It was thanks to Cary’s recent post, Playing Games Past Their Prime, that I had a revelation concerning a few questions I had been asking as of late. It largely boils down to: why do some old games feel dated, while others from the same era do not? Furthermore, how is it that even new…
Category: Retro
The Road Better Left Untaken
I love Crash but playing through the Crash Bandicoot N’ Sane Trilogy reminded me of just how infuriating the original game could be. It requires much greater levels of precision and endurance than its successors, and there no level that typifies this more than “The High Road’. I truly, absolutely, wholeheartedly, and unabashedly hate “The…
Mighty Gunvolt Burst Coming to Nintendo Switch and 3DS
It turns out that even though Mighty No. 9 may be dead in the water, it’s characters can still find homes in other, better games. That’s right, “Beck” and “Call” from Mighty No. 9 will still be living on thanks to a new game titles Mighty Gunvolt Burst. (video from Youtube channel: INTI CREATES) Based on…
What is Your Gaming Pet Peeve?
Pet peeves. We all have them, and they come in all shapes and sizes. Many involve ordinary, everyday life. Maybe you don’t like when people walk on your carpet without taking their shoes off. Maybe you get really irritated when people leave their shopping carts in the middle of the aisle at the grocery store. …
FFV and the Joy of Feeling Competent
I have mentioned it from time to time, but over the last few years, I’ve been trying to catch up on a whole bunch of retro games I had missed. And at this point, I’m largely done. Sure, there are definitely more retro games out there that I should play one day, but as for…
Day 13: A Game I’ve Played More Than Five Times
Ah, back to the 30-day video game topics. Despite the obvious implication that this is only supposed to span the course of roughly a month, these posts have been taking me years to get through. Well, better get back to it. Right now, we’re only on day 13. The topic: a game I’ve played more…
How Retro Can You Go: A Discussion of Spooniness
There are some gamers who openly admit that they have no desire to play older games because they prefer the more advanced, better looking games of today. There are others who say that gameplay is the only thing that matters, so if a game is good, no matter how old it is, they will play…
The Apparent Science of RPGs
A good number of years ago, I bought Final Fantasy Anthology and Final Fantasy Chronicles for the PS1 in order to play Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger. The other games that came in these mini-collections were Final Fantasy IV and V. While I had always been interested in FFVI and onward, I never heard…
Putting a Name to Nostalgia: MindMaze
I’m sure all of us have some game or movie or book that we remember, even when the name itself has been forgotten to us. Strangely enough, at least in my case, I often have fond memories of these forgotten stories, despite the contradiction of forgetting the name of something I claimed to have enjoyed. …
Resonance: Mining Melancholy
I had to check several times to make sure no one had already written about this one, as Mining Melancholy might possibly be one of the most brilliant songs in a game that already has plenty of amazing tracks. As expected, Mining Melancholy is found in every mine level of Donkey Kong Country 2. As…
VIRTUAL BASTION 