You rented Shadowgate expecting another action game, because in 1989 that’s what an NES cartridge was supposed to be. Ten minutes in, your torch burned
Stephan Scoggins packed a Game Boy for Operation Desert Storm the same way half of America did in 1990: as a way to kill downtime.
You rent Castlevania III from the video store on a Friday night, still sore from getting wrecked by Simon’s Quest a year earlier. The cartridge
There was a specific feeling that came with the Konami logo flashing on a rental cartridge’s title screen in the late 1980s. It wasn’t a
Pull an NES cartridge library out of a closet and Crystalis usually turns up somewhere in the middle, wedged between a Contra and a Double
Pull a graded NES game out of its case and you’ll find one big number on the label. Most buyers stop reading right there. That’s
December 1987. You’re standing in front of a wall of NES boxes, and one of them has a guy on the cover who looks like
Ask two NES collectors which Mega Man game is the real classic and you’ll get two different answers, both delivered like they’re obvious. One camp
Picture a theater in the summer of 1989. The lights are down for The Wizard, a mostly forgettable road-trip movie about a kid who wants
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