When the word “shooter” is brought up among gamers, first-person shooters like Call of Duty and Halo typically come to mind, or maybe vertical scrolling “bullet hell” games like Ikaruga and Raiden IV. That’s not the case for this old-school gamer. My mind goes...
If you ask a gamer to name some popular shooter titles, they will tell you games like Call of Duty, Doom, Halo, Grand Theft Auto and Goldeneye. Before all of these hit the shelves, Nintendo had a vision of providing a shooter game with the new Nintendo Entertainment...
In a previous issue, I talked about the Switch collections from Konami: the Contra Collection and the Castlevania Collection. But did you know that there was a third one… or should I say a first one? Prior to these two awesome classic collections, in April 2019,...
As a child growing up in the 80s, my beloved video game console of choice was the Nintendo Entertainment System. Despite all the different con- troller options that came out for the system, like the NES Advantage arcade stick, I’ve always gravitated towards the stock...
The following are excerpts from a tattered notebook recovered from the mummified hand of an unknown explorer. How the explorer got into his leathery condition is still a mystery that maybe these notes can solve. A bigger mystery is how this explorer was found under a...
Late in 1981, I discovered a trio of exclusive shooters for the Intellivision: Astrosmash, Space Armada, and Star Strike. Each is easy to find today, making them a great bargain for fans of the system. Complete boxed copies are worth only a few dollars each. Before I...