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.
Fan games are the mayflies of the hobby: announced with fireworks, demoed once, then quietly abandoned as jobs, exams and life get in the way. Sonic Time Twisted is the glorious exception. In April 20
At a glance: Sega Dreamcast · Developer: Sonic Team · Released: 1998 (Japan), 1999 (worldwide) · Six playable characters · Genre: 3D platformer / action-adventure · Screenshots show the Director’s Cut port Every console launch has a game that carries…
Some games are love letters to a specific machine. Hyper Sentinel is a love letter to the Commodore 64 — to Andrew Braybrook’s Uridium, to the sideways fury of Delta and Armalyte, to an era when a sin
At a glance: The Sonic the Hedgehog ice cream bar · Made by Blue Bunny · A character ice cream bar with two gumball eyes · On sale, in one form or another, for three decades · Famous less for its flav
On 22 July 2016, at a party in San Diego celebrating twenty-five years of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega showed a short teaser. A city burned. Two Sonics — the modern one and the squat classic one from Soni
Some soundtracks are tied to their consoles forever. Yuzo Koshiro’s score for The Revenge of Shinobi was written for the Mega Drive’s sound chip, all pulse waves and FM sparkle, and for 27 years that
In February 2017, a forum poster asked a question that sounds simple and turns out to be one of the most interesting in retro hardware: he had an Amiga fitted with a scandoubler/flicker-fixer, a Photo
The Castlevania Netflix series was announced in February 2017, and the original post on this site greeted it with the exact scepticism the news had earned: the track record of video game adaptations,
Of all the Sonic games ever made, SegaSonic Cosmo Fighter Galaxy Patrol might be the strangest: a coin-operated spaceship ride for small children, built by Sega in 1993, in which you climb aboard, tak
MSX2Cas turned an Android phone into a cassette deck for real MSX hardware — converting CAS tape images to audio and feeding them through the headphone jack, no datasette required.