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
Ask anyone who grew up with a console in the early 80s what happened to Atari and you’ll get the same answer: they buried it.
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
Picture two kids unwrapping NES cartridges in the same month of 1987, a few towns apart. One drops into a cave with no map, no
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,
You finally beat the first Ninja Gaiden. You watched the ending, you earned the bragging rights, and you figured Ryu Hayabusa’s story was over. Then
Halloween always arrived early on the NES. Somewhere around the first week of October, a kid who’d normally beg to play Mario Bros. would dig
You find it on the shelf in early 1994, tucked between the SNES titles that are starting to take over the end caps. Same blue
Somebody always finds the shoebox in the attic. Inside is a loose NES cartridge, decades of dust ground into the label, contacts gone green at
By December 1992, you knew exactly what you were getting into. Dr. Wily was behind it. Eight stages waited in whatever order you wanted to