Presented by Dsheniem New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club For this spooky October installment of Together Retro, we are going to provide you with a classic “drive-in double bill†of horror-tinged classic games. Both should provide you with ample chills and thrills to last all month, and both are worth playing […]
Presented by Gamerforlife See the rest of our Hidden Gems Series The beat ’em up genre flourished during the late eighties and into the nineties. In addition to seeing a constant flow of quarters in the arcades, they would also develop a strong presence on consoles with popular titles like Streets of Rage 2. The […]
Presented by Flake New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club The Together Retro crew spends a lot of time plucking away at the overlooked and forgotten classics. At first glance, Mario Bros. 2 might seem like an odd choice for the gang but as a quirky piece of gaming history that has […]
Presented by Adam Sarson See our other Genre Guides The Nintendo 64 is known for its high quality games library, and the racing genre certainly played a major role in that. With many different subgenres of racing available, gamers have a plethora of options to get their racing fix on the Nintendo 64. Let’s take […]
Presented by the MegaRetroGeek New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Of any series that isn’t a franchise of one of the big console makers, Bomberman is one of the most familiar series in all of retro gaming.   The pinnacle of the series, Bomberman 94′ on the PC Engine has been renowned […]
Presented by Ack See the other entries in the Retro Gaming 101 Series In 1983, things were going pretty well for Casio. It was the year they would release the first of their G-Shock line of wristwatches, the DW-5000. The company’s popular line of electronic keyboards, the Casiotone, was seeing new innovation with built-in cartridge […]
Presented by TekToro This Guide is part of the Defining Games Series The 3DO was an interesing chapter in console gaming history. Â It was not only an attempt at creating a platform-to-rule them all in the gaming industry, but it was yet another player in the middle crowded console war. (Learn more in 3DO […]
For my next revision to the Cheapest Games series, I wanted to revisit the Sega CD (the last revision was in 2007, so it was very due for an update). While they haven’t been as drastic of an increase in price as the Sega Saturn games, it is getting harder to find low prices on […]
A few months ago, I made by first visit to Colorado. (Lovely state, by the way!) As usual when we are visiting a new area, my wife and I often do a little research to see if there are any interesting gaming locations in the area. We found an indie game store, but I wasn’t […]
Presented by Ivo & Fastbilly1 New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club This month’s Together retro title is Command & Conquer (C&C), from developer Westwood Studios which was responsible for a lot of quality classic games (such as the Eye of the Beholder series). They basically created the genre of Real Time […]
Note from racketboy: Even though sports games are the first to end up in eternal bargain bins once they are more than a year old, they do still hold some value to retro gamers that can appreciate the game mechanics these games hold. Even though the rosters are well out of date and the simulations […]
Presented by Dsheinem New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club For many gamers, Wolfenstein 3D is considered the game that launched the most popular genre of the last twenty years: the first person shooter. And while it can’t technically boast being the first ever FPS, Wolfenstein 3D remains one of the best […]
Presented by BulletMagnet See more of our Shmups Guides (including our Beginner’s Guide to Shmups) and other entries in our Defining Games Series Even in an era dominated by high-end 3-D graphics, sprawling environments, and hundred-hour quests, if you mention the phrase “video game†to a person one of the first images likely to enter his […]
Presented by Alienjesus See the other entries in the Retro Gaming 101 Series When you think of Nintendo handhelds, chances are you think of the Game Boy, which defined portable gaming for the masses. Or maybe you think of one of its follow ups, the Game Boy Color, or the Game Boy Advance. Maybe it’s […]
I may not be a Neo-Geo expert, but I’ve ran this site long enough to know that there’s a number of SNK fans that aren’t keen on Dion Dakis. The co-founder of NeoGeoFreak pushed the buttons of a lot of American Neo-Geo collectors with his online antics and personality. Last summer I had a trip […]
