A review of Untitled Goose Game from Boss Fight Books

by William Schwartz | Sep 20, 2025 | 2010s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Reviews

  While Untitled Goose Game itself has only a dubious association with the concept of a retro game (it came out in 2019), the Boss Fight book by James O’Connor posits the indie title as part of an unusual gaming tradition- by which I mean Australia. Yes,...

Commodore – Retcoming a brand – by Brian Lesyk

by Brian Lesyk | Sep 19, 2025 | 1970s, 2000s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview

Right now, you’re wondering what retcoming is. Being as the term was first coined only moments ago by yours truly, I’ll be happy to explain. It’s a made up word, of course, because as Thor so deftly proclaimed in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, Peri Fractic (Christian...

Join the Resistance

by Old School Gamer | Sep 15, 2025 | Console/Handheld

Kirby’s N64 Debut Had the Best Feature of the Franchise

by Matthew Owen | Sep 9, 2025 | Console/Handheld

The Kirby franchise first kicked off in 1992 with Kirby’s Dream Land on the Game Boy, and over the course of five mainline entries, the formula was pretty established by the turn of the century. Yet, for the pink puffball’s big debut on the Nintendo 64 in...

Mutliplayer Battle Mode added to ModRetro Tetris

by William Schwartz | Aug 21, 2025 | 2020s, Console/Handheld

  While the ModRetro Chromatic is in general a self-contained device, the Cart Clinic software is a means by which the firmware can be updated. This includes for ModRetro games themselves, and ModRetro recently released a new proof of concept of the idea with the...

A Look Back at Duck Hunt

by William Schwartz | Aug 15, 2025 | 1980s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Reviews

  Recently I set up a Nintendo Entertainment System in my home. I’m just slightly too young to have any personal nostalgia for the NES (I was more in the SNES/N64 cohort), but my girlfriend is a different story. Despite being excited about having an NES in...