I've always considered retro to be a style classification rather than an age classification. Specifically it's the style of being out of style. Encouraging skill development through satisfying rewards and harsh punishments is a type of game design that is out of style, and thus any game that operate...

Technically a retro game would be a new game that feels like an old game. Ya know, Shovel Knight. Hotline Miami. Dark Souls.

But technicalities are for assholes.

Is there such a thing as retro food if we're going with this buffet thing? Food that looks old but tastes fresh? is that a thing?

I'm in the process of selling almost everything that isn't PS2, PS3, PS4, Vita, Dreamcast, Saturn, Neo Geo or Neo Geo Pocket, and that's mainly because those are the few systems I have that I want that there aren't really convenient EverDrive-like solutions to. If I can ever manage to get the SD car...

The start of a few anime-based game reviews.

Dirty Pair (Famicom)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ymosNz4AY

Most the Sam Sho games before V are really cheap. KOF games outside of 98, 02 and 03 are pretty cheap. 99 especially seems to be as common as grass. World Heroes 2 is well loved and cheap too. If you want the absolute best: KOF'98 Last Blade 2 Waku Waku 7 Garou: MOTW Samurai Shodown II Samurai Shodo...

I've tried to avoid getting into PC-Engine/TG-16 because I'm already blowing what little money I do have on completing my Saturn collection as well as getting more arcade machines/boards... ... but I know Sapphire would be at the top of my list, I played that and it was a ton of fun. I'd also have t...

I'll have full thoughts on it as soon as I get a chance to record, but basically the game has a chronic condition of not telling anything. Too late or too soon? Don't know. Did I stretch too far or not far enough? Don't know. As much problems I have with the Wii Remote just getting the cursor to sho...

Been playing Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou. It has cemented my hatred of the Wii Remote. It could have been a simple but fun game, but instead it's absolute frustration.

Hmm. I already have Shantae 3 and Freedom Planet, and I don't have a 3DS nor any plans to acquire one, but I might just do this for Citizens of Earth, it seems like fun.

-Dirty Pair: Project Eden (Famicom Disc System) It's not as bad as I had heard it was, but it's still pretty bad. Side scrolling sections have no checkpoints, you can only take one hit, touching an enemy during their death animation can kill you, and the air bike goes too fast for all the stuff spa...