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Revisiting Ninja Gaiden for the NES: Is it worth playing again?

Revisiting Ninja Gaiden for the NES: Is it worth playing again?

Sometimes arcade games lie to you. Case in point: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If you visited an arcade sometime in 1989 with three of your friends, you probably easily blew $10 worth of quarters EACH on the TMNT arcade game. It was thrilling, fast-paced beat ‘em up alongside impressive...

What to know before you visit Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Hollywood

What to know before you visit Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Hollywood

It was always my destiny to visit a video game in real life. I believed as much when the first incarnation of Super Nintendo World opened at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. This was in the middle of the pandemic, and they were like, we’ll risk it all because...

Every game you can play on Nintendo Switch classic consoles

Every game you can play on Nintendo Switch classic consoles

Updated 5/5/2023 I get it — there are emulators, handhelds, and all kinds of other ways you can play classic console games these days. But they can be buggy and unpredictable. Nintendo made a really savvy move, at least for consumers like me, when they essentially built their own...

10 SNES game soundtracks better than anything on your playlist

10 SNES game soundtracks better than anything on your playlist

Look, taste in music is subjective. I won’t argue that, but you also shouldn’t argue the fact that if you don’t have at least one Super Nintendo game soundtrack on your playlist, you’re objectively wrong. I don’t want to hear any whining about “oh, video...

Games That Time Forgot: Adventures of Lolo

Games That Time Forgot: Adventures of Lolo

Sometimes being a blue ball with eyes and feet has its benefits. That’s more or less the premise behind the underground, quirky puzzler, Adventures of Lolo. Besides being a blue ball, Lolo is also out to save his girlfriend, cleverly named Lala (a pink ball with eyes and feet)...

Why the original Animal Crossing was and always will be the best

Why the original Animal Crossing was and always will be the best

Close your eyes. Hear the whistle of the train. The high-pitched babbling of your neighbor. The “ding ding” of your full mailbox. Since 2002, Animal Crossing has continued to call us home. It stole our hearts on GameCube, and our captivation with it endured through the Nintendo DS, 3DS, Wii,...

5 video games I still find time to play as a dad

5 video games I still find time to play as a dad

One of the most annoying parts of being a parent is the amount of time it takes away from playing video games. That and being pooped on. But there are those hallowed games that are just too good, too alluring, too its-better-than-being-pooped on to NOT find time to play. As...