I usually can tell right away when I’ll like a game. It may take a little while to fully seep into place, but even then there's somethin...

I discussed my fascination with rental stickers a while ago, and I haven’t let go of it. As physical media grows scarcer and the last remain...

Cotton Fantasy arrived this month. It’s a cute, colorful, charming little shooter in all respects, and I said as much in my full review . I...

A woman knocked on our door one summer evening in 1992. She was circulating a petition against the planned construction of a huge arcade and...

Gosh, I really wish someone would make another Valkyrie Profile game. It's been over a year since Valkyrie Anatomia shut down, and tha...

So what's new with Bounty Arms ? Nothing major, as you might expect when it comes to a PlayStation action game canceled back in 1995. Ho...

Lately I've grown interested in football games of the NES era, specifically those developed in Japan. At that point football (that'd...

Clockwork Aquario is finally out. It's been a long wait, and I'm not just talking about the 28 years since the game went through so...

Fuga: Melodies of Steel belongs to the endangered species of middleweight video games. Neither a lumbering blockbuster nor a small-scale in...

Regular visitors to this site might have noticed certain subtle hints that I like the Gravity Rush games. How much do I like them? Well, I ...

My previous entry sunk deep into the history of Dino Land , a middleweight pinball-video game from Telenet Japan and Wolfteam. While it ha...

Telenet Japan has a good reputation if you know where to look. Aided by developer Wolfteam and its American publishing arm Renovation, Telen...

The second half of Unsung Game Creators’ Takeru feature is now up! While the first part was modestly hopeful in chronicling the developer’s ...

Metal Warriors walked a difficult path. Fresh off the cult favorite Zombies Ate My Neighbors , developers Dean Sharpe and Mike Ebert conceiv...

The history of Sega mascots is rather short for a company with such a voluminous catalog. Sega’s first attempts at company spokes-things app...

  If anyone tells you that story doesn’t matter to a video game, you’ll find the perfect counterargument in an NES side-scroller called Tota...

[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...