Top 100 Retro Games: Streets of Rage II
Streets of Rage II Sega Genesis Sega 1992 #6 I never owned Streets of Rage II growing up, but I did play it a lot at a friend’s house. We had a friend in...
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Top 100 Retro Games: River City Ransom
River City Ransom Nintendo Entertainment System Technos 1989 #4 Of all the games I keep returning to over the years, perhaps the one that I do the most is River City Ransom. This is...
Top 100 Retro Games: Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Sony Playstation Konami 1997 #3 I actually did not play Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night all that much when it first came out…I knew about the game, but was...
Top 100 Retro Games: Legend of Zelda
Legend of Zelda Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo 1987 #2 Trying to describe how monumental Legend of Zelda was while growing up is very hard. We got an NES at Christmas 1988, which seemed to...
Top 100 Retro Games: Mega Man II
Mega Man II Nintendo Entertainment System Capcom 1989 #1 Like so many others, it seems, the Mega Man series came into my life when Mega Man II came out. Someone in my neighborhood did...
Top 100 Retro Games: Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego?
Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego Apple IIC Broderbund 1985 #71 The Carmen San Diego series was a big part of many people in and around my ages childhoods. The Edutainment genre...
Top 100 Retro Games: Shadowgate
Shadowgate Nintendo Entertainment System Kemco-Seika 1989 #38 Before I played Shadowgate on the NES, I had read about it in game magazines and seen the game on a friend’s Apple II system. The interface...
End Game Themes Mix
This is going to be our first mix episode in awhile. Our previous episode about Mega Man III got me thinking a lot about great end game themes. Mega Man III is fine, but...
16 Bit Stage Music Mix
This episode is about my favorite 16 bit stage music. A few of these loosely fit the definition of “stage,” but they are all awesome. When I began putting together outline for various episodes,...
Unranked: Strider
Strider Nintendo Entertainment System Capcom 1989 Unranked So, here is the thing with Strider. I was really baffled by this game when it came out on the NES in 1989. It came from Capcom,...
