Now Hear This: No the Cat Doesn’t Sing!

by Brad Feingold | Mar 6, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...

A few posts back, I wrote about someone sending me a link to a YouTube page that had a bunch of rock and classic songs redone in 8-Bit style.  But after that, I received a couple different emails telling me about some other pages that you can subscribe to,  So I felt...

Blast Corps for N64 Review

by Brendan Meharry | Mar 5, 2018 | 1990s

Blast Corps involves demolishing buildings (using a range of vehicles and robots) before they’re hit by a carrier transporting leaking nuclear missiles. It’s as awesome as it sounds, and was developed by Rare! [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″...

Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: Prologue

by David Oxford | Mar 1, 2018 | 1990s, 2000s

With rival SEGA a continued (albeit faltering) presence in the video game industry and Sony beginning to establish itself as a major player for years to come, Nintendo had to find a way to keep some of the spotlight on them in 1995 as they continued to work towards...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Todd Rogers

by Todd Friedman | Feb 28, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Columns

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Todd Rogers, who is displayed on card number 100, from the Superstars of 2011.  Also Todd can be found on card numbers 356, 397, 521, 551, 660, 1763, 1869, 2049, 2135 and 2516.  The Video Games first “Pro Gamer”, Todd has...

The Last Official Release: Game Boy – Shikakei Atama o Kore Kusuru: Kanji/Keisan no Tatsujin

by Brendan Meharry | Feb 23, 2018 | 1990s

Greetings fellow retro gamers and welcome to a new series called The Last Official Release. Dramatic, I know. As you can likely imagine, in these articles I will be focusing on the last ever games released for consoles – highlighting a different system each post. It...

The 25th Anniversary of the Super FX Chip

by David Oxford | Feb 22, 2018 | 1990s

February 21st, 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Star Fox for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, but by proxy, it also marks another anniversary of note: The debut of the “Mathematical, Argonaut, Rotation & Input/Output” chip, or...