A review of The History of the Pokémon Games
It’s the thirty-year anniversary of the very first Pokémon games which were released back in 1996. Nintendo is pulling out all the stops reminding us. But unofficial historians are getting in on the act too, with The History of the Pokémon Games by James...
Retro Review – Choplifter for the Sega Master System
Set the wayback machine to the early ’80s. While we had recently gotten our first home computer, the Commodore VIC-20, my cousins had been enjoying the Apple II system that my uncle used for writing sermons and the like. One of the first home computer games that...
Retro Review: Fort Apocalypse for the C64
Early in my video gaming life, one of the first computer games I ever played was Dan Gorlin’s classic Choplifter on my cousin’s Apple II. The simple presentation, on that glowing monochrome green CRT, was instantly addictive. When we got our Commodore 64...
Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball
The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the...
A review of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask from Boss Fight Books
One of the most popular books of the Boss Fight series, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is finally back in print. It’s easy enough to see why. Despite its odd place in the canon, with the game being a rushed project designed to make use of the...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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