Rent a Contra sequel in the spring of 1990 and you’d notice the box said something different than you expected. Not Super Contra, the name
Rent a copy of The Goonies II from the video store in 1987 and you’d come home expecting a straightforward licensed cash-in. There was never
Before Contra’s title screen even faded in, your fingers already knew what to do. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start.
Ask anyone who owned an NES in 1988 what game turned polite living rooms into actual brawls, and there’s a good chance they say Blades
Two controllers, one console, and a screen that filled with bullets faster than either of you could track. That was Life Force on a good
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