Earlier this month, video game archivist Byuu stated that the USPS lost nearly $10,000 worth of rare Super Nintendo games when his package went missing and actually appeared to be stolen. One week later after the most recent developments, we have a happy ending to this story. According to Byuu, he was contacted by the USPS Consumer Affairs office after the widespread coverage of his...
A couple years ago, a keyboard was just a keyboard. You might get a few macro keys or some futuristic plastic styling around the edges, but underneath it all, keyboards were mostly the same. Now, we’re awash in a biblical-level flood of mechanical keyboards bearing a variety of different-colored switches, RGB LEDs, programmable functions, and more. PC component manufacturers known for...
A quarter of a century since the Super Nintendo has passed. Often cited as one of the most popular and beloved consoles in video game history, the Super Nintendo first hit the North American market on Aug. 24, 1991, and even after all this time, its allure still pulls in gamers from the youngest generation. Why is that? Well, I’m of the belief that there is just something really...
I can’t be the only one who still plays Super Nintendo games. If the NES brought video games to geeks everywhere, the SNES brought gaming to the mainstream. It’s highly regarded as the best system ever, home to some of the best games in the medium, including Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and others. The only inconvenience about playing the system today is...
Just last week, Nintendo announced the NES Classic, a microconsole with 30 built-in games ready to play. While you can’t add games to it, it’s packed with classics and looks like it’s going to be more than worth the $60 price tag. We’ve already talked about the games we wish were on the NES Classic, but we got started thinking – a SNES Classic has to be coming along, too, right? It...
I've been around the JRPG genre long enough to know what I like. Walking into the Peachtree City Microplay back in the mid-1990s and randomly renting a game titled Final Fantasy III forever altered the course of my gaming career. To this day, I am comfortable in saying that if I ever had to pick up gaming as a part time hobby to focus on kids, jobs, and other adult responsibilities, I...
The Legend of Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma has a lot of impressive games on his resume, namely every single Legend of Zelda game since Ocarina of Time. However, the game that put him on Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto’s radar was a fabulous little adventure title called Marvelous: Another Treasure Island. Fans have eagerly been wanting to play this game for two decades, and now they finally...
I was thinking about doing a typical Ron’s Retro Reviews for the fan-favorite Super Nintendo platformer, Legend of the Mystical Ninja. However, while pushing through it on this lazy, empty Golden Week afternoon, I noticed a whole wealth of subtle hints and jabs at local customs throughout the different regions of Japan our heroes travel to. Having lived in Japan for over 7 years now, I...
Never heard of the classic Super Nintendo game, Nightmare Busters? Well, that’s because it was never actually published after wrapping up development back in 1994. The game was unearthed in 2007, meaning it has been available on the emulation scene for quite some time. However, classic game rescuers Super Fighter Team and the original copyright owners have published their own...
While I certainly have not owned every game system ever released, I have at least played just about all of them. Seeing as I can actually remember when the Atari 2600 first came out, I figure I’m in a good position to name what I view as the five best game systems ever released. These are most definitely my personal choices – just to be completely clear on that – and I am sure there...