After my previous post on F-Zero, wherein I mentioned that I hadn’t spent much time with GP Legend, the second of three Game Boy Advance entries in the series. So I decided to remedy that! Continue reading “What are we playing? 02.23.17”
This started off as an Instagram post, but as I started talking about how much I love F-Zero, I realized I had enough to say about it to make a short blog post. Continue reading “F-Zero 4 life”
I’ve read lots of books on video game history. Some have been engrossing page-turners and some have been a bit amateurish and bland.
I’ve just finished Console Wars by Blake J. Harris, which I’d heard a lot about recently. The book is a somewhat dramatized account of the marketing battle between Sega and Nintendo in the 16-bit era.
If you were around in the early 1990s, you no doubt remember the Genesis vs SNES “war” that raged across the battlefields of magazines, TV, and school playgrounds. (“Genesis does what Nintendon’t” should definitely ring a very loud bell.) Continue reading “Gamer’s Library: Console Wars”
To follow up on my earlier post about playing Link’s Awakening, I finished the game after picking away at it for a few weeks!
Overall, I liked it quite a bit. It felt really good to play a traditional, top-down, 2D Zelda game that I wasn’t very familiar with. Games like this never feel dated to me even when I experience them for the first time, so it says a lot about its quality that it’s aged very well. Continue reading “Zelda: Link’s Awakening: FINISHED!”
Link’s Awakening has always been kind of the gap in my Zelda history. Continue reading “What are we playing? 10.16.16”
Retro Game SuperHyper 