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Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES, 1988)
In this modern age, as we are afforded broadening control over nuanced and previously opaque matters of our minds, bodies, and the rigors we submit them to, a great amount of ink has been spilled […]
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Batman (NES, 1989)
For my money, modest as it is, I don’t think there’s even been an inherently riskier bet as a video game consumer than a movie-licensed release. This is not to say that it’s impossible for a […]
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Kirby’s Adventure (NES, 1993)
The evolution of the platformer, back in the halcyon days of the NES, was a curious process to behold for a youngster. Thanks to my year of birth (1986), it often felt as if the […]
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Friday The 13th (NES, 1989)
As far as bad luck and ill-fate are concerned, there’s no point in resorting to trifling superstitions and numerology. Life is, in fact, less ordered and therefore more alarming than many spiritualist...
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The Adventures of Lolo (NES, 1989)
In the early days of console video gaming, there seemed to be little embarrassment at exploiting broad, rote story arcs in service of a few hours of electronic soothing. Nintendo, in particular, has...
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Harvest Moon (1997, SNES)
When I was young, about eleven years old, it was a lot easier to get excited about the pending release of a new game. This was 1997 – I had internet access, though of a […]
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Cabal (NES, 1989)
Back in those days gone by, it was very rare that a video game offered a simultaneous experience for a friend and myself that felt at all gratifying. I found, at that age, that I […]
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Darkman (NES, 1991)
A brief digression from my usual game-based prattle, right off the top. If I were to ask you to name your favorite film about a masked protagonist, face hideously disfigured and burnt, mounting a...
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DuckTales (NES, 1989)
When I was but a child of three, I received the first video game console I’d ever owned. A drab gray box gifted to me by my grandmother, herself completely clueless as to what a […]
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Mister Christopher’s Year In Review: The Top Ten of 1992
Welcome, one and all, to Mister Christopher’s Video Machine Year In Review for 1992! It was truly a big year for video gaming, a great year for me personally writing on the games of yesteryear for […]
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The Legend of Zelda (NES, 1986)
In my last writing in this space, a year’s end retrospective of the best games of 1992, I hailed The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past as both the best game ever produced […]
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors (1993, SNES/Genesis)
Since the turn of the millennium, there’s been a highly visible and, depending on how your pecking order of horror critters shakes out, tiresome glut of zombie-related media. I know this personally,...
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R.B.I. Baseball (1987, NES)
Lo, here we are, on the precipice of winter’s end; the burgeoning hope of spring, and a warm, glowing summer stretching lavishly beneath us. That would be a good way for me to introduce this […]
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E.V.O.: Search For Eden (SNES, 1993)
How do you think the world began and flourished? I’m not asking about the universe, to be clear, just our particular corner of the void. In varying fields of research, this question has been tackled […]
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夢ペンギン物語 — Penguin Dream Story (Famicom, 1991)
This last Christmas, my younger brother (who also happens to be the chief proprietor of this website) schemed a clever idea for his Christmas wish-list, which would ultimately come to involve me to a...
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Super Ghouls’n Ghosts (SNES, 1991)
I’ve recently been playing a bunch of old games (this statement being equally appropriate to introduce anything I’ve written here), as a means of casual fun and time passing, with a couple of friends...
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Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! (NES, 1987)
One of the joys of writing this review column is that it’s essentially a “whatever you want” sort of gig — you can’t make new old games, after all. As such, I’m afforded the luxury […]
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Super Baseball 2020 (SNES, 1991)
When I was a very young child, I was sharply and steadfastly geared in one direction when it came to games of entertainment, and the direction was decidedly non-athletic. Not that I disliked the...
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Live a Live (Super Famicom, 1994)
Some days ago, I happened upon an article about the making of Final Fantasy VI which was tweeted out by the editor-in-chief of this fine blog, and it was a pretty interesting read. It didn’t explicitly...
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