Retro

Finally, the answer to the question “Do you have Battletoads?” is an emphatic “Yes!”, at least if you have an Xbox One (or PC) and subscribe to Gamepass (which…c’mon man. If you’ve got an Xbox One, you should have Gamepass).   Anywho: 26 years after the franchise last appeared in the arcades, and 27 years after the last console release, the Battletoads have returned to kick some tail. The game tries to be a lot of different things, and mostly…

What do you get when you create a game with one part Mega Man, one part Castlevania, and one part Shovel Knight? You might get Panzar Paladin for the Nintendo Switch. But does Panzar Paladin live up to those games or should you hop into your mech and download a different game? Panzar Paladin is a 2D action/platformer in the vain of Mega Man, Castlevania, and Shovel Knight. In fact, it does borrow some mechanics from each of those games.…

Donkey Kong Country is on the Nintendo Switch Online Service now (via the SNES app) and so I thought it was finally time to talk about the game. What’s it like playing DKC again? What’s my best memory of the game? When I was much younger, during the SNES era, I was a huge fan of Donkey Kong Country. The first game in the series. I never did play the second or third one back then (still haven’t played the…

Lego is making a Nintendo Entertainment System Set! Check out a video and the details about it below. According to the Nintendo of America twitter, “Bring the pixels to life with the #LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System set! Assemble your own console and retro TV, then turn the crank to make 8-bit Mario move across the screen! Add your LEGO Mario figure for even more fun!” I think this set looks really cool! I wish I didn’t suck at putting Lego…

Paper Mario: The Origami King will be coming out very soon (July 17th) and so I thought I’d take a look back at previous Paper Mario games. Here they are: the good, the bad, and the ugly… The newest Paper Mario game will be coming out soon. So its time to take a look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly of the series. Let’s start at the beginning… Paper Mario: Debuting on the Nintendo 64, this game…

I metioned that PDP recently sent me some stuff in the mail recently. One of the things that they sent me was a Pixel Pal Luigi. Let’s take a look at it! Pixel Pal is a collectable item and looks really excellent on any gamers shelf. The Pixel Pal that I got was: 8-Bit Luigi – #10 – Nintendo – Collector’s Edition Its still the year of Luigi! I had to have this figure. Luigi just doesn’t get enough love.…

Recently, thanks to our partners at PDP, I received a big package in the mail. Apart of that package was three Nintendo Switch carrying cases! Today I’ll take a look at them and let you what I thought of them. Premium Console Case Zelda I am a huge fan of Breath of the Wild. So I really love this case. The Link graphic with his bow on front is fantastic. I also love the logo all in gold in the…

I was a Nintendo kid growing up, so I didn’t play very many Sega games. I played Sonic, everybody played Sonic, but not many of the other games. Over the years, I have played a few more Sega games, like Beyond Oasis and recently the first Phantasy Star, but there are still a lot of Sega games I haven’t played. Recently, I decided to get the Sega Genesis Classics collection for Nintendo Switch (helped that it was on sale). What…

Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 and 2 are two separate games but because they have a lot of similarities, I am doing a review for them both here. They will each have their own separate review score at the end of this article. Are Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 and 2 worth checking out? Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 is a collection of such games as Pac-man, Xevious, Mappy, and more! There are eleven titles in all. Pac-man Championship Edition,…

Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade is a collection of seven arcade Darius games! Are they as good as the console games? Let’s take a look in my review of Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade! Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade only contains seven games, while its console counterpart has nine. I’m going to make a bold statement though: the arcade collection is the better of the two games! Why is the Darius Arcade collection better? This collection has even more options than the console…