Retro Game SuperHyper

I’m pretty sure Aero Blasters is my favorite PC Engine shmup. There’s so much to love about it!

The game moves fast, the graphics are great, the music is catchy, and it plays like buttah. It’s so smooth! It’s sort of Gradius-esque, except when you get killed and respawn with your standard-issue peashooter, it’s not totally underpowered and you feel like you still have a fighting chance even with no power-ups (as opposed to Gradius games, where you die and lose all your power-ups and it makes you just want to stop playing videogames forever and sell your consoles).

Even the logo is rad! (One of the all-time best game logos IMHO!)

From some perspectives, the PC-Engine version of Aero Blasters might be the least impressive of the three versions of the game that were released. But I think it’s the best.

Continue reading “Aero Blasters for PC-Engine: All about the gameplay” →

GUESS WHAT YOU GUYS!! To commemorate the first year of Retro Game SuperHyper, I am super hyper proud to announce the Retro Game SuperHyper: Year 1 Fanzine, available RIGHT NOW!!

This 32-page ‘zine, which I personally designed and laid out, collects and remixes some of my favorite articles and features from the first year of RGSH, as well as some all-new content that is ONLY available in the ‘zine!  It’s available as a real live physical publication that you can order and will show up in your mailbox, as well as a PDF download! Continue reading “Introducing Retro Game SuperHyper: The ‘ZINE!” →

Today, October 16, 2017, Retro Game SuperHyper turns one year old! A winner is me! Continue reading “RGSH’s First Anniversary!” →

Really quick update, just a piece of business really — but as we approach the first anniversary of Retro Game SuperHyper, I have a couple things to announce. And the first one is this:

RETROGAMESUPERHYPER.COM
RETROGAMESUPERHYPER.NET

I figured after a year of running a blog and not getting sick of it yet, I’d go ahead and register the domain. So you can drop the “.wordpress” when visiting the blog now, thereby shaving a fraction of a second off your blog-reading speedrun!

The next announcement isn’t ready yet. It’ll be soon though — closer to the blog’s actual first birthday. And it’s super cool. Stay tuned and thanks for your support!

No, it’s not that I can’t spell — I recently dug up a stack of old board games based on videogames (see what I did there?), and well, what else am I gonna do but write a blog post about ’em? Continue reading “Getting Board with Videogames” →

With Nintendo’s announcement of two new Metroid games at this year’s E3 (Metroid Prime 4 for Switch and Metroid: Samus Returns for 3DS, which is out this Friday and also which I will probably be writing about more than once), I thought now would be a good time for me to write a little something about my history of Metroid fandom, and how I brought it to the internet over 20 years ago with the first dedicated Metroid website, the Metroid Database!

Continue reading “Me and the Metroid Database” →