Look, I never owned Final Fantasy VII when it first came out. Couldn’t afford a PlayStation back then – I was still trying to make ends meet in my twenties, working construction jobs that barely paid the bills. So when I finally got around to playing it years later on an emulator my daughter set up for me, it was this incredible experience discovering what I’d missed. That four-disc epic sitting in a jewel case…
I’m forty-seven years old and I still remember the exact texture of that NES controller in my sweaty hands. It’s…
First time I nuked an entire town in a video game was back when I was catching up on all…
The Nintendo 64 launch was a proper wake-up call for those of us deep in the European gaming scene. September…
Right, let me tell you about the time the entire gaming industry collectively lost its mind over wiggling controllers about…
Right, so I need to get something off my chest about The Last of Us telly adaptation, specifically about Henry…
Man, I have to admit something that’s kind of embarrassing for someone who claims to know retro RPGs – I…
You know what’s funny? I can pinpoint the exact moment my high school’s social order got completely turned upside down,…
Christmas morning 1987, and I’m seven years old staring at this orange plastic gun that came with our new Nintendo.…
God, the summer of ’92. I can still feel that oppressive heat wave that basically trapped me and my brother…
