From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
Every fandom has one joke it can deploy in its sleep, and for Sonic the Hedgehog’s, it is a phrase borrowed from a thousand earnest fan-art uploads: original character, do not steal. In May 2015 the j
By the spring of 2015, Sam Dyer had already proved the formula twice, and the ZX Spectrum Visual Compendium Kickstarter, launched on May 15, 2015, the campaign this post originally announced, was the
Some games are rare because they sold badly. Crossed Swords II is rare for a stranger reason: for twenty years, the second game in ADK’s sword-swinging series existed on exactly one format, and it was
Of all the machines fans have tried to immortalise in plastic bricks, the LEGO ZX Spectrum might be the most poetic: Sinclair’s rubber-keyed wonder was itself the budget build of home computing, a com
There is a particular bravery in building a racing game out of flat-shaded polygons on a 16-bit console and then daring anyone to call it slow. This Stunt Race FX review revisits one of the Super Nint
At a glance: Doom 64 (1997) · Developer: Midway Studios San Diego (with id Software) · Platform: Nintendo 64 · Release: 4 April 1997 · Levels: 32 (28 campaign + 4 secret/fun) · Music & sound: Aubrey H
In May 2015, this site asked a cheeky question: who needs Banjo-Kazooie? A team of ex-Rare staff calling themselves Playtonic had just…
The Double Moon Densetsu translation closed one of the Famicom’s strangest cold cases. Double Moon Densetsu — “Legend of the Two Moons” — was a role-playing game released in Japan on 30 October 1992,
The Clock Tower series reached the West in pieces. The second and third games crossed the Pacific, the spin-offs crossed, and yet the one that started everything stayed in Japan for decades. Clock Tow
There is a particular kind of fan project that is not a remake, not a romhack and not a game at all, but somehow feels more magical than any of them. In the spring of 2015, word spread of a website th