retro-gaming

These are some of the fondest video game memories that I have in this old skull of mine because I was there for ALL of the home gaming ev...

Going back and looking that this ROM the other day and playing it a bit brought back a bunch of memories about the early days of home gam...

It took me a while to actually end up remembering the title of this game despite the fact that I had such fond memories of it and that wi...

For a lot of you, arcades might just seem like something that old people like me talk about but there was a time when they were just one ...

Cross-posted from Substack. Converted to Markdown by ChatGPT 4o; any transcription errors are the AI’s fault. The original Super Mario B...

Do you even know what a Vectrex is? Well, chances are that you don't. It was only around for a little while, didn't sell very well, and...

Gerber Baby and Michael Irons A few years ago a friend of mine mentioned that he had picked up an old Super Nintendo and asked if I wante...

If you follow my writups you probably already know that I just recently wrote an article about how remakes are not necessarily a good ide...

I have very fond memories of early RPG games because I was just the right age to be very interested in this sort of thing. As a child, I...

The other day someone asked me if I had ever created a top-10 or top-20 games that I personally think are the best ever made. I have nev...

I'm likely a bit older than most of you and while that means that I will likely see a real life "game over" screen before you d...

When I say "first time" I mean in 1986 when I was in 4th grade. I'm not playing it today for the first time. The 80's were a p...

The late 80's and early 90's were a pretty exciting time in gaming. I say this because home consoles were getting a lot better and I thi...

When Zelda first was released on the NES in the mid-80's this was something that nobody in the world had ever seen the likes of before. ...

When I first acquired this Nintendo Switch, my game choices were dictated by what my local friend had for me to borrow and when I saw he ...

I have really been enjoying this game which is a revisit to a classic game that was originally released exclusively on Game Boy. Honest...

I was there when the first Zelda came out in the 80's. This was the birth of RPG's for a lot of people and it was the first wide-release...

I have been gaming since there were home consoles to play. We got a Pong system when I was a very young kid so yeah, i've been around fo...

Back in my "golden age" of gaming I was one of the few people that had access to a TG-16. For various reasons, mostly the sti...

I am an older gamer and being old doesn't bother me at all. I was around when the Atari 2600 hit the shelves and quickly became a part o...

I'm showing my age by revealing this but it is actually true and I was, just like everyone else that got duped with the marketing, genuin...

I haven't played them all but I've played enough of them to know that they can and will make a Lego game out of just about anything. The...

Since re-upping my PS-Plus account I have decided that I am not going to jump from game to game but instead focusing on something I enjoy...

So it's been a few months since I last even switched on my trusty PS4 and things have been good in those times. I got a lot of things do...

Since I did my last writeup about Resident Evil the original game on PS1 I started thinking about what my favorite game franchises of all...

For a lot of you the answer to this question will likely be "nothing" because you were either a baby or weren't even alive at a...

I believe Starcraft 2 is one of the greatest games of all time. Despite being a decade old and now free-to-play this game still has a ma...

Unless you are Japanese, there is a good chance you never had a Turbografx-16 or any gaming something-or-other that was ever manufactured...

I see a lot of people complaining in various forums that games have been increasing in price with new releases sometimes hitting the $80 ...

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