Tag Archives: Retro

Bubble Dragons Bub and Bob are back with engaging sequel that won’t burst your bubble but won’t bowl you over with inspiration, either.  Few games have a legacy as enduring as Bubble Bobble. Originally released by ...

With an affordable price and play that supports numerous playthroughs, Jetboard Joust is a satisfying, arcade-style shooter with roguelike elements. Don’t make the mistake of assuming Jetboard Joust is spiritual successor to 1982 arcade smash, ...

The grandfather of real-time strategy arrives on Switch with the typical M2 treatment. That means a pixel-perfect recreation of the original or if you wish, a number of indispensable modernizations. Sporadically, games are ahead of ...

As the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection demonstrated, the company once known as Shin Nihon Kikaku Corporation was an industry powerhouse. Beyond the two dozen arcade and console adaptations found on the anthology, SNK would later ...

Hellbound looks good and plays decently, but suffers from a dearth of weaponry and enemy types, two essentials of the first-person shooter genre. If you’re looking for a three-hour fix of retro fragging goodness, this ...

The Switch version of Starlit Adventures Golden Stars removes all the micro-transactions of the mobile release. The result allows the game’s retro-rooted play to shine, without all of the bothersome coercion and persistence to sign ...

Games don’t have to center around unremitting tension, Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town reminds us. A perfect companion piece to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Mineral Town’s agricultural affairs are wonderfully tranquil and have ...

Collectors might call them rarities, less fervent fans might call them filler, but there’s a bit of redundancy and at least one series omission in Taito’s latest compilation. But that shouldn’t stop shooter supporters from ...

Each of the two volumes of Namco Museum Archives offers a mix of arcade, NES-exclusive, and an original eight-bit ‘demake’. Many of the games are still great, but the museum’s interiors are a bit too ...

Beware retro adventurers: there’s more frustration that fun in Pity Pit. If you do jump into the economically priced title, expect short-lived enjoyment. As games like Dig Dug (1982), Boulder Dash (1984), Mr. Driller (1999), ...