You know what I always like discussing? Well, yes, Trouble Shooter . Oh, and Gravity Rush too. And don’t get me started about Angel Cop . I...

So what's new with Bounty Arms ? Nothing major, as you might expect when it comes to a PlayStation action game canceled back in 1995. Ho...

Lately I've grown interested in football games of the NES era, specifically those developed in Japan. At that point football (that'd...

When it came to unreleased video games, Clockwork Aquario was a relentless, blatant, and downright sadistic tease. It went through arcade l...

It’s a good time to be a fan of Trouble Shooter . Or Battle Mania . Or whatever you might call the two comedic Sega Genesis shooters that pu...

Many canceled NES games exist only on paper, whether it’s a sheaf of old design documents, a press release, a magazine’s rumors section, or ...

Nintendo Power had a fascinating look in its early years. It was, of course, a promotional sheaf for all things Nintendo, but the magazine’s...

No video game ever made me cry. Nope, not one. Many games get to me in some way, because I’m a big, sappy, hopeless mark when it comes to fu...

You know what’s a good website? The Cutting Room Floor. It’s all about stuff hidden in video games: unused characters, deleted scenes, alter...

One good thing about liking Street Fighter is the knowledge that you can ignore just about every movie and TV series it inspires. After all...

I prefer Lunar II: Eternal Blue to the original Lunar: The Silver Star . I could attribute this to playing Eternal Blue first, which made T...

There’s a lot that I like about Vice: Project Doom , a late NES action-platformer from Aicom and American Sammy. I like that it mixes its si...

Is Bio Force Ape the most popular NES game never released? I'd say so. It drifted into obscurity after Seta canceled it in 1991, yet th...

Bounty Arms shouldn’t be anything special. It’s a PlayStation action title from Data West, an obscure software publisher that rarely made a...

What's this? Fuck yes. More soon.

I recently rewrote my Bounty Arms article , partly to clear up errors and partly because I can’t forget about the game. There are scores of...

Prototypes might be my favorite video game subculture. In this edifying realm, fans with too much free time root through early builds and p...

Ah, the Lunar games. Perhaps they're now archaic, but the first and best two introduced many a sheltered American kid to the ways of Ja...

I recently found not one, but two things that combine my overbearing fondness for Treasure games with my love of stupidly obscure trivia. Fr...

I'm playing The Red Star demo. I still live in Ohio. And Acclaim is still in business. It impresses me. I'm aware of the nic...