Month of Mario: Mario’s Early Years: Preschool Fun (SNES)
When should you introduce your child to Mario? Naturally it shouldn’t be before the age of 2 when their minds
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
1994
The Haunted Hoard: Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Super Castlevania IV on the Super Nintendo often comes up in discussions of the best games for that system, but
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Pieces (SNES)
The concept of competitive jigsaw puzzle completion might sound a little tepid on its surface, bringing to mind long rounds
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Disney’s Bonkers (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Back when I was very young my family rented Disney’s Bonkers for the Sega Genesis and apparently I was quite
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Crystal’s Pony Tale (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Looking at the cover of Crystal’s Pony Tale you find a game that can’t be said to be hinting at
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50 Years of Video Games: Super Metroid (SNES)
While the exploration-focused platformers known as Metroidvanias derive their genre name from two different series, there’s one game they’re all
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Barkley: Shut Up and Jam! (Genesis/Mega Drive)
By 1993, Charles Barkley was already one of the biggest stars in the NBA, not only because of his skills
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Mutant League Hockey (Genesis/Mega Drive)
After Electronic Arts brought cartoonish and irreverent violence to American football with Mutant League Football for a solid yet silly
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Mega Bomberman (Genesis/Mega Drive)
In discussions of which Bomberman game is best, Bomberman ’94 tends to place rather highly, the Japanese only game never
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Cruis’n USA (Arcade)
A cross country road trip from coast to coast is a common dream for those who love driving across the
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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (SNES)
The first level of a game is usually where the game will set its tone and introduce the player to
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Dynamite Headdy (Genesis/Mega Drive)
The 1990s were teeming with mascot platformers who tried to pull in players with supposedly cool main characters, many developers
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Wario’s Woods (SNES)
Many color-matching puzzle games position the player as something somewhat detached from the game world, often taking the form of
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X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (SNES)
X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse is usually billed as something between a platformer and a beat-em-up, and while both genre names come
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Tin Star (SNES)
The wild west is a pretty good setting for a shooting game. Shootouts, duels at high noon, blasting bottles with
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Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! (Game Boy)
For quite a while, the appeal of the Bomberman series has evaded me. Part of it was the simplicity of
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Mega Man X (SNES)
The Mega Man series was absolutely massive back on the NES. I can’t think of any other series that managed
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