Somewhere in a box of forgotten Game Boy carts, there’s a decent chance one of them has a potato on the label, dodging a butcher
Picture flipping past Duck Hunt and Mega Man 2 on a toy store shelf in 1989 and landing on a cartridge that tells your fortune.
Picture flipping open the March 1991 issue of Nintendo Power. The cover is a mech standing upside down on a ceiling, guns blazing, with a
You rented it because the box art looked insane. A guy with chrome fists the size of cinder blocks, standing in front of an explosion,
Somewhere in a flea-market bin, under three copies of Track & Field and a loose Duck Hunt cartridge, there’s a box with two ninjas on
Firebrand was never supposed to be a star. In the original Ghosts ‘n Goblins, he’s a tiny red gargoyle who swoops down at Arthur’s head
When he looked up, he saw three gigantic yellow bodies looming over him. That is the actual opening line of Cheetahmen II, and somehow it’s
Every kid who grew up renting NES games remembers scanning the rental shelf for something the neighborhood hadn’t already beaten. Tucked between recognizable names, one
A kid pulls a cartridge out of a Blockbuster case in December 1989 and the box art alone raises questions: a teenage boy standing next
You rented Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters off the Game Boy shelf expecting a shrunken, gray-and-green rerun of the NES game you already knew