There was a time when it was a novelty for one videogame to acknowledge the existence of another videogame. When the shoot ’em up Parodius debuted on MSX in 1988, it gleefully lampooned other pieces of Konami’s arcade line-up. Parodius and its sequels would go on to parody the likes of Gradius, Castlevania, TwinBee, and Lethal Enforcers, creating a single publisher’s approximatio...[Read More]