Well, this wasn’t the best year for Kid Fenris Dot Com. Besides the same obvious reasons that 2020 sucked for so many people, the site’s hos...

Last month I discussed and possibly even lionized Clockwork Aquario , the adorable arcade action game resurrected over two decades after We...

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

I always like unearthing obscure things here. I don’t think I’m trying to show off to anyone; that would require this site to have readers. ...

Valkyrie Profile sequels have terrible luck. Consider Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria , an inventive RPG promptly overshadowed by bigger RPG na...

One truly lost element of the game industry is the fascinating divide between arcade titles and their console descendants. Prior to the m...

The recently landed Final Fantasy VII Remake is bold in its lack of scope. Rather than reimagining the whole of the original Final Fantasy ...

Who was your first video-game crush? It’s okay to admit that you had one. The self-loathing nerd mindset, popular online some fifteen years ...

I’ve recently come to appreciate casino video games. For a long time I considered them routine, disposable pieces of a game system’s librar...

Just about anything could become a game on the Nintendo Entertainment System. By the late 1980s the NES dominated America's console mark...

It’s tradition to spend December summing up your favorite releases of the year, and that leaves me in a bind. This was a very busy year for ...

I’ve waited over twenty years to properly play Trials of Mana . I probably shouldn’t have. The Japanese version, Seiken Densetsu 3 , came ou...

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is famous for two things. It has the world's largest air force museum, and it has Hangar 18, the now-ord...

Square Enix’s recently localized Collection of Mana is notable on several fronts. It’s a solid if unadorned presentation of the first three...

Time isn’t the enemy it once was in video games. Modern titles might rank and penalize players based on how long it takes to clear a stage, ...

I was all set to discuss how I dislike the fact that many intriguing modern games merely echo older ones. A lot of my most-wanted list is fi...

Many worlds collided in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game for the NES. It saw the Turtles at the height of their popularity ...

If you hang around certain people long enough, you’ll hear them say that fighting games aren’t about storylines. Oh, they have plots and cha...

Let’s take yet another look at Bounty Arms . We here at the Bounty Arms Preservation Society (tax-exempt status pending) are dedicated to re...

I’m pretty sure that Super Baseball 2020 is my favorite sports game. That’s probably because I’m not really into sports games on the whole. ...