A review of Animal Crossing from Boss Fight Books

by William Schwartz | Feb 9, 2025 | 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Reviews

  At multiple points in her summary of the history of Animal Crossing, Kelsey Lewin discusses the seeming impossibility of marketing a game like this. She documents the first, almost entirely forgotten clip discussing the game at E3 2001, sandwiched between high...

MACROSS -Shooting Insight *Review* – Game Released February 7th, 2025

by Todd Friedman | Feb 5, 2025 | 1990s, Console/Handheld, Reviews

Embark upon a galaxy-spanning mission to rescue the missing songstresses! Based on the popular long-running animated science fiction franchise, MACROSS -SHOOTING INSIGHT- is a brand-new Multi-Dimensional Shooting Game out now!   TO ORDER CLICK HERE  Pilots,...

Review of the GB Operator – By William Schwartz

by William Schwartz | Feb 3, 2025 | 1990s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview

What distinguishes handheld gaming in the modern era? Strictly speaking, most games today are handheld, as mobile games are played on phones. If you want classic games on that platform, you can probably find them. But Epilogue’s suspicion – borne out by the fact...

Non-Nintendo Handhelds – by Patrick Hickey, Jr.

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jan 31, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview

Could you imagine gaming without handhelds? While that section of the market is still dominated by Nintendo today, that hasn’t always been the case. Way before the Nintendo Game Boy, there was a market for one-off handheld games made by Coleco and even Nintendo’s Game...

How Half-Life 2 Forever Changed the FPS Genre

by Matthew Owen | Jan 29, 2025 | 2000s, Console/Handheld

In 2024, just over 20 years ago, Valve created Half-Life 2, a first-person shooter that continues the story of silent protagonist Gordon Freeman. Once a humble scientist, Freeman now finds himself in the middle of a global war against a multidimensional species known...

Grinding: Mindless Filler, or A Different Kind of Fun?

by William Schwartz | Jan 27, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Console/Handheld, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, Gaming, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform

  With the appearance of the role-playing game on video consoles, a genre less about actual role-playing and more about navigating enemy dungeons via numbers rather than reflexes, we also saw the appearance of grinding. How grinding works is simple enough. If...