Everyone knows the scene even if they’ve never touched a controller: a giant ape hauls a woman up a tangle of girders while a mustached
You plugged a Game Boy cartridge into a gray plastic shell shaped like a Super Nintendo cartridge, slid that into the SNES, and flipped the
Dave Miller’s girlfriend Sandy just vanished into a crumbling mansion on the edge of town. The man holding her isn’t evil, exactly. Dr. Fred’s mind
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
Every kid who got a movie or cartoon game under the tree in the early ’90s remembers the sinking feeling of booting it up and