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Let's Rank - Top 50 Gameboy Advance Games

January 29, 2022

We've always thought of the Gameboy Advance as the new, portable Super Nintendo, or the continuation of what the Super Nintendo had to offer, in handheld form, with its similar specs made smaller, it's no wonder that the Gameboy Advance inherited so many of its port.

Let's Rank - Top 50 Obscure Genesis Games

January 25, 2022

After the release of the excellent Master System third-generation 8-bit home video game console in 1985, SEGA stepped up its game to rival the newly crowned Nintendo, following the massive success of the Nintendo Entertainment System. SEGA dreamed big in this adaptation of the System 16 arcade board, nicknamed Sega Genesis in America, more commonly called "Mega Drive" anywhere else in the world.

Let's Rank - Top 10 First Person Shooters of All Time

January 26, 2022

While DOOM popularized the genre in 1993, the lesser-known "Wolfenstein 3D" was the true pioneer. First-person shooters are gaming's most played genres, played by millions across the world at a time. With the release of DOOM on MS-DOS computers in 1993, the young, ingenious team at id Software revolutionized a gaming landscape that was once dominated by 2D side-scrollers, with an influx of "DOOM clones".

Let's Rank - Robot Masters & Mega Man Games (Double Feature)

January 26, 2022

Capcom's legendary gaming icon "Mega Man" has well over a hundred villainous Robot Masters ready to rival him in his fight against the tyrannical Dr. Wily, and while none stand a fighting chance against our heroic Blue Bombers, always saving the day; some of them definitely stole the show more than once - let's rank them!

Let's Rank - Mega Man Games & Robot Masters (Double Feature)

January 25, 2022

Super Fighting Robot: Mega Man! Mega Man was my earliest video game memory, not on the NES, but rather my dad's old Compudyne PC. As a child of 5 years old, no less, I recall the powerful blue bloom of the cathode ray tube, displaying what was soon to become my hero for the rest of my life.

Best Worst Video Game Movies - "Street Fighter: The Movie"

January 13, 2022

If you're watching a video game movie expecting anything but an embarrassing amount of cheese, you are most likely doing it wrong. While the release of "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" has been a considerable improvement over past adaptations in the eyes of many, the mere mention of video game movies is still seen, in many circles, as the terminal Monkey's Paw: a twisted aberration of fate.

There's a game from my early teen that I always wanted to cover: Medabots RPG. Medabots was a short-lived series created amid the "Pokemon craze" of the late-90s, with many of its games on Nintendo's Gameboy exclusive to Japan under the name "Medarot". Medabots put to death the "creature" aspect of the series, toward collecting "medaparts" and "Tinpet" to build robotic fighters and become a "medafighter": [...]

Review - Robotron 2084 & Sinistar (Double Feature)

January 17, 2022

Robotron was released on many systems In 2084, man creates a species of super-advanced cyborgs known as Robotrons. Recognizing the imperfect nature of their creators, the Robotrons conclude that the inefficient human race must be exterminated. In Robotron: 2084, only you and a single family of clones remain. If mankind is to survive, you must destroy the Grunts, Brains, Enforcers, and Tanks - but avoid the Hulks.

Quarter Suckers - Sinistar & Robotron 2084 (Double Feature)

January 17, 2022

Named after it's infamous antagonist, Sinistar is a Williams Electronics arcade classics known for its intense, quarter-sucking difficulty and sound work, being the first stereo arcade machine ever released, as well as featuring Sinistar's never-seen before digitized voice, terrorizing players with its nerve-wracking voice lines - "Beware - I live!"

Emulation's contribution to "retrorevisionism" (ft. MercuryCDX)

January 20, 2022

Nesticle was a DOS NES emulator created by Bloodlust Software The emulator revolutionized the emulation scene with save states and input recording. "Hardware is an interesting topic regarding retro games, but it's not the primary target of interest we have regarding retro games. It's games in relation to historical, cultural, aesthetic, and technological relevance.

Let's Talk - Plot holes and the "Rule of Cool"

January 13, 2022

Unknown variable: X. Mega Man is a video game series that started as an arguably shameless rip-off of the then more popular, now just as popular, Astro-Boy franchise. The Blue Bomber was a staple of the NES library with a plethora of 6 classic games, ranging from the console's release in 1985 to the end of its life in the mid-90s.

Let's Talk - "Composite over RGB - and when!"

January 13, 2022

Since the recent popularity of broadcast monitors, the standard composite signal of old has gotten the modish reputation of being undesirable by retro game enthusiasts, as well as for CRT hobbyists. Back in the days of analog televisions, the more common way to connect classic consoles was through composite video (also known as RCA cables).

Talking VR - a VR guide for the new Millenium

September 09, 2020

the Sensorama Patent (1962) In 1956, Cinematographer Morton Heilig created Sensorama, arguably the earliest known example of an immersive, multi-sensory virtual reality headset. Heilig's spectacles combined a full-color 3D video, audio, vibrations, smell, and atmospheric wind effects, the user would sit in an imaginary motorcycle while experiencing the street of New York through the screen.

Let's Talk - It's time to "backlog" the backlog

July 04, 2019

Backlogging, or the "stack of shame", is known in the gaming community as a list of video games that we take to heart to finish in a near future, to complete "the task" of beating games - much like the idea of accumulating dishes for days or even weeks in your kitchen sink...

Augmented Reality - 3D Virtual Pinball with BAM and Kinect 2

September 09, 2020

I recently decided to build a virtual pinball and included a Microsoft Kinect 2 as part of the build, watching the videos online really sparked a lot of interest in me and others joining the discussion. BAM is a software for Windows allowing perspective calculated for viewer eyes position in Pinball machine using the Kinect 2 device released by Microsoft for the XBox game console.