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 stepping into Hyrule, I was already pushing forty when I finally picked up my first Zelda game. My daughter had been bugging me for months to try A Link to the Past on her SNES, and I kept putting it off because, honestly, it looked like kid stuff. Boy, was…
The summer of ’92 was when everything went sideways. I’m talking about friendships ending over hedgehogs and plumbers, kids literally…
When I started seriously getting into retro gaming around 2010, my daughter kept insisting I had to play this game…
Right, so I need to come clean about something that might make me sound like a proper gaming heretic –…
I remember exactly where I was when I first encountered Metal Gear Solid – crammed into my buddy Mike’s basement…
Man, I can still remember the exact moment Metroid clicked for me, and it wasn’t even on a Sega system…
My introduction to sports gaming was a complete accident, really. It was 1985 and I’d saved up my pocket money…
The summer of 1991 changed everything for me. I was fourteen, dealing with all the usual awkward teenage stuff, when…
I was forty-one years old when I first threw a punch in a video game that actually connected with something…
