My love affair with The Legend of Zelda series began in the most unremarkable of places—my cousin’s dingy basement in suburban Michigan, sometime in the fall of 1992. I was fourteen, awkward as hell, and visiting for Thanksgiving weekend. My cousin Eddie was the “cool” relative, seventeen and already sporting the beginnings of what would become a truly spectacular mullet. While the adults upstairs argued about politics and fussed over turkey timing, Eddie introduced me…
I can still hear the heated arguments echoing across the playground of Westlake Elementary circa 1992. “Sonic is way cooler!”…
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In 1996, with the debut of the Nintendo 64 (N64), video game history was irrevocably altered. The N64 was, and…
Few gaming moments are genuinely transformative, but for me, the appearance of Tomb Raider was precisely that. The late 1990s…
The first gaming magazine I ever owned wasn’t even mine. It was my older brother Dave’s copy of Nintendo Power,…
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…
As I contemplate in my game room, I am surrounded by a combination of new and old gaming consoles. However,…
I remember the first time I played Metroid with startling clarity. It wasn’t even my game. My cousin Mark had…
My first sports video game was Basketball on the Atari 2600, and calling it “basketball” required more imagination than actual…
Christmas morning, 1986. I was eight years old, still in my pajamas with the feet built in (Spider-Man, if you’re…
