by Matthew Floyd | Jun 24, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
People who play Japanese role-playing games, such as myself, have become somewhat desensitized to the strangeness that these games can evoke. After all, there are very few genres where pre-teen kids are frequently flung into life-threatening circumstances, and all...
by Steve Juon | Jun 22, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
So you’re thinking about playing Chrono Trigger. Your friends and peers have already told you it’s the greatest JRPG ever made, but you were born too late to experience it in its heyday on Super Nintendo. It only gets worse if you decide you want to live that...
by Brian Lesyk | Jun 21, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview
If you were yearning for a solid role-playing game in the late 80s and resided in North America and happened to own a Sega Master System console, you were certainly in the right place at the right time. As luck would have it, you were unknowingly on the cusp of being...
by Jeremy Parish | Jun 18, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, Magazine Preview
If you’re old enough to remember the NES launch in America, you’re likely old enough to remember residual hand wringing in Washington, D.C. about the so-called Cold War “missile gap.” In the 1950s and ’60s, that doctrine stated that the Soviet Union had a numeric...
by Old School Gamer | Jun 14, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
The MSX Japanese home computer system is largely unfamiliar to US audiences, and mayeven fly under the radar of many retro gaming enthusiasts. Elsewhere, it’s a different story. While unsurprisingly commonplace in its native country and in its neighbor South Korea,...