Symphony of the Night and the near-death of Metroidvania games
Episode 137 of the podcast returns to the Metroidvania well... only to find it dried up in the '90s.
, by Jeremy Parish
Retronauts Micro 80 will remind you of the babe
What babe, you ask? Yeah, you know the one.
, by Jeremy Parish
The (game) boys of summer are back again
Yeah, it's another look at Nintendo's Baseball. For some reason.
, by Jeremy Parish
How Dissidia NT pays tribute to Final Fantasy's heritage
Director Takeo Kujiraoka fields our questions.
, by Jeremy Parish
Episode 136: Shantae's creator recounts the series' origins
WayForward's Matt Bozon goes WayBack to the Super NES era to recount the history of everyone's favorite half-genie hero.
, by Jeremy Parish
Plumbing the dank depths of Game Boy
Inevitably, the worst garbage to plague the NES made its way to the console's portable pal.
, by Jeremy Parish
What games like Lost Sphear get wrong about Chrono Trigger
Keep it simple, stupid.
, by Jeremy Parish
Mailbag call: Symphony of the Night and the brief death of metroidvania
Why did exploratory platformers vanish in the '90s? We'd love to field your theories.
, by Jeremy Parish
Retronauts Episode 135: Spider-Man Games
In this week's episode, we discuss the many video game adaptations of Marvel's arachnid superhero from 1982 to 1996.
, by Bob Mackey
This Day in VG History: 2007 | Etrian Odyssey resuscitates a forgotten genre
Atlus reminds the world that the old ways still have merit with its PC-style dungeon RPG.
, by Jeremy Parish
Super NES Works on the trials and tribulations of Tokusatsu
Hey, American kids, how about that Ultraman? Eh? EH?
, by Jeremy Parish