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Goodbye to Substack, hello to Beehiiv
Jan 22, 2025
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Past meets present: Cosmo Gang the Puzzle
You might better know it as Pac-Attack, but this puzzle was originally a spin-off of a different and lesser-known Namco series.
Jan 21, 2025
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Marc Normandin
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Re-release this: Bomberman Max
You could think of that name as more like "Bomberman & Max," considering the game features the two characters, and less like "Max Bomberman," but either…
Jan 15, 2025
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The top 101 Nintendo games of all-time
Sep 28, 2020
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Ranking the top 101 Nintendo games: No. 1, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Jun 9, 2021
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Marc Normandin
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25 years of the N64: The N64's controller is good, actually
Sep 27, 2021
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Marc Normandin
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Ranking the top 101 Nintendo games: No. 3, Super Mario Galaxy 2
Jun 4, 2021
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Marc Normandin
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Sega Genesis controller review
Nov 5, 2021
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Ranking the top 101 Nintendo games: No. 6, Super Metroid
May 28, 2021
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Retro spotlight: Gradius
Gradius is to horizontal shooters what Xevious is to vertical ones, which is to say, this is a foundational game.
Jan 10, 2025
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Marc Normandin
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Retro spotlight: Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures
The Indiana Jones version of the Super Star Wars games, except the entire trilogy is in one place instead of spread out over three games.
Jan 6, 2025
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Marc Normandin
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2024's Games of the Year, Pt. 3
Yes, this is a retro video game publication, but I find plenty of time for new stuff, too.
Dec 23, 2024
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Marc Normandin
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2024's Games of the Year, Pt. 2
Yes, this is a retro video game publication, but I find plenty of time for new stuff, too.
Dec 20, 2024
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Marc Normandin
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2024's Games of the Year, Pt. 1
Yes, this is a retro video game publication, but I find plenty of time for new stuff, too.
Dec 18, 2024
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Marc Normandin
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The retro games of the year 2024
The best of the games I played for the first time in 2024, that weren't from 2024.
Dec 17, 2024
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Marc Normandin
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XP Arcade: Captain Commando
If you've never played a beat 'em up with a baby riding mechanized power armor delivering jumping piledrivers to space ninjas, then you've never played…
Dec 16, 2024
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Marc Normandin
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Retro spotlight: Shining in the Darkness
The actual first game in the Shining series was a first-person dungeon crawler filled with budget-conscious design decisions.
Dec 13, 2024
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Marc Normandin
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Re-release this: Meteos
Re-releasing Meteos, a Nintendo DS game that relied on the stylus to work as well as it did, would be tough. But there's one possible way.
Dec 9, 2024
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