Presented by Dsheinem New to Together Retro? Don’t worry; everyone makes mistakes. You can get an idea about what we’re doing with our time here. For this month’s Together Retro, we’ll be playing 1991’s premiere motorcycle combat game: EA’s Road Rash. Overview The basic gameplay of Road Rash involves winning races over long stretches of highway […]
Presented by Flake New to Together Retro? Don’t worry; everyone makes mistakes. You can get an idea about what we’re doing with our time here. Quick question: which Street Fighter game defines the series? Were I a betting gamer, I’d wager that the words “Street Fighter II” rolled off your lips…in addition to some […]
Presented by Ghegs The Sony PlayStation was released in Japan on December 1994 and the 32-bit system brought with it much greater processing power than the previous console generation’s Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis could offer. With this, many genres could make the leap from 2D sprite-based games into 3D graphics and environment, better reflecting […]
Fantastic Dizzy is one of several games in the Dizzy series and the only one released outside Europe. Despite the similar sounding title it is not to be confused with Fantasy World Dizzy, the third game in the series with similar gameplay (Fantasy World Dizzy has been ironically referred to as the “best game of […]
Regulars of the Racketboy site will know that I get quite interested in those hard-to-find games. Â And while collector’s box sets are rather common in today’s industry, they were rather uncommon in the 1990’s. Â Because of this, it’s hard to find solid documentation on some of them. Â Â Fortunately, these rare sets sometimes end […]
Presented by Dsheinem New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club It would be fair to say that Half-Life is one of the most important games in all of gaming history. Not only did it popularize and innovate the story-driven First Person Shooter, but it also thrust Valve into the spotlight as a […]
presented by Brickiemart, Adam Sarson, BulletMagnet, and Racketboy Be sure to check out similar guides in our Genre Guide Collection Even though I have been a Sega Genesis fan from the beginning, I didn’t quite realize how many Shooters the console had in its library until I saw this guide taking shape. Â I always […]
Presented by ExedExes New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Overview Wing Commander is the first game in the Wing Commander series of science fiction space simulation games, released on September 26, 1990 for the PC. It was designed and directed by Chris Roberts and produced by Roberts and a pre-System Shock/Deus […]
See the other entries in the Retro Gaming 101 Series The RetroGaming 101 series is aimed at gamers who are just starting out in the classic gaming scene or are curious about an older console that they don’t know much about yet. Those of you that are especially knowledgeable about the featured console, I encourage […]
presented by Ivo. New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club What made it special Extremely solid gameplay that is great fun, easy to learn, hard to master – all that combined with co-op gameplay and high production values (cute graphics and catchy music that arguably hold up quite well after more than […]
See our other great Shmup Guides & the rest of our Hidden Gems Series Not that most of you really need to hear me say this, but the classic scrolling shoot-em-up (or “shmupâ€) has become something of a rarity in and of itself these days. With so few commercial releases on the horizon, the tiniest […]
Originally written in 2007 / Updated in 2012 When the average gamer sees someone who claims to be a retro gamer, they tend to think of them as someone who is a classic gaming elitist that shuns anything new and flashy. They may also think that classic gamers are stuck wearing “rose-colored glassesâ€, remembering games […]
Presented by ExedExes New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club When you think of classic puzzle games, it’s easy to remember notable games like Tetris, Puyo Puyo, and maybe a few others. But for this months Together Retro, let’s take a look at one you may not be familiar with – Panel […]
If you check out our Rare and Valuable Games for the Atari 2600 guide,  you’ll see that Atlantis II ranks quite high on the list. The number of these cartridges out in the wild is up for debate (although, you can see the Atlantis cartridges on eBay currently). Some think the safe number is “under […]
Note: this guide is an archived version from 2012. Â See here for the most current Game Boy Guide Since this guide was originally published in 2008, we have seen quite an increase in values for boxed and sealed games. Â Â So I have updated and expanded this list, but also took out the Game Boy […]
