Hydlide – Jeremy Parish
it’s almost certainly not with any sort of affection. A slow, primitive-looking grind of a game with repetitive music and confusing action, Hydlide came across as nothing so much as a terrible clone of The Legend of Zelda when it hit the NES in the spring of 1989....
Xevious – by Jeremy Parish
Part of that discrepancy stems from the fact that the American console crash derailed Xevious’s journey. Atari Inc. manufactured and distributed the arcade machine here, but the company’s dissolution prevented the game from reaching eager audiences at home until well...
HEIANKYO ALIEN – by Jeremy Parish
Gaming historians often write about popular media in the pre-internet age as if it all existed in vacuum-sealed silos by country, but that’s not true at all. Intercontinental communication may have been a lot more complicated back then, but consider Heiankyo Alien, a...
Voyage of the Retronaut – by Jeremy Parish
On July 15, 1983, Nintendo launched its first programmable console, the Family Computer. A couple of years later, the Famicom would arrive in America as the Nintendo Entertainment System. In the decade following the console’s Japanese debut, it would help transform...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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