I started the Cheapest Games series quite a while ago and I figured I should revise some of the posts to reflect some of the changing values and give more relevant recommendations. Hopefully, this revised list of Gamecube games will help you start or build up your collection without having to spend much.. (Prices listed […]
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=23062 To go along with our selection of NBA Jam as our Together Retro Game Club title, I thought it would be fun to see what everone’s favorite old-school sports titles are. Â (The only restrictions for nominations were that they games were N64 or older and not include standard racing or wrestling games). We […]
Presented by Gamerforlife Note from racketboy: I’m proud to welcome the forum veteran, Gamerforlife to the contributer team. Â His passion for the Beatemup genre really shone through with this piece and I look forward to more guides from him. Â Enjoy! BTW, this is our second installment of our Genre 101 series, following up on Ack’s […]
Presented by Ack Here at Racketboy.com, we don’t often talk about LCD games. They’re not really under our purview, so to speak. But they do have a solid relationship with video games, and in some cases, this bleeds over into definite video game territory. Sometimes it’s as simple as a character appearing in a game(Game […]
It’s been a while since we posted an entry in our featured video game fan art series. Â However, I would like to features some additional pieces, but thought I would ask the wonderful Racketboy community which series or characters they would like to see highlighted. Â Now, I realize some large franchises aren’t featured in this […]
When you add a console to your collection, the first thing you want to do is get a handful of games to keep you busy with your new toy. However, most of us can’t spend afford to spend fat pile of cash for a few games. This budget-friendly list should help you quickly find which […]
Oh Sega… you were such cunning marketers in the early 1990’s. We all love the Sega Scream campaign and Sonic’s extra ounce of attitude that, in our minds, gave him the advantage over Mario. However, once Sega attempted to move faster with their technology in order to stay a step or two ahead of their […]
Presented by Ack Note: Hope you enjoy our first genre-specific installment of our Defining Games series During the 1990s, the fighting genre dominated the arcade scene, helping the industry come back for a few years from a slump partially created by home console releases. Fighting games slowly continued to evolve, trying new gameplay and graphical […]
Presented by Ack Note: We have been creating beginner’s guides for a number of classic consoles, but now we’re expanding the concept to genre-specific guides. Â We hope you find them useful for getting more familiar with a genre. Â If you have further questions or recommendation for the series, please post something in the comments. Survival […]
While, the hardware for the standard home version of the Neo-Geo, the AES is cheaper, the games for it are MUCH more expensive than those of the arcade MVS versions. Because of this, there are many ways to play the cheaper MVS cartridges on a home console device — here’s some ideas to make Neo-Geo […]
Presented by Ack Note from 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. When console gamers and collectors think back to 1993, most likely think of the glory days of […]
Presented by Ack Note: Hope you enjoy our first genre-specific installment of our Hidden Gems series. Also be sure to check out our guide to the Defining Games of the Fighting Genre. In 1991, a storm swept over the international arcade scene. Street Fighter II swept the world, invigorating the arcade scene, determine the future […]
Presented by Ack & Fastbilly1 During the fifth generation of video game consoles, the Nintendo 64 was routinely criticized for its lack of third-party support, and the “kiddie†and relatively non-violent focus of its game library. Yet, though it did not fare as well as the PlayStation and Nintendo has suffered from a recurring image […]
To accompany our choice of the original Contra for our game of the month for the Together Retro Game Club, I thought it would be great to get the community’s opinion on how all the rest of the games in the Contra series rank. I know it will be hard for some of you to […]
When the digital distribution model started taking off on services like Xbox Live Arcade and PSN, I had a feeling that we would start seeing affordable downloads of cult-classic games that have previously been expensive collectors pieces. Â So at the end of 2006, I started tracking a handful of games that I thought would be […]
