Genesis Does What Nintendon’t – Moonwalker
By 1988, Michael Jackson was on top of the world as the “King of Pop”. Radios everywhere were playing his music, he was feted (and hounded) by the press, and the […]
By 1988, Michael Jackson was on top of the world as the “King of Pop”. Radios everywhere were playing his music, he was feted (and hounded) by the press, and the […]
Sega was running hot by 1991 thanks to efforts by Tom Kalinske (hired the year before) and his crack team at Sega of America. That year, the Sega Genesis actually […]
Gamasutra reported yesterday was the 25th Anniversary for id Software’s Commander Keen. Not only that, but John Romero (id Software alumnus) also posted a video of a demo for Super Mario […]
Although the SNES gets a lot of love today with many touting it as Nintendo’s “greatest” console (and there are tons of reasons why that’s the case), it’s also easy […]
Capcom’s 1942 in 1984 and its sequel, 1943: The Battle of Midway in 1987, were two exciting shooters sending players into the Pacific Theater of WW2 to blast the Imperial […]
The first time I had seen Magician Lord was sometime during the early 90s in the arcade set up inside what looked like a generic, red cab, with a tiny […]
In the early 90s, SNK started using the Neo Geo MVS (Multi Video System), a standardized arcade system requiring arcade operators to change only the cartridge a game was stored […]
This gem appeared in the arcades in 1990. Designed by a company called V-System in Japan, the game was distributed in the United States by the American Sammy Corporation in […]
When TSR and SSI combined their powers, the AD&D world on PCs would never be the same again. The Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Ravenloft, Spelljammer, and even Buck Rogers would usher […]
Dungeons and Dragons could be a complicated game. AD&D even moreso with its plethora of expanded rules. Enter Tunnels & Trolls whose first edition was released in June, 1975, almost […]