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.
Sonic SatAM fan fiction is where a cancelled cartoon went to keep living. The show — ABC’s Saturday-morning Sonic the Hedgehog, universally “SatAM” to the fans who had to distinguish it from the syndi
In February 1993, Midway released a two-on-two basketball game with digitised players, no fouls, and a commentator who screamed like the building…
More than ten thousand Amiga games, applications and demos, playable in a browser tab with one click of a power button. We explore the Internet Archive’s Amiga Software Library, the Scripted Amiga Emulator beneath it, and what plays beautifully — and what fights back.
Of all the merchandise Sonic the Hedgehog’s name was attached to in the nineties, the strangest might be the one you could…
There is a lovely symmetry to the ZX Spectrum Football Manager story. The original game was written in BASIC by one man, Kevin Toms, who taught himself to program and started a genre. Thirty-four year
At a glance: Rhythm Tengoku (Game Boy Advance, 2006) · The first Rhythm Heaven game · Conceived by musician Tsunku with Nintendo’s WarioWare team · Japan-only on GBA; the series went worldwide on DS ·
Ask a room of Super Nintendo fans to name the console’s greatest year and 1995 wins the argument more often than not. Chrono Trigger landed that spring. EarthBound finally reached the West. Terranigma
On 23 July 2016, at the Sonic the Hedgehog 25th anniversary party during San Diego Comic-Con, Sega unveiled two new Sonic games — and the first gameplay of Sonic in LEGO Dimensions. The original post
The sold-out crowd at the House of Blues in San Diego on the evening of 22 July 2016 had been promised a party. Sonic’s 25th anniversary, held in the middle of San Diego Comic-Con, with concerts, merchandise and what Sega…
For years, the only legal way to own Sonic X in English was to hunt down ageing DVDs of a cartoon that had been edited for Saturday-morning television — music replaced, scenes trimmed, and whole layer