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.
Former Nintendo marketing leads say the Wii U flop scared third parties off for years. How a 13-million console haunted the Switch’s launch.
From Shredder’s Revenge team Tribute Games: Marvel Cosmic Invasion channels Konami’s X-Men arcade classic with a 15-hero tag-team brawler.
A mid-sixties PS2 tie-in, a director’s veto, two cancelled Batman games and the Nemesis System’s near-death: the Batman Begins game’s long shadow.
At 9-9 in a Pistols Licence to Kill match, two GoldenEye players killed each other on the same frame — and the game crowned both of them winners.
Donkey Kong ’94 hid a hundred-stage masterpiece behind four arcade levels. On Switch Online at last, the secret best Game Boy game gets our full review.
Miyamoto once asked PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida for his honest thoughts on Star Fox Zero. The anecdote that sums up the Wii U’s bravest failure.
Retronauts Episode 653 surveys Bronze Age arcade games, 1971-79: Pong, Breakout, Gun Fight and Asteroids built the medium before the boom.
Some posts begin life as news, this one began as a reader’s comment. Under a Sonic Stadium news story, a commenter named Scyphi, replying to a reader called Diondre Hill, made an observation about Seg
Seven Capcom versus classics, rollback netcode and The Punisher: the definitive arcade collection of Marvel’s greatest fighting era, reviewed.
At a glance: PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox One/Series, Nintendo Switch · Developer: Nightdive Studios · Publisher: Atari · Released: 28 February 2024 · Original: LucasArts, 1995 · 14 missions · Players: 1 There is a generation of players for whom “Doom…