I watched a bit of Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross the other day. In the heyday of 1980s space-opera anime, it became the middle act...

You know what I like about Duck Tales for the NES? When Uncle Scrooge ducks, his hat stays in the air for a split second before descending ...

Angel Cop is rightly considered a classic of terrible anime. Released in six parts from 1989 to 1994, it perfectly embodies the violent eth...

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years arrived on Wiiware last week. Some have praised it, and others have complained about paying roughly a dol...

The Legendary Axe II is strange among action-game sequels. While the first The Legendary Axe is a brightly colored exercise in dull cliché...

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

It's time for me to talk about Anime Insider, a little magazine that shut down this past Thursday. I was an associate editor at Anime...

It’s easy to overlook Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon . Toei really tried to make this 1966 film, known in Japan as Gulliver’s Space Jour...

I recently started playing the Game Boy Advance version of Final Fantasy V . Since I’m not in the mood for writing long pieces about the gam...

We cannot help but notice that many older anime fans have grown cynical about the industry that once so enchanted them. “Anime sucks now,” t...

So long, Seta . And may flights of Bio Force Apes roar thee to thy rest. You too, Jaleco . Thanks for all the box art .

I’m still enjoying Tactics Ogre . By all standards of logic, I shouldn’t. It’s a tremendously dated game compared to its modern strategy-RPG...

A lot of kids discovered anime in the 1990s, but I was an unusual case. I wasn’t introduced to it by Sailor Moon or Ronin Warriors or the...

I recently decided to play through Tactics Ogre , that 16-bit strategy-RPG full of grids and medieval-fantasy politics and chipper little ch...

Here’s the important thing about The Sky Crawlers : among Mamoru Oshii’s movies, it sets a new record for going from zero to basset houn...

I don’t plan on regularly extolling my column at Anime News Network, but last week’s edition may be of greater interest than usual, as it f...

When Valkyrie Profile: The Accused One was first announced for the DS, I took issue with the official illustration that showed Lenneth, her...

Square Enix's The Last Remnant arrives this week, and the anticipation for it is guarded at best. It's an ambitious game in design ...

As Valkyrie Profile: The Accused One 's slightly delayed October release approaches, let's all take a look at the work of Yoh (a.k.a...

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...