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.
The Dreamcast’s afterlife runs on stories like this one. Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles began as a game for an open-source Korean handheld almost nobody owned, was rebuilt for Sega’s final console by
On Saturday 6 August 2016, in the middle of Dublin Comic Con, four musicians walked on stage with two violins, a viola and a cello, and played the music of The Legend of Zelda to a room full of people
In the summer of 2016, a video series called Multiplayer Showcase settled in for its biggest subject: not a new release, but a twenty-year-old Sega Saturn game that a room full of modern multiplayer options still could not dethrone. Saturn…
The Final Fantasy VII Monopoly board game was announced on 29 June 2016, in the middle of a merchandise wave nobody had predicted: a twenty-year-old PlayStation RPG, suddenly the most licensed propert
Ancient’s 8-bit Sonic is no port: new zones, hidden emeralds and a Koshiro soundtrack make it a Master System essential. Our full review.
On 25 June 2016, Sega threw Sonic a 25th birthday party at one of its Joypolis amusement parks in Japan and livestreamed the whole thing. There was new footage of Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice, confirmation that Sonic Team’s next…
The NES/Famicom Visual Compendium Kickstarter was, by any normal measure, a triumph in progress. When Bitmap Books launched the campaign on 1 June 2016, it asked for £25,000 to produce a lavish art bo
Every Amiga collector eventually asks the question a forum user put plainly in June 2016: what’s the best way to back up Amiga disks when the disks are copy-protected originals? He owned a shelf of ga
Lizardcube’s hand-drawn remake honours Westone’s 1989 Master System classic — old passwords and all. How it set the revival template.
In May 2016, Team17 marked the Worms 21st anniversary with a double reveal: a multiplayer trailer for the forthcoming Worms W.M.D, and an infographic of series statistics topped by a number too good t