Discovering Tomb Raider at 40: How Lara Croft Taught This Late Bloomer About Real Adventure
They capture that feeling better than any other game I’ve played since. Going through those empty corridors — hearing Lara’s boots echoing off stone walls...
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Why I Keep Coming Back to Symphony of the Night After 25 Years
There is something strange that occurs when you encounter a video game late in life — it is difficult to determine whether you truly love...
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Zelda A Link to the Past Made Me Rethink My Sega Loyalty
I am also willing to admit that I have a confession to make — I’ve spent the last few thousand words fawning over a Nintendo...
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How The SNES vs Genesis War Split My Retro Gaming Heart — And My Wallet
In 2011, I walked into a bar fight that had been raging for twenty years, except everybody was now yelling about something that happened when...
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Street Fighter Changed How I Saw Gaming
There’s no question about it. There’s no doubt that the best way to experience Street Fighter II is at an arcade. I’ll admit it –...
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Twenty-five years after its release, I still think about the Dreamcast every day.
When I am down in my basement game room organizing my collection for the hundredth time this year (my wife says I have OCD; she...
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How I Finally “Got” EarthBound After Dismissing It as Too Weird
I must confess something that is somewhat humiliating for someone who considers himself knowledgeable about retro RPGs — I completely blew it on EarthBound. When...
