Posted on September 15, 2026
12 NES Games That Are Cheaper Than You Think in 2026
You don’t need a collector’s budget to put some genuinely great NES games back on your shelf. Spend enough time looking at retro game prices online and it can start to feel as though every good NES game… Read More
Posted on September 14, 2026
Nintendo GameCube Turns 25: The Little Purple Console That Refused to Play It Safe
Nintendo launched the GameCube first in Japan on September 14, 2001. Contemporary reporting from Tokyo described a relatively quiet hardware debut accompanied by only three launch games: Luigi’s Mansion, Wave Race: Blue Storm, and Sega’s wonderfully eccentric Super Monkey Ball.
Posted on September 11, 2026
25 Retro Shooters That Still Test Your Reflexes And Your Nerves
For several games here, modern releases provide an easier route. Konami’s Contra Anniversary Collection, for example, includes multiple classic Contra titles on current digital platforms, while Sunset Riders has an Arcade Archives release on Switch and PS4. Nintendo’s Genesis library currently includes M.U.S.H.A. and Contra: Hard Corps, and Ikaruga remains digitally available on Switch. Radiant Silvergun also has a modern PC release.
Posted on September 5, 2026
8 GameCube Games That Deserve More Respect
But some of the most interesting underrated GameCube games lived farther down the rental-store shelf. They were the games you discovered because your first choice was already checked out, because the box art looked strange enough to gamble a weekend on, or because somebody at school insisted, “No, seriously, you have to try this.”
Posted on September 2, 2026
Strider NES: The Weird, Ambitious Capcom Adventure That Refused to Play It Safe
Strider on NES wasn’t the arcade game squeezed onto a cartridge. It was stranger than that—and in some ways, far more interesting. Before Strider Hiryu became the impossibly cool, blade-swinging acrobat many players remember from arcades and the… Read More
Posted on September 1, 2026
Why Retro Game Re-Releases Matter More Than Ever
The games we grew up with shouldn’t become museum pieces we can remember, collect, and watch—but no longer easily play. There was a time when rediscovering an old game could happen almost by accident. Maybe you spotted a… Read More
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Posted on September 8, 2026
Why 16-Bit Pixel Art Still Looks Timeless
by Big Willie Retro
The enduring appeal of 16-bit graphics isn’t just nostalgia for cartridges, CRT televisions or afternoons spent sitting too close to the screen. It comes from something deeper: artists working within severe technological boundaries developed an extraordinarily expressive visual language built around color, silhouette, animation, suggestion and imagination.
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