Fly through your underground world with the last Knight Witch in this strange mix of shoot-em-up and Metroidvania.
Shoot ’em Up
Relive your 90s arcade days with the original version of Raiden – see where the series got started with the Arcade Archives series!
Strap yourselves in and call up a couch co-op buddy cuz we’re reviewing a real blast from the past in Jackal for the NES!
Soldier Blade, the first TurboGrafx-16 game I’ve ever beaten. How did it compare to other TG-16 mini titles and other shmups like it?
How many non-Final Fantasy games can you name that were published by Square, developed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and composed by Nobuo Uematsu?
Super R-Type is brutal, flashy, explosive, everything that you’d expect from a space shoot ’em up from the 1990s!
Vectrex, Tim Skelly, and Armor Attack may not mean a whole lot to many millions today but learning more about this era of gaming with its ghostly vector lines can be fun.
This oceanic shmup can sate even the most earnest yearnings for exploration, but is there anything worth discovering in its simplicity?
It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I’ve outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I’m talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She’s fast enough for you, old man.
-Han Solo, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed – as those who take to the water change – and told me she had never died. Instead, she had gone to a spot her dead son had learned about, and had leaped to a realm whose wonders – destined for him as well – he had spurned with a smoking pistol. This was to be my realm, too – I could not escape it. I would never die, but would live with those who had lived since before man ever walked the earth.
-H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
Hi, NPCs, and welcome back for Day Five of our ongoing Elemental Challenge! Today…
“Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace.”
-General Douglas MacArthur
“I don’t particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I’m somewhat sceptical of the technology.”
-Christopher Nolan
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
― Neil Armstrong
Angry Birds, er… I mean Duck Hunt… was the game that no one wanted but everyone played, at least in North America.
“I have an idea for a movie called ‘The Walken Dead’ which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.”
-Robin Williams
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
