NEOGEO Pocket Color Selection Vol. 2 Review
Has this not been the year for reviving old games? Sheesh. Of course, what most of you believe is old started back in the mid-2000s. For us old fogies, it means the 90s and below. Anyway, the 90s have been revisited with the NEOGEO Pocket Color Selection Vol. 2 from SNK. It’s a good collection coming from a handheld system that was with us ever so briefly. If you don’t know much about the NEOGEO P...[Read More]
Atari 50: Anniversary Celebration Review
A bar has been set. I’m not sure I can review another Bandai Namco Entertainment of America Museum game without it matching the art, the honesty, and the design that went into making Atari 50. As someone who teaches video game history for a living as a professor, I can without a doubt say that this treats Atari’s history right and truthful while offering up wonderful video game memories you can pl...[Read More]
Atari Mania Review
Atari Mania is an interesting game that plays off the nostalgia of ye olden days while applying the construct of a Wario World mini-game backbone. While the latter of those two brings some of the wackiest types of mini-games, such as trying to pick someone’s nose or trying to catch the paw of a dog to make it happy, Atari Mania uses its library of old games from the Atari 2600 days to breathe in s...[Read More]
Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium Review
Capcom has brought a second arcade stadium for those who enjoy retro gaming. This time around, this arcade package includes a cornucopia of different genres which slowly detail the transition Capcom went through from shooters, action games, and fighting titles. This collection reaches back to the 80s and spans both sides of the globe. There is certainly a variety here. Now, just because you’re get...[Read More]
Pac-Man Museum+ Review
For those unlucky readers that have followed me for the past 14 years on this site, you know that I’m a huge retro nerd. I play every old game released, remixed, and re-issued from the 80s, just so I can get my arcade kicks on whenever I feel like it. Just last week, I played a bevy of old retro games that included Konami’s Track & Field, the entire Capcom Arcade Stadium collection, and ...[Read More]
Ninja Gaiden Master Collection lands on Game Pass (Xbox and PC) June 2nd
Tough game. Check out the official goods below. BURLINGAME, Calif. – May 31, 2022 – Today, KOEI TECMO America and developer Team NINJA revealed that the NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection will join Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service on June 2 for both console and PC! All Game Pass subscribers will be able to play the standard edition of the game for free on Xbox One consoles (playable on Xbox...[Read More]
Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure Review
I love me some Pinball FX3. If you have never dabbled in Pinball FX3, it’s essentially a program that carries a slew of pinball emulators. The pinball machines in its collection are a variety of new creative and classic pinball machines that are hard or impossible to find. Every few months (probably more than that recently) the good folks at Zen Studios unleash new pinball machines for people to t...[Read More]
Disney Classic Games Collection (featuring Aladdin, The Jungle Book, and The Lion King)
Disney is a strange company that usually keeps its licenses close to its heart and doesn’t like people fiddling around with them. If you need an example of this, go read the tedious start to Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios, who have had, at times, a rough relationship over how IP is treated. Most of the time, it’s with a fine-toothed comb. Sony Pictures struggles at times with keeping fan-accurat...[Read More]
Space Invaders Invincible Collection Review
It has been 43 years in the making and one of the world’s most iconic arcade games that first featured a narrative (mostly racing and shooting back in the day – it was simpler times) has made it to the Switch in nearly every form. Space Invaders Invincible Collection takes a kind tour through the many iterations of its type, and I must tell you that it may have aged a bit, but it’s still frustrati...[Read More]
Capcom Arcade Stadium Review
Often when I play arcade games from my childhood, I look back and wonder, “How many freaking quarters did I spend on this? How did I enjoy this experience?” That said, welcome to Capcom Arcade Stadium. A slew of childhood memories that are far harder than I remember, but nonetheless exactly what they were when I experienced them. Let’s dig into this. Your nostalgia on sale The idea of an arcade ex...[Read More]
Stephen King 5-Movie collection announced for Blu-ray
Check out the details below. Prepare thyself for Hallows Eve. Prepare for terrifying suspense and bone-chilling thrills with this new 5-Movie Collection arriving on Blu-ray September 15, 2020. Based on the written works of Stephen King, these five films offer the perfect entertainment for Halloween: Pet Sematary (1989), Pet Sematary (2019), Stephen King’s The Stand, The Dead Zone, and Stephen King...[Read More]
The Goonies, Beetlejuice, Sherlock Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows head to 4K UHD and Blu-ray in September
Proper and proper. These movies deserve the 4K treatment. Check out the official details below. BURBANK, CA, JULY 13, 2020 – Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that Richard Donner’s The Goonies (1985), Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988), and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows (2011), will be released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on September 1, 2020. 4K U...[Read More]