What secrets CDs may hold…

The Sega Saturn was my first CD-based console, and I remember being really intrigued by the format.  Sure, I was familiar with CDs, but I thought it was really cool that I could take these games, which were meant to be played on a console, and explore them in a number of other devices that […]

Impressions: Populous, Killing Time, Landstalker

I mentioned on the About page that I’m something of a lazy gamer.  Or, at the very least, I’m not a very dedicated gamer.  When I was younger, I could dedicate myself to a single game for hours on end, day after day.  I just don’t have the attention span for that anymore.  I think […]

Ninja Spirit (TurboGrafx-16)

As your footsteps fall silently upon the floorboards of the ruined temple at which you were born and raised, you barely have time to contemplate the untimely and unjust death of your father and the vengeance which you have sworn to obtain.  With swiftness and deftness that can only come with a lifetime of training, you dispatch […]

Sitegeist (7/23/07)

Well, I’m back from my camping trip/mini-vacation, so that means I’m behind on my gameplaying.  I also came home to discover that my laptop is dead.  Hooray!  So, that means I’m stuck on my old Pentium III desktop, circa June 2000.  What’s all this mean for you guys?  It means you get a half-assed update tonight!  Hooray!  I’ve had […]

RetroMacro (7/18/07)

I’m heading out tomorrow for a long weekend of camping and celebrating my birthday (25 on the 20th… Can I start complaining about feeling old yet?), so while I’m out enjoying nature, I’ll leave you with a new RetroMacro to ponder.
If you’re not the observant type, this is a power button. (Duh.) But the power button […]

Time Capsule: The NES Network

Back when I subscribed to gaming magazines, I always liked to hold onto them and look through them a few years later.  It was always fun to read the old articles in a new light with the knowledge of what came true and what didn’t.  It seems I’m not the only one with that interest, […]

Virtua Cop (Sega Saturn)

Light gun games have something of a linear history.  Virtua Cop may have shaken up the genre by bringing into the 3D era, but its gameplay is not nearly as revolutionary as its graphics were.  In fact, you can trace the gameplay straight back to one of the earliest NES games — Hogan’s Alley.  In Hogan’s Alley, […]

EA not totally put-off by 3DO experience

It’s not often that the 3DO gets any mention in the modern gaming environment.  While other older platforms like the NES, SNES, Genesis, and TurboGrafx-16 are seeing new life with services like XBLA and the Wii Virtual Console, the 3DO is pretty much dead and forgotten to modern console owners.  But, it’s interesting to see […]

RetroTube: Best game commercial ever?

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re Nintendo and you’ve just wrapped up development on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the SNES.  Now it’s time to sell the game to the public — a game that would go on to be considered by many as the greatest game of all time.  How do […]

Latest Haul: Midway Arcade Treasures

Alright, I have a confession to make.  Maybe the “Wii Virtual Console” category gave it away already, but I do own and play systems that are more modern than the Saturn.  [*gasp*]  The retro gaming kick that I’ve been on is something that started several months ago — probably around when I got a Neo-Geo CDZ.  […]

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