Today, dear readers, we will be taking a look at the effect nostalgia plays in our gaming, but from a different angle…. As you may or may not be aware, I have been trying to catch up with the old classics from the SNES, namely Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, EarthBound, and Super…
Category: Retro
Kazooie Vs. Tooie
Two of my favorite games of all time are the original Banjo-Kazooie games for the Nintendo 64. I started off with Tooie and played the original afterward, and for the longest time, I firmly believed that Banjo-Tooie was the better of the two. It was a time when I believed bigger was better, and Banjo-Tooie…
EarthBound and Why I Find Pizza and Burgers Relatable
Part of what makes video games fun is that they allow us to experience things not possible in real life. We can visit fantasy worlds, wield immense power, and ultimately save the world, or even the universe, from evil. In most cases anyway. Part of the thrill that comes from video games is the unfamiliar. …
Playing Games of the Past in the Present, or, Ready Player Two?
It’s easy to forget that the video game industry hasn’t been around forever. In terms of mass producing games, it hasn’t even reached the half-century mark. (I cite Pong [1972] as the first mass-produced game – the choice is debatable.) And in terms of its competitors in the “sports and leisure” Trivial Pursuit category, such…
Still Wanna Catch ‘Em All!
It was just about 20 years ago now that gamers were introduced to the world of Pokemon. It’s arrival at the time was probably just as exciting as any other new release, but little did we know that Pokemon would become so much more than a one-off adventure about a 10-year-old collecting strange monsters. Somehow,…
Unforgettable: The Flying Shell of Rayman 2
I haven’t written a whole lot of posts for my Unforgettable series because something has to really stand out to me to make the list. It has to be shocking, exciting, or just too awesome not to share with the world. It is only fitting, then, that one of my favorite games of all time…
The Great Mysteries of Rayman 2
After spending the last several hundred hours of my game time playing RPGs (no joke), I needed a break. The only games currently in my backlog at the moment are Final Fantasy IV and V, so I decided I would instead need to revisit something I had played before. Being in quite a Rayman mood…
Unforgettable: Click Clock Wood
Typically when I write about something unforgettable in a video game, I usually talk about something small that stuck with me. A particularly memorable cut scene, an extra epic segment of gameplay. Today, however, I am discussing an entire world. It was after my recent playthrough of Rayman 2 that I decided next to revisit…
The Lost World of DKC2
I’ve always loved secret levels in games. Even if I’ve played through them countless times, knowing they aren’t a part of the main game just makes them feel special, and I like that. When I cover secrets in games, however, I typically write about secrets that aren’t as well known, such as the 1000th Yellow…
What Makes Super Metroid Great: 21 Years Later
The waning health of my Super Nintendo has been a double-edged sword. On one hand, it is quite a sad day indeed when one of your oldest consoles begins to die. (Well, characters disappearing is definitely a nuisance, to say the least.) Plus, now I need to hunt down a used one, still in working…
VIRTUAL BASTION 