Presented by Flake, Opethfan, Beak, and Racketboy Check out other Guides in the Retro Gaming 101 Series After Sony helped finish off Sega’s career in the hardware business, Nintendo knew it needed to come up with some solid hardware to follow up the N64 (and finally make the jump into optical media).  The Gamecube hardware […]
For the last year or so, the Racketboy writing team and I have been working on building a nice collection of genre-specific guides to compliment our platform-specific entries.  However, up until now, it was a challenge to find them all in our archives.  However, I finally have a nice page dedicated to our Genre Guide Collection. […]
Presented by fastbilly1 New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Imagine for a minute it is 1995. Thats right: Arnold is a robot and not a politician, some sort of super cd is announced called DVD, OJ is found not guilty, and the console wars are very strong. There are consoles from […]
Presented by BulletMagnet Note from racketboy: Combining to popularity of our Genre 101 series (see Survival Horror 101, Beatem-ups 101, Platformers 101, and Fighters 101) and the expert shmup writing of BulletMagnet (see his guides to shmups for the Playstation, Saturn, and PS2 and the Games That Defined the Shmup Genre) this guide is one of most epic posts ever.  I hope you enjoy […]
You might remember my interview and store tour with Jason from Trade N Games (based in St. Louis, MO area) (See our interview here). Well anyway, I wanted to share an extra video segment from that day where he shared his thoughts on sealed games and how you can spot fake sealed games in the […]
Presented by Tyler, lisalove1, Czernobog, and Racketboy There were many casualties to Nintendo’s dominance in the portable gaming market over the past couple of decades. While it may not have been as commercially successful as the likes of the Sega Game Gear or the Playstation Portable, SNK’s Neo Geo Pocket handhelds still have quite a […]
Presented by Noiseredux (with Brickiemart and Racketboy) Although the Game Boy Advance is not generally remembered for its library of shooters, it was the first portable gaming system powerful enough to recreate the classing shoot-em-ups of the 16-bit era. As such it saw ports and variations of many of the 16-bit staples: Gradius, Darius, R-Type — […]
Presented by fastbilly1 New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club What do a spaceship, a paper airplane, giant space snakes, Maoi, and options, have in common? If you guessed the Gradius series, well you might be a gamer. If you guessed something else, please post it below. Thats right boys and girls […]
For my next revision to the Cheapest Games series , we’ll take a new look at the original Xbox.  While a handful of these games might have follow-ups on the 360, I think you’ll find that the majority of these games are still quite relevant today and are still worth looking into — especially for their […]
Presented by  Dylan, Christoph, and Racketboy 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. The Neo Geo family of hardware began with the Neo Geo MVS (or Multi Video System) released […]
Zoop is kind of a hard one to classify. It is an arcade puzzle game in the vein of Taito’s Plotting that was released on most every console at the time (4th generation). Most gamers have heard of the title but have not played it because it was released in 1995. It is one of […]
Presented by Dylan, Daito_Kid, Beak and Racketboy SNK’s Neo-Geo platform is a vintage marvel that many of us have never had the priveledge of owning in our homes. For those of us that grew up in the early 90s, it was the console that only the really rich kids had (and I didn’t know any).  […]
Presented by CRTGAMER, Ziggy587 & Ack This article is based upon CRTGAMER’s guide on the Racketboy forums indicating how to identify copies of Gyromite for the NES which house an adapter to play Famicom games on the US NES. Special thanks to CRTGAMER and Ziggy587. Once in a while the inside of the Gyromite game […]
Presented by noiseredux Note from racketboy: It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a platform-specific entry in the Defining Games series, but we haven’t forgot about the entries we still need to flesh out. BTW, if you want to dig into the GBA library further, check out the GBA Hidden Gems The Game Boy […]
For those of you that are old-school Sega Junkies (especially fans of the Dreamcast), you may have heard of Sega’s simulation adventure that puts you in control of the (at the time) beloved hardware and software maker. Â Segagaga was filled with lots of fanboy humor and put you on a mission to beat Sega’s […]
