I can still hear the heated arguments echoing across the playground of Westlake Elementary circa 1992. “Sonic is way cooler!” “Yeah, but Mario has better games!” Kids with fierce loyalty in their eyes, occasionally getting red-faced over video game characters they’d adopted as personal champions. The 16-bit console wars weren’t just happening in the pages of gaming magazines or on TV commercials—they were being fought daily in cafeterias, basements, and backyards across suburbia. And I…
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The summer of 1988 was defined by three things: uncomfortably hot weather that made my Nintendo feel warm to the…
Summer 1998. I’d just finished my sophomore year of college, moved back home to save money, and landed a soul-crushing…
I first met Solid Snake on a frigid January night in 1999. My roommate had gone home for the weekend,…
The day I brought GoldenEye 007 back to my college dorm in the fall of 1997 was the day my…
I still have dreams about the sound. That chaotic symphony of electronic bleeps, bloops, explosions, and synthesized music all competing…
