Tag Archives: SNES

As someone who did not spend the early ’90s gaming, the SNES Mini should be my gateway drug into the early Nintendo world. Having that opportunity – without needing to cobble together my own ROM collection or spending a small fortune on the Virtual Console – would be an incredible …

War. War never changes. Well, that’s not quite true. We might be familiar with the concept of mass artillery and enemy warfare thanks to Call of Duty, Battlefield, Resistance (and way more games that we couldn’t possibly list in full here), yet each one tweaks the nature of war to …

There’s no real way to justify this, is there? No ‘games are art’ excuse. Just the fact that sometimes, just sometimes, gruesome violence in games can be an awful lot of fun. And it’s even more fun when it’s not you that’s having your noggin disconnected from the rest of …

For over 30 years, Mario has been entertaining people the world over in some of the best games of all time. With such a long history, theres a mountain of trivia and seemingly useless facts to learn about the franchise. We’ve wasted our lives collecting much of this info, bringing …

We don’t remember Mike Myers saying that… If there’s two things we’ve done all our lives, it’s watch movies and play video games. Sometimes, if you’ve been very, very good (or bad, depending), the season’s hottest flick gets a video game adaptation. Most of them are so-so, some are adequate, …

Shoot to (do anything other than) kill We’ve pretty much come to accept that video games have no problem giving players a firearm and letting them shoot anything that moves. Our gaming heroes have probably sent more bullets downrange than there are drops of rain during a thunderstorm. So when …

Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow. Whether grinding Magikarp levels on a bruised ’89 Game Boy or still furiously typing commands into a Twitch chat trying to take down a gym leader, we’re still playing the original pocket monster adventure 20 years after it first came out. With the OG Pokemon …

The years have been equally kind and cruel to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. On the one hand, the artistry of its somber Hyrule has only become more beautiful over the past decade. On the other, irritating quests like having to gather a bunch of bug souls for no …

Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse is one of the best NES games ever made, a master class in action and style that continues to inform killer games today. No Castlevania 3? No Rogue Legacy, no Odallus, and many, many other killer games. But how do you make a game like Castlevania …

Street Fighter 5 is here, right in time for Street Fighter 2’s 25th anniversary! We’re celebrating by giving away a heaping pile of Street Fighter goodies. First up, is the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition for Xbox 360, including Street Fighter 2 HD Remix, Super Street Fighter 4, Street …