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
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,
Firebrand was never supposed to be a star. In the original Ghosts ‘n Goblins, he’s a tiny red gargoyle who swoops down at Arthur’s head
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
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