Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle and Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure – By Brett Weiss
Platformers were ubiquitous during the ’80s and ’90s, so I could have picked from any of hundreds of titles for this installment of Old School Bargain Bin. I decided to focus on an early platformer based on a cartoon I didn’t care about and a sequel to one of the most...
Earthworm Jim – A Look Back – By Shaun Sex
If Doug TenNapel had done nothing more than create a character named Queen Slug-For-A-Butt, it would have been enough to make him a video game legend. The name is pure perfection, the brilliant antidote to the seemingly never ending cascade of games that take...
Ninja Gaiden – By Michael Mertes
By the beginning of 1989, the Nintendo Entertainment System already had a plethora of platforming titles available, but none of them had evolved the genre as much as one title in particular. Just a few short months into 1989, Ninja Gaiden set itself apart from other...
Retro Games on Modern Consoles – By Brad Feingold
PINBALLFX3 WILLIAMS COLLECTION VOLUME 2 We have already covered the basics of the first Williams Collection and how awesome it is. Time for Volume 2. Once again, the collection grows for only $9. This time, we are looking at Black Rose, Party Zone, and Mars Attacks....
The Game Scholar: What’s in a Name? – By Leonard Herman
Since the dawn of time, or at least since 1975 when every Tom, Dick and Harry began releasing their own forms of videogame console that used General Instruments’ AY- 3-8500 chip, people have been referring to all video tennis consoles as Pong consoles. This is quite...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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