Last weekend I’m wandering through this thrift store in Aurora, mostly killing time before meeting my daughter for lunch, when I spot something that stops me cold. There’s a copy of Wave Race 64 sitting there for five bucks, and the box art still looks incredible after all these years. The metallic sheen on that artwork catches the fluorescent lights just right, and suddenly I’m remembering why Nintendo’s N64 packaging was such a big deal.…
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…
Right, so there I was Saturday afternoon, elbow-deep in cables again because I’d finally caved and bought one of those…
The fog was everywhere. That’s the first thing that hit me when my daughter fired up Turok on her N64…
I was fourteen when my buddy Mike showed up at my house with what looked like the weirdest Genesis cartridge…
You know what they say about good intentions and where they lead? Well, last week I was just planning to…
You know that moment when you’re digging through boxes in the loft and find your old N64, cartridges still wedged…
There I was in 1993, standing in Electronics Boutique with forty bucks burning a hole in my pocket—serious money for…
Man, I have to be honest here – as a lifelong Sega guy, talking about N64 games feels a little…
You know that satisfying snap when a Genesis cartridge clicks into place? Man, I was messing around with my collection…
I never owned a Genesis growing up – hell, I barely knew what one was back in rural Wyoming during…
Right, so there I was three weeks ago, up in my parents’ loft helping clear out decades of accumulated rubbish,…
So there I was last Saturday, rummaging through a box of N64 games that’s been sitting in my spare room…
