I still remember the exact moment Diablo took over my life. It was January 1997, a Tuesday night with snow piling up outside my apartment window. I had a term paper due Friday that I hadn’t started, dirty dishes stacked precariously in the sink, and just enough money left from my last paycheck to either buy groceries or this new game everyone at the computer lab kept talking about. I chose Diablo. By sunrise, I…
“Are we there yet?” I must have asked that question two dozen times during our family’s epic road trip from…
I didn’t get my Atari 2600 new. Actually, I was a bit late to the Atari party, which I’ve been…
The first time I ever played a game against someone who wasn’t physically sitting next to me felt like actual…
I remember the day I brought Riven home in October 1997. The five-CD jewel case felt substantial in my hands,…
I was seven years old when I first met Mario, though neither of us knew we’d be lifelong companions. It…
It was Christmas morning, 1994. I was sixteen, awkwardly caught between childhood excitement for presents and teenage pretensions of being…
8 Best Platformers of the 80s & 90s That Shaped My Childhood The Christmas of 1987 changed my life. I…
There are games you play, games you love, and then there are games that fundamentally alter your relationship with the…
I first saw Final Fantasy VII in the back pages of a dog-eared issue of GamePro at my friend Kevin’s…