Everyone knows the scene even if they’ve never touched a controller: a giant ape hauls a woman up a tangle of girders while a mustached
Dave Miller’s girlfriend Sandy just vanished into a crumbling mansion on the edge of town. The man holding her isn’t evil, exactly. Dr. Fred’s mind
You rented this one because of the cover, not the comic. A chrome surfer riding a board through space looked cool enough on the shelf
Picture an NES game where the hero can barely fight back. Where your character can’t jump over most obstacles. Where getting hit doesn’t kill you
Picture this: you just beat Ninja Gaiden II at a friend’s house, spent a solid month bragging about it, and then Tecmo drops episode three
You rented it expecting a slasher movie you could control. Blockbuster had the box right there at eye level, Jason’s hockey mask staring out at
You probably beat Bubble Bobble by yourself at some point in 1989, mashed the controller through level 100, watched the credits roll, and figured that
Picture a kid in 1987, renting a cartridge off the strength of a cool-looking disc weapon on the box, expecting a quick arcade-style romp. Instead
Somewhere in a lot of old NES collections sits a cartridge almost nobody remembers, and yet a piece of it is still floating around pop
Pop Journey to Silius into an NES and nothing on the box hints that this one started life as a Terminator game. No chrome skull,