Final Fantasy VI Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About RPGs
Christmas 1994, and I’m seventeen years old, trying way too hard to act like I don’t care about presents anymore but secretly still excited as...
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When Two Cartridges Became One Game – My...
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Digging Into N64 Power Supply Schematics – What...
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Why Your N64 Power Supply Will Eventually Die...
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Why I Still Fire Up My Genesis for...
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When N64 Star Wars Games Made Me Forget...
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Why Hyperstone Heist Proves Genesis Did Beat ‘Em...
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Why I Spent Three Months Getting Genesis Emulation...
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Why Setting Up Proper Sega Emulation Changed How...
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Finding Mortal Kombat Trilogy N64 in My Collection...
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Why Mario Party 2 Turned My Accounting Brain...
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That Time Sega Made the Impossible Genesis Port...
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That Time Nintendo Actually Made Water Feel Like...
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That Time Pokemon Puzzle League Made Me Forget...
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Why Diddy Kong Racing Absolutely Smashed Every Other...
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Why Those Grimy Corner Arcades Were Gaming’s Golden...
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The Sega CD Games That Actually Made That...
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Why My Genesis and My Buddy’s Mega Drive...
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That Time Chakan Made Me Question My Life...
Game Reviews
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Eight Platformers That Ruined Me for Life (And I Regret Nothing)
Christmas 1985 was supposed to be about getting a bike. I’d been dropping hints for months, circling the red Schwinn in the Sears catalog, leaving...
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Why I Keep Coming Back to Symphony of the Night After 25 Years
There’s this funny thing that happens when you discover a game late in life – you can’t tell if you love it because it’s actually...
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The Game That Broke My Brain: How Final Fantasy VII Turned Me Into a Real RPG Player
I was nineteen and supposed to be cramming for a calculus midterm when I first saw it. Kevin and I were holed up in his...
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How A Construction Guy Fell Hard for Hyrule (And Why It Took 40 Years)
I’ll be straight with you – I came to The Legend of Zelda embarrassingly late in life. While most people have childhood memories of first...
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How the Sonic vs Mario Wars Split My Friend Group in Half (And Why I Secretly Played Both)
The summer of ’92 was when everything went sideways. I’m talking about friendships ending over hedgehogs and plumbers, kids literally choosing sides like we were...
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Learning the Hard Way: How Contra Kicked My Ass and Made Me Better for It
When I started seriously getting into retro gaming around 2010, my daughter kept insisting I had to play this game called Contra. “Dad, you haven’t...
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Why Banjo-Kazooie Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew About 3D Platformers
Right, so I need to come clean about something that might make me sound like a proper gaming heretic – I never actually played Banjo-Kazooie...
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That Time Metal Gear Solid Broke My Brain and Changed Gaming Forever
I remember exactly where I was when I first encountered Metal Gear Solid – crammed into my buddy Mike’s basement in January 1999, surrounded by...
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The Day Metroid Taught Me That Getting Lost Could Be Fun
Man, I can still remember the exact moment Metroid clicked for me, and it wasn’t even on a Sega system – yeah, I know, sacrilege...
