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.
In January 2015, an auction listing for an NES cartridge did something auctions for NES cartridges were not supposed to do: it made international headlines. The Stadium Events NES auction, a sealed, p
Of all the premises in Konami’s considerable catalogue, Yume Penguin Monogatari may be the most perfectly strange: a love story about a penguin who must lose weight or lose his girl. Released for the
The Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth fan game is the great lost LucasArts adventure — except LucasArts never made it. When this post appeared in January 2015, the studio behind Fate of Atlantis
From Battle Chess’s brawling pieces to the heavyweight brains of Chess Champion 2175, a tour of Amiga chess — and a verdict on the pretty, well-behaved mystery game players still half-remember.
In the first week of January 2015, the Internet Archive quietly performed one of the most significant acts in the history of game preservation, and it did it in the least dramatic way imaginable: it put 2,334 MS-DOS games on…
The news that swept the retro blogs in the first days of January 2015 had an irresistible shape: Worms, Team17’s artillery classic of exploding sheep and last-second bazooka shots, was coming to the Commodore 64. Not officially, and not exactly…
On New Year’s Eve 2014, Swedish Amiga enthusiast Mikael Persson — better known on the forums as Hipoonios — released his second game: Smurf Rescue, a cheerful free platformer in which Smurfette sets o
Before the internet taught Britain to shop by scrolling, it shopped by flicking. Twice a year, from 1973 onwards, Argos published a…
Most clone consoles are exercises in cheapness — the least hardware that can legally be sold in a Nintendo-shaped box. The Super 8-Bit NES clone was the opposite: a handmade machine built around genui
Five days before Christmas 2014, while most of the games industry was busy discounting the year’s big releases, the English Amiga Board quietly received a present of a very different kind: a brand new