Posted on September 30, 2026
Batman: Arkham Asylum Review — Trapped in Gotham’s Madhouse, and Loving Every Minute
Seventeen years later, Rocksteady’s trip into Gotham’s madhouse remains one of the most atmospheric nights Batman ever spent in a video game. There is a moment early in Batman: Arkham Asylum when you realize the game understands something… Read More
Posted on September 20, 2026
Persona Turns 30: From Niche JRPG to Global Powerhouse
What the first Persona established was something more fundamental: the strange mixture of ordinary adolescence and supernatural terror that would eventually become one of the franchise’s defining characteristics.
Posted on September 18, 2026
10 Batman Games That Defined the Dark Knight Before Arkham
One game might turn the Dark Knight into an acrobatic 8-bit wall-jumper. Another would drop him into a side-scrolling street brawl. Others tried stealth, detective work, driving, gadgets, puzzle solving or simply letting Batman punch half of Gotham through conveniently placed scenery.
That unpredictability is part of what makes retro Batman games so much fun to revisit.
Posted on September 16, 2026
Chrono Trigger Review: Is the SNES Legend Really That Good?
Released for the Super Nintendo in 1995, Chrono Trigger arrived during an extraordinary period for 16-bit RPGs. Yet its reputation has grown beyond simply being another great Square game from the era. It is now routinely treated as one of the defining Japanese RPGs—and that kind of praise can become its own problem.
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 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 August 23, 2026
Devil May Cry Turns 25: The PlayStation 2 Classic That Made Action Stylish
Twenty-five years after Dante first walked into Mallet Island, Capcom’s demonic action game still feels like the moment 3D combat learned how to show off. Today, Devil May Cry turns 25. Originally released for the PlayStation 2 in… Read More
Posted on August 21, 2026
11 Retro Platformers That Defined Childhood Weekends
There was a particular rhythm to childhood weekends in the cartridge-and-disc era. The CRT came on. A controller cable stretched across the living-room floor. Maybe there was a rented game sitting beside the console, still tucked inside one of those chunky video-store cases. Maybe a friend came over carrying a cartridge you had only seen in magazines. And suddenly, whatever plans existed for Saturday afternoon were gone.
Posted on August 13, 2026
Metal Gear Solid: The Night PlayStation Grew Up
Plenty of PS1 games were already demonstrating what Sony’s little gray console could do with 3D worlds, cinematic presentation, and CD-quality audio. Metal Gear Solid pulled those pieces together and made the PlayStation feel like it was capable of something different—a game that could be tense, funny, melodramatic, politically charged, mechanically inventive, and completely aware that you were sitting there holding a controller.
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Posted on September 19, 2026
Why Batman Was Always Destined for Video Games
by Big Willie Retro
Batman was suited to video games long before video games were capable of doing everything Batman does.
The character already possessed almost every ingredient game designers spend years trying to create: hand-to-hand combat, stealth, detective work, gadgets, vehicles, traversal, environmental problem-solving and a world filled with distinctive locations, villains and visual atmosphere.
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