Standing in my buddy Mike’s basement in late 1996, gripping that bizarre three‑pronged Nintendo 64 controller for the first time, I couldn’t shake this nagging thought: “Where the hell is Sonic?” Here was Nintendo’s fancy new 64‑bit powerhouse, Super Mario 64 bouncing around in actual 3D like some kind of digital miracle, and yet… no blue hedgehog anywhere to be found. For someone who’d grown up on Sega versus Nintendo playground debates, the idea of…
The other night I’m trying to get my teenager to actually go to bed—you know how that goes, suddenly they’re…
Man, I need to tell you about one of the most underappreciated games in the entire Sega Genesis / Mega…
I came to the X-Men Genesis game completely backwards, like most of my retro gaming discoveries. My daughter found it…
There I was in 1997, sixteen years old and standing in Funcoland with twenty bucks my grandma had given me…
Walking into that used electronics store in downtown Denver around 2011, I wasn’t looking for anything in particular. Just browsing…
Last weekend I’m wandering through this thrift store in Aurora, mostly killing time before meeting my daughter for lunch, when…
Last weekend I was digging through my game room – well, calling it a game room makes it sound fancy,…
Man, I can still hear that jetpack sound effect in my sleep. Not the cheap, tinny beep you’d expect from…
You know how it goes with movie tie-in games. You’re standing there in the video store – or in this…
