A new Legend of Zelda hits the Switch this week, but Link’s Awakening still invites players to its shores today.
Game Boy
On this Link’s Awakening podcast, all the elegance, wistfulness, whimsy, sadness, loneliness, and haunting qualities of the 4th Zelda.
Remember Tower of Heaven? If not, this short and sweet review is the push you need to check out this short and sweet game.
Final Fantasy Adventure accomplishes quite a lot with its limited resources, platform, and translation. Revisit the first Mana game with me.
What’s old is new again in this RPG adventure that can be played on classic hardware. Dragonborne is a brand new NEW Game Boy game!
How does the Super Mario franchise handle a mash-up between traditional RPG elements and golfing sports game? How does Arcade Mage remember it?
Game & Watch Gallery (GB) joins the Super Mario Multiverse for MAR10, 2020: celebrating the history, inspiration, imagination, and joy of Super Mario!
Dr. Mario (NES/GB) joins the Super Mario Multiverse for MAR10, 2020: celebrating the history, inspiration, imagination, and joy of Super Mario!
Donkey Kong (Game Boy) joins the Super Mario Multiverse for MAR10, 2020: celebrating the history, inspiration, imagination, and joy of Super Mario!
Mario’s Picross (Game Boy) joins the Super Mario Multiverse for MAR10, 2020: celebrating the history, inspiration, imagination, and joy of Super Mario!
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (GB) joins the Super Mario Multiverse for MAR10, 2020: celebrating the history, inspiration, imagination, and joy of Super Mario!
It’s sometimes risky to reimagine a classic.
When I was a kid, growing up on three acres of land in the middle of the Hawaiian rainforest on an electric generator, I didn’t have many video games and I didn’t get to play them as frequently as I can now. This is more than I deserve.
Here’s an interesting thought-experiment: think about British-developed computer games from the 1980s. Which games do you instantly think of?
If you don’t like peas, it is probably because you have not had them fresh.
-Lemony Snicket
Kirby’s Dream Land shows its age in many ways but it marked the first outing of Sakurai’s pink (or white) puffball hero.
“Mr. Gorbachev… let my people go.”
-Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
“Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you’re O.K.
Money, it’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a football team”
-Pink Floyd
“I saw the traveller make his way toward the monolith, that thin gash amidst the clouds; an open seam between heaven and earth that eluded the eye of God.”
-Journal of an unknown traveller
“I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the fingernail that scrapes the blackboard of your soul.” -DW
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” –William Shakespeare
