Games That Haunt Me: Metroid Fusion

by Ben Magnet | Oct 31, 2019 | 2000s, Console/Handheld

Metroid Fusion is a great game.  It’s fantastic and a staple for the GBA.  Every time I talk to someone about Fusion they have nothing but good things to say about it.  So why is it a game that haunts me?  Well I’ll tell you why, it’s because, like...

RETROSPECTIVE: The Theoretical Sega CD Mini

by Jason Russell | Oct 24, 2019 | Console/Handheld, Lists, Magazine Preview

Next in Line for the Retro Mini Treatment from Sega? In my last column I talked about the Sega Genesis Mini and the fact that Sega actually managed to trump its arch rival of years past (Nintendo) in a few key areas of the retro mini market. In the time since, the...

Online Gaming: A Brief History

by Old School Gamer | Oct 23, 2019 | 1990s, 2000s, Console/Handheld, Gaming

The history of online gaming is very long and storied, and we could take it all the way back to packet-based LAN games on the earliest versions of personal computers. And while there’s something to be said about how local network games came before online games, we...

What Nintendo SHOULD Do Next: A Suggestion.

by Ben Magnet | Oct 21, 2019 | 1990s, Console/Handheld

I can hear you already, “Oh great another opinion piece from Ben.  Nothing we haven’t heard before!”  Well if you would put your torches and pitchforks down for a hot second I think I’m on to something here.  Now in the past I’ve written...

About Massively Multiplayer Online Games

by Old School Gamer | Oct 13, 2019 | 2000s, Console/Handheld, Gaming

Would you want to compete with other online players from different parts of the world in a variety of online only games? A massively multiplayer online game also known as (MMOG/MMO) refers to those video games that allow a large group of players to participate...

Games That Haunt Me: Mega Man 8

by Ben Magnet | Oct 11, 2019 | 1990s, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...

I’ve been playing video games for a good long while, but there are some games that, to this very day, haunt me.  Not because the game is bad per se, or because something happened to said game that made it unplayable.  No, I’m talking about games that, for...