[Might Have Been tracks the failures of promising games, characters, and companies. This installment looks at World Beach Volley , released ...

I did not own Lufia and the Fortress of Doom as a kid, but my cousins did. Each summer they’d bring it along when the family gathered at gr...

The anime industry was in chaos around 2007.  American publishers were ailing after years of releasing too many mediocre series via outdated...

Compile’s Aleste series stayed silent for much too long. It includes some of the best shooters ever made, but it drifted away in the 1990s t...

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...