It’s very hard to find an NES game with a decent story—or any story at all, for that matter. Many of them have premises, introductions, moti...

[Might Have Been tracks the failures of promising games, characters, and companies. This installment looks at Nuts & Milk, released for ...

[Tape Test covers notable anime available in North America only through old VHS releases. This installment looks at Twilight of the Cockroac...

I haven’t done much with Tape Test. With this week’s installment, I’ve put up only three entries in as many years. There’s a reason for that...

I haven't collected games in a while. I was into it thick and stupid for a few years when I lived in Ohio, because that's how your e...

Captain Commando was a veritable chameleon among game mascots. As mentioned in a recent feature at 1up.com , the Capcom icon started off as ...

Wonder Boy in Monster Land may have a title both generic and silly, but it’s an important game in the history of Westone and their biggest ...

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...

Game manuals are a dying breed. As the industry shifts toward online distribution and cheap packaging, manuals grow thinner and less informa...

One must be even-handed when discussing Working Designs. One may say that the small software house, co-founded and led by Victor Ireland, di...

Remember t.A.T.u., the Russian pop duo that bolstered their standard-issue songs with feigned lesbian overtones? Well, they officially broke...

Metal Slug 3 barely qualifies as an unreleased game. It first arrived on the Neo Geo in 2000, and it was since ported to the PlayStation 2,...

[Might Have Been tracks the failures of promising games, characters, and companies. It ran at GameSetWatch several years ago, and I’ve revi...

Politicians often take on video games, but they usually stick to the big and controversial ones—the Night Traps and Mortal Kombats of thei...

Studio Gonzo is known for several things: making lots of anime series, letting those series disintegrate by the halfway mark, and epitomizin...

The Sega-Nintendo War of the early 1990s may go down in history as yet another small-scale market squabble, but it left an impression. Uncou...

Comics based on video games usually stumble for two reasons. Most games have threadbare, cliche stories to start with, and their comic versi...

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...

Konami’s original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game was a remarkable sight back in 1990. It’s competent as side-scrolling brawlers go...

The history of “professional gamers” is long and frequently hilarious, stretching from the days of high-scoring arcade champions up through ...