You know what makes me angry? The whole notion that everybody has said the NES was a defining console generation and they are correct —...
I have an excellent memory for when and where I played specific games. When thinking about Metal Gear Solid, I remember it like it was...
Christmas of 1985 was not supposed to go like this. I had my heart set on a bike that I had been coveting for months....
Christmas morning, 1987. I’m seven years old. I’m looking at this orange plastic gun that came bundled with our new Nintendo. My brother had been...
OK. Full disclosure time; I’ve been playing Sonic games since 1991. For reasons I don’t quite understand, I’m still obsessed now almost thirty years later....
I was nineteen-years-old opening it for the first time. I was meant to be studying for a calculus mid-term, but Kevin and I were barricaded...
The Game Boy kept me sane during what might have been the longest car trip in recorded history. I didn’t own any video games that...
Christmas 1985 wasn’t supposed to be like other Christmasses we’d had as a family. It wasn’t because my dad suddenly came up with some crazy...
My controller throwing moment happened because of summer of ’89 and Mega Man. I hurled my controller across the basement like I was Joe Nathan...
I remember the moment gaming became something more to me. Christmas Day, 1991. Age thirteen. Sitting on the floor in front of the TV in...
