I recently had my Sega Saturn modded. I’m surprised I didn’t do it back in 1998, when anyone with a Saturn was soldering a switch into the c...

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...

The mid-1990s weren't such a bad time to watch anime. Japanese cartoons didn’t fill an aisle at Best Buy or clog all corners of the Inte...

The Sega Genesis library boasts an estimated 47,000,000 shooters, and Compile’s M.U.S.H.A. is the best of them. It’s visually stunning even...

Irem and Tamtex’s Metal Storm is an often under-appreciated marvel from the NES era. It’s a solidly designed mecha-shooter at its base leve...

There’s a special procedure to follow whenever I mention Darkstalkers . First I have to explain that the series started out as Capcom’s seco...

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...

Sony’s Demo Demo PlayStation series is less than a footnote in the system’s history. They’re very similar to the Play Play demo discs that...

[Note: this entry charts a manga author's descent into creepy porn, so it contains images that may offend some workplaces.] Few author...

Cyberbots isn’t my favorite fighting game, but it’s my favorite obscure one. It’s a mid-1990s experiment by Capcom’s talented designers, pa...

In my days at Anime Insider, the magazine occasionally got letters from people trying to identify Japanese cartoons they’d seen long ago. Mo...

[This begins a semi-regular feature that examines anime available in North America only through old VHS releases. The first installment look...

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...

It’s Dreamcast Day, when Sega fans everywhere look back fondly on the last time their favorite company had the remotest chance for widesprea...

Last week saw a proud moment: a group of fans released a translation patch for the PlayStation version of Policenauts . Many thought that t...

[This was originally intended as a review of The Wings of Honneamise , but it turned into a diatribe about the film’s most controversial sce...

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 ...