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 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 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.”
