I admit that I’m lazy when it comes to investigating games. I'm willing to poke through old magazines in search of screenshots that diff...

We’ll remember the 1980s as a time of fanciful excess in North America and Japan, no matter how meretricious that may be. Never mind the Col...

I just don't think that kids today know enough about Miclus. I'm sure they're familiar with video-game mascots like Mario, Sonic...

What’s the anime-manga industry up to these days? Monster girls, from the look of it. Mike Toole recently wrote an Anime News Network articl...

El Viento is among my favorite weird games, perhaps because it isn't all that weird. Compared to Katamari Damacy or Cho-Aniki or even ...

A lot of us had childhood arcades, and most of us saw them change. If you’re my age, you might’ve watched a gallery of varied offerings, Fin...

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...

The Mega Man Legacy Collection is not the first time Capcom reissued and repackaged the initial six Mega Man titles, but it might be the m...

I reviewed Lost Dimension earlier this month, and it was a tough game to judge. It has novel ideas and flows pretty well, but it just does...

I realize that I let Rygarfield fall behind schedule, as I've made only two strips in fifteen months. I’m not worried, though. All of ...

The first two Lunar games remain cases of RPG clichés done unimpeachably right. They button up every little part of the genre that grew old ...

Nintendo’s Amiibo figures drive people mad. You might not suspect that from a glance at the Amiibo displays in Target or Toys R Us, where pl...

Not so long ago, I thought about visiting Japan once more. That idea fizzled due to a lack of time and money, but in the aftermath I decided...

Sony’s Greatest Hits line is straightforward and mostly beneficial: publishers shamelessly reissue their games, and any interested holdouts ...

No grade school class is complete without one kid fascinated by the paranormal. I did my best to fill that role. I read books on UFOs, the...

I discussed the Demo Demo PlayStation series here before, partly because it has the only publicly released bit of Bounty Arms and partly bec...

As you know, I don’t update very often. I’d like to have new stuff at least once a week, but the uncomfortable truth is that this website is...

I liked watching football more than any other sport when I was a kid. Part of that came from the dynamism of play, how it was possible for e...

Did everyone have a good Christmas? I certainly did, and that was partly because of a wonderful present from a friend who prefers to be know...

I suspect that Tricky Kick wanted to be obscure even by the standards of TurboGrafx-16 games. It presented a deliberately confusing front b...