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.
Few fan rituals capture a company mid-metamorphosis like the year-end list video, and the Sega games of 2017 gave SEGAbits plenty to reckon with. In December 2017 the long-running Sega fan site publis
In December 2017, when this site first covered Tobu Tobu Girl, the Game Boy had been commercially dead for well over a decade — and yet here was a brand-new game for it, made by two people in Odense,
Some games wear their influences quietly. Tower 57 announced its ancestry in its very first pitch: a top-down, twin-stick shooter in chunky pixel art, built by two people in Berlin, openly inspired by
The Sonic IDW announcement of 21 July 2017 took about one sentence to say and ended a quarter-century of comics history. Sega confirmed, during San Diego Comic-Con, that it had signed with IDW Publish
At a glance: You will edit two AmigaDOS scripts — S:WHDLoad-Startup and S:WHDLoad-Cleanup — add a tiny ARexx helper, and test the…
It ended the way long marriages often do in public: with a short, bloodless statement and a lot of unanswered questions. On…
On 6 July 2017, Sega revealed the vocal version of “Fist Bump,” the main theme of Sonic Forces — and Fist Bump for Sonic Forces instantly became the most argued-about three minutes in the series’ musi
In June 2017, the makers of Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict revealed the film’s cover art, and the Spectrum Addict film acquired the only face it could possibly have worn: a painting by Oliver Frey. Frey
The Sonic Mania pre-order trailer lasted about ninety seconds, and it did something Sonic trailers had failed to do for years: it made the whole internet feel the same thing at the same time. Released
On 25 April 2017, Sega released the first full gameplay footage of Classic Sonic in Sonic Forces, and the Sonic Forces Classic Sonic gameplay reveal became the moment the whole project snapped into fo