by Conor McBrien | Jun 6, 2019 | 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...
That’s right! After seventeen years away, the old-school alien duo from the planet Funkotron has returned. Crowdfunded through Kickstarter back in 2015, ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is the fourth game in the series and the first to be independently published....
by Conor McBrien | Apr 5, 2019 | 1990s, 2000s, Reviews
W hile most classic driving games would make players participate in races, stunts, or demolition derbies, Driver has players do things like helping crooks flee the scene of a bank robbery or delivering a stolen car to a chop shop. In Driver and Driver 2, you play as...
by Conor McBrien | Jan 30, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
It’s January 30th, 2019–the day the Wii Shop Channel closes for good. For the last couple years, it has existed as a shell of its former self–serving more as a museum of screenshots and synopses than a digital store–because Nintendo disabled...
by Conor McBrien | Jan 23, 2019 | 1990s, 2000s
The long-awaited remake of Resident Evil 2 comes out in two days, so I decided to look back at a controller that was designed specifically for Resident Evil games. The Biohazard Dedicated Controller (released internationally as the Resident Evil Pad) was released in...
by Conor McBrien | Jan 16, 2019 | 1990s
You would be forgiven for not knowing about the Star Ocean series. In the pantheon of Japanese role-playing games, Star Ocean sits well below the likes of Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest despite all of them being published by the same company—Square Enix. Today,...