cartridge-based system still managed to…
Why Nostalgia For Video Games Is Uniquely Powerful
This year, Netflix will premiere the third season of its hit documentary series The Toys That Made Us. This series of…
Street Fighter Showcase Is A Trip Down Memory Lane
Last night, some of Street Fighter’s old guard assembled to play an exhibition tournament that took the players and…
One Of The NES's Weirdest Controllers Gets A Modern Update
Remember the NES Max? It was a weird boomerang-shaped controller from 1988 that was, like so many things, ahead of its…
If The NES Had A Screensaver, It Might Look Like This
Alter Dark is a new project that lets you create your own screensavers out of NES ROMs.
What We Like And Love About StarCraft: Remastered
StarCraft came out 20 years ago and became one of the most popular and prominent esports ever made. Maddy Myers and…
Blizzard Shows Off StarCraft: Remastered With Biggest Names In Brood War
After 20 years, StarCraft players will finally be able to see the details of the enigmatic man inside the spinning…
Why Today’s Metroid Announcements Are Such A Big Deal
Nintendo announced two Metroid titles today: Metroid Prime 4 and a 3DS remake of the 1991 Game Boy classic Metroid II:…
Narita Boy Is A Cyberpunk Game Inspired By TV Scanlines
Narita Boy is part video game project, part idle day dream. Even its creator isn’t entirely sure what it will become.…
The Sega Channel Blew My Ten-Year-Old Mind
The announcement of the Xbox streaming service briefly took me back to the ‘90s and to the Sega Channel, an invention…
A Board Game’s Idea Of The Moon Landing, 14 Years Before It Happened
The oldest toy I own is a board game called Careers. It’s set 14 years before Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969, yet…
Seven Different Types Of Horrible Video Game Dialogue
Dialogue is a tricky thing to pull off in a video game. It’s already more difficult to suspend disbelief over a video…
The folks over at Touch Arcade have uploaded a hands-on video of Horizon Chase. It’s being marketed as a “love letter”…
Retro Games Can Still Make You Tons Of Money
The retro gaming industry continues to explode.
When Super Mario World Meets Mortal Kombat
It all began when Mario was violently murdered by Shang Tsung. It all went downhill from there. Or uphill, depending…
Maybe The N64 Rainbow Road Isn't As Great As We All Remember
Rainbow Road on the N64 is the stuff of legends, so Nintendo set a high bar for itself when it remade the track for…
Game Of Thrones' Most Brutal Battle Now Sounds Like A SNES Game
Game of Thrones plus old-school video game sound effects? Suddenly a lot of profoundly heartbreaking scenes are, um...…
One of Minecraft's Greatest and Oldest Web Series Turns Four [UPDATE]
"You're probably asking yourself, what the heck is this? And, yeah, you are 100% right to ask yourself that. This is…
Now I Know Why Lemmings Died
Remember Lemmings? Of course you do. It was that cute puzzle game from the nineties about shepherding herds of the…