Category: Retro Gaming News
Top 10 – Retro Platformers
Often considered a quintessential video game genre, platformers are actually a relatively recent invention – at least in the span of video game history. Many...
A Brief History of: Namco
The golden age of Japanese arcades wouldn’t be the same without one big name: Namco. Specifically, it wouldn’t be the same without an IP dreamt up by Namco’s...
Arcade Hall of Fame: Taiko no Tatsujin
Though the rhythm genre has fallen somewhat from its peak in the mid-2000s in the West, it has never died back in its home country of Japan where it enjoys a robust life...
A Brief History of: Capcom
The house that brought us Mega Man, Street Fighter, and Resident Evil, among others, Capcom is a relatively young company in the grand scheme of things but has had an...
Arcade of Hall of Fame: Pong
When people consider the founding fathers of video games, one title cannot help but make it on the list, and that is Pong. A virtual table tennis game that first debuted...
Friday The 13th (NES) – Think You Can Beat It?!
If we can thank 1980s American cinema for one thing it would be the popularization of the slasher horror flick. Films like Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Friday...
5 Things You Didn’t Know About: Nintendo
The makers of some of the world’s most iconic titles, Nintendo’s history is longer than the video game industry itself. Makers of the Switch, Wii, SNES, and NES,...
Top 10 Retro First Person Shooters
Probably the single most dominant gaming format for most triple-A titles today, first-person shooters stormed the video games industry when they were popularised by a...
Bonanza Bros – CO-OP Classics
Before Sega began challenging Nintendo for home console dominance the company was still very much an arcade titan. But it wasn’t just a prominent name in the arcades...
Retro Highlights of 2018
From the Virtual Console on the Wii to the myriad of mini console remakes hitting the shelves, console manufacturers and gamers can’t get enough of the past. Of...
5 Remasters We’d Like To See in 2019!
Gamers are a nostalgic crowd. And nothing proves that better than the number of remakes out on the market in any given year. But these titles aren’t just coming out...
Top 5 Times Santa Appeared in Video Games
It’s almost that time of the year again, when Santa shows up and brings people everything on their video game wishlist. No stranger to video games, Santa has actually...
Arcade Hall of Fame: Mario Bros (Arcade)
Every story has a beginning. But Mario’s origins are a little humbler than you might expect. And, no, we’re not talking about Donkey Kong. We’re talking about the...
A Brief History Of: The Nintendo DS
The empire built upon portables and home consoles, Nintendo today is combining both wings of its house into one gigantic behemoth of a system called the Switch. But,...
Jak II (PS2) – Think You Can Beat It?!
Jak II combines so many different genres of gaming, and does so many of them well, that it really resists classification. First, it is an open-world, third-person...
Top 10 Underrated Retro Racing Games
Easily among the oldest genres of video games out there, racing games are compelling because they are both immediately understandable and accessible. Sure, some titles...
Quake III Arena – Think You Can Beat It?
The Quake series always had a bit of an identity crisis. Id Software bickered like children on whether the first game should be a fantasy game or a sci-fi shooter,...
5 Things You Didn’t Know About: Princess Peach
You might know her as Princess Toadstool, but she likes to be called Peach today. And that’s the subject of today’s article: The mysterious life of Princess Peach....
