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’s first home appearance did not happen in a game you could buy in a shop. It happened on a floppy disk that came free with a German computer magazine, in a platform game made in under two weeks
Pixwerk’s Chaos Engine-inspired shooter Tower 57 was only ‘considering’ an Amiga port during its 2015 Kickstarter. The campaign succeeded, the PC game shipped — and then, against every odd, Daniel Müßener’s AmigaOS 4 port arrived and became a flagship.
Some glitches are bugs. This one reads like a haunting. During a speedrun race in September 2013, a runner named DOTA_TeaBag watched Mario launch skywards in Tick Tock Clock without touching a single
Most Commodore 64 games introduce themselves politely. MAH does not. When Simone “saimo” Bevilacqua released it through his RETREAM label in August 2015 — a free download on CSDb, announced with the w
The Doom in Doom mod sounds like a punchline, but in July 2015 it was very real: load up a level, walk over to a battered arcade cabinet standing in the corner, press use, and the screen flickers into
The Bad Apple Vectrex port should not exist, and the reasons it does explain an entire culture. Bad Apple!! began life as a piece of game music — the stage-three theme from Touhou Project’s fourth gam
Nintendo announced the news on July 13, 2015, and the industry stopped. This Satoru Iwata tribute looks back at the programmer who became president of Nintendo — a man who fixed other companies’ games
At a glance: Rise of the Triad: The H.U.N.T. Begins (1994) · Developer: Apogee Software (dir. Tom Hall) · Publisher: Apogee · Platform: MS-DOS · Release: 21 December 1994 · Content: 10 exclusive singl
A PC Engine RGB mod starts from a strange fact: the sharpest picture the machine can produce was inside it from the day it shipped, and NEC never sold you a way to see it. The stock Japanese console w
Every console generation gets one game that tries to swallow the future whole. For the Dreamcast, it was Shenmue. This Shenmue Dreamcast review returns to Yu Suzuki and Sega AM2’s Yokosuka epic — rele