By October 1990, NES owners shopping for a puzzle game had exactly two choices, and Nintendo had made both of them. Tetris landed on the
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
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.
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
Ask two different collectors which NES game actually earned its reputation for being brutal, and you’ll get two different answers before you finish the question.
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
Friday afternoon, you’d ride your bike to the video store, hand over a few dollars, and walk out with a cartridge you had exactly three
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
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