I've got some spare time because my NES is auto-leveling Rygar, which I'm going to attempt to play through tonight. I've never b...

I spent the weekend reading Faulkner and playing Wizards and Warriors. (and Ironsword, the first two games in the 4-part series). You play a...

Every gamer suspects that games were better in the past. Obviously, most such feelings are nostalgia, but others enjoy playing older video g...

Pitfall! is considered the first major platformer, and an important piece of video game history. The game was released in 1982 for the Atari...

This is the first entry in a three part piece entitled Arcadia. The second and third installments will cover philosophic readings of Berserk...

I've been listening to the latest cd by Dr. Zilog, Malevolent Necropolis . It's free to download on his myspace blog . It's a de...

The title of this post is intentionally misleading. What this retrospective is all about is taking a post to remember 2008, not in terms of ...