Space Invaders Invincible Collection Review (Nintendo Switch)

by Mike Mertes | Aug 24, 2021 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Reviews

Space Invaders Invincible Collection In the year 1978, Japan’s citizens fell prey to the never-ending onslaught of Space Invaders. Of course, these were not actual alien invaders from space that struck the island country, but rather digital creatures from a...

A Climb to the Sierra Mountain – by Mike Mertes

by Mike Mertes | Aug 23, 2021 | 1990s, 2000s, Columns, Magazine Preview

The creation of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers by Jane Jensen sparked a fire in the point-and-click  adventure game genre. That fire shined a light on a  less traversed path in the genre that was previously  thought to be one that could never sell games: Horror. ...

iiRcade Review – Dragon Master by Todd Friedman

by Todd Friedman | Aug 14, 2021 | 1990s, 2020s, Reviews

The fighting game you get free with your iiRcade cabinet is Dragon Fighter. The original arcade machine came out in 1994 and published by UNiCO Electronics. This game reminds me of the Street Fighter game in terms of graphics and game play. Travel around the globe and...

Breakers Revenge iiRcade Review

by Mike Mertes | Aug 9, 2021 | 1990s, Reviews

Breakers Revenge has hit iiRcade! Sure, the iiRcade has plenty of fighting games on it, but Breakers Revenge is a massively underappreciated fighting game that rivals even the best fighting games from Capcom or SNK. Breakers Revenge is an enhanced version of the...

NEO GEO MVSX Impressions

by Mike Mertes | Jul 28, 2021 | 1990s, Arcade

This weekend at Classic Game Fest, I had the chance to check out the NEO GEO MVSX at the UNICO booth. The MVSX is an officially licensed NEO GEO arcade cabinet from UNICO that features 50 classic SNK NEO GEO games that once graced the arcades or, for those who had the...

Five Underrated NES Sports Games

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jul 28, 2021 | 1980s, 1990s, Lists

The dog days of Summer are here. Turn the air conditioner on with us and play some under-appreciated NES Sports games with us. While the console has plenty of masterful sports titles, there are even more out there you may have missed. Check out these five forgotten...