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...

Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn: Are You Shaqin’ With Me?!?!?!?

by Brad Feingold | Feb 21, 2018 | 1990s, Console/Handheld

For the past years, unknown how many to be exact, retro gaming has become a popular concept to not only to the gaming community, but to the manufacturers as well.  We have seen so many retro systems created by major companies as well as the everyday user too.  We look...

Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! for Genesis/Mega Drive Review

by Brendan Meharry | Feb 19, 2018 | 1990s

Remember Greendog? The lovable doofus of a surfer that has to find 6 pieces of Aztez treasure in the Carribean to lift a curse? No? Oh. It was made by the same developers as Sonic 2, though. Strange that it has fallen into obscurity… I wonder why?...