
Game Review: GoldenEye 007
As one of the world’s earliest first-person shoot games, GoldenEye 007 is a game developed by Rare and published in 1997 for the Nintendo...

Game Review: Metroid
My review is about the first Metroid. Metroid is a renowned science fiction game series by Nintendo that has had a huge impact on game...

Game Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
My retro game of choice was the 1992 classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time. Developed and published by Konami and...

Retro Game Review: Contra (1988)
If you’ve never played Contra, you may have spotted it atop a dubious IGN list of the toughest games ever or just recognize the infamous...

Game Review: Super Punch Out!! (1994)
Released in its original form in 1983, Punch Out!! is recognized as one of Nintendo’s more prominent sports games, spanning a legacy of...
Game Review: Harvest Moon (1997)
A truly tremendous game... if you have time for it.

Retro Game Review: Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (1994)
Released first in Japan for the Game Boy in 1994 following two Super Mario Land games, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 shifts the gamer’s...
Game Review: Sonic Adventure
Being the first game that showed our blue-spiked protagonist in a three-dimensional form, Sega’s Sonic Adventure (1998) was a...

Game Review: Fallout 2
Liben Hagos Review of Fallout 2 Shooting tiny nuclear bombs from a hand-held catapult at giant crabs while you listen to bangin’ tunes...

Game Review: Super Ghouls and Ghost
In today’s era of video game reviews we hear the phrase “the Dark Souls of [insert genre]”. Most of the time this claim seems to be...
Game Review: The Original Donkey Kong
#retroreview Most people are fairly familiar with the character of Donkey Kong– he is a large gorilla, famous for being a part of the...

Game Review: Banjo Kazooie
In a previous blog post, Allen Liu analyzed how a completionist might toil away at Braid only to be disappointed with the lack of “a...

Game Review: Kirby's Dreamland 3
In Kirby’s Dreamland 3 (1997), the plot starts with Kirby and Gooey fishing on Planet Popstar when, all of a sudden, a large, ominous...

Game Review: Star Fox 64 (1997)
Star Fox 64 was released in 1997 to critical acclaim. Nintendo received high praise for the gameplay, as well as the tidy narrative and...
Game Review: Kirby's Dreamland 3
Kirby’s Dream Land 3 is a seemingly linear platformer, where you play as the main protagonist, Kirby, and use various allies to pass a...
Game Review: Space Invaders
Tomohiro Nishikado’s Space Invaders (1978), a renowned retro arcade game, is said by some to have revolutionized video games, with its...

Game Review: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, A Link to the Past is the third entry in the Legend of Zelda series....
Game Review: Ms. Pac-Man
Released first for arcades in May of 1980 in Japan, Namco’s new game Pac-Man quickly rose in popularity over the course of its first...





















