Greatest video games of all time
Over the years, numerous gaming magazines and websites have churned out a ton of ranked lists as part of an ongoing attempt to comprehensively document the top 10 (or ...
Annotated Guide to Australian Pokémon
In 2017, the famed Australian pixel artist Paul Robertson posted a full set of 151 "Australian Pokémon" on his Tumblr, split into five separate sets: ...
1-up ‘n At ‘Em
With my pal Maxwell, who runs a YouTube channel called Retro Grand Prix, I co-hosted a couple pilot episodes of a retro gaming YouTube show called 1up 'n At 'Em. We may ...
Annotated Guide to Goemon
I, like I assume most of you, was rather captivated with the 1993 SNES game Legend of the Mystical Ninja when it first came out. It's a fun and immensely playable ...
Flappy Bird Player’s Guide
Flappy Bird is a game by .Gears Studios for Mac and Android handhelds that took the world by storm in early 2014. Though much has been written about the game's ...
Classic Nintendo Power Reviews
Between 1993 and 1997, Nintendo Power magazine reviewed newly-released video games using a uniquely succinct format: they'd note the game's most attractive feature, ...
Play American
Play American is a Tumblr page set up by me in which I draw fan art of various video game characters. Originally, the plan was to only draw characters from ...
Annotated Guide to the Simpsons Arcade Game
Long known to jaded fans of the TV series as "the one good Simpsons game," The Simpsons arcade game (officially titled just The Simpsons) was released by the ...
Nintendo’s Era of Censorship
[caption id="attachment_715" align="alignright" width="300"] As video games grew in popularity, so did moral panic over their content. Nintendo tired to appease anxious ...
Japanese Things in Video Games
The Japanese are very into this idea that most things in life have an objectively ideal or "correct" form. They even have a word, kata (型), which, although difficult ...
The Pointless Samurai Level
Here's an axiom of classic game design: the less effort that went into a Japanese-made video game, the greater the likelihood that game will contain a pointless ...
The Characters
Beginning in the late 1990s, it became fashionable for Japanese game companies to churn out titles whose dominant theme was simply self-aggrandizing nostalgia. They'd ...
