It’s time to return to the musty neon lairs of old for this Street…
SNES
It shouldn’t work. It shouldn’t be magic. You shouldn’t weep happy and then sad and…
Time to discuss the science of scary with my guest Mike from The Controller…
La langue n’est pas une fonction du sujet parlant, elle est le produit que l’individu…
Do you still want Virtual Console or is SNES Online enough?
Our first in a three-part series of Chrono Trigger podcasts features Brent the ABXY Mage and a talk on the game’s soundtrack.
First, a word or two about who these books are for. For you, probably, if you’re taking the time to wonder about this at all. And, if you’re feeling generous, maybe for your brother or sister who used to play 8-bit Super Mario and Final Fantasy games with you at your old house growing up.
A brand new series on TWRM: Retro Thunderdome pits two vintage games against one another, head to head, with only one surviving champion! This time it’s Mode 7 SNES sports games!
Super R-Type is brutal, flashy, explosive, everything that you’d expect from a space shoot ’em up from the 1990s!
Radical Dreamers may have just received an official translation, but fan translators have made the game accessible for years!
Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday reminds us that even on the mighty SNES, some memories are better off left buried.
Serialized specially for The Well-Red Mage, based on the podcast by Wesley Schantz
Serialized specially for The Well-Red Mage, based on the podcast by Wesley Schantz “The…
In this EarthBound episode, the idyllic vision of America, the death of innocence, the lost art of memorable NPCs, and more.
Videogames were for everyone; they just didn’t realize it yet.
-Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
The emptiness of the cave where once his sweet but pilfered potassium-ey treasures lay put a mirror against the howling vacuity of his gorilla longing, and so DK and Diddy embark on a quest fueled by the awesome rage of revenge.
I suspect that, like me, many of you were introduced to the Final Fantasy franchise through one of the main series, numbered titles. I am certain that when people talk about Final Fantasy Mystic Quest with less-than-favorable opinions, it is because they too had that same experience.
“We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.”
-Walter de La Mare
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
-Roald Dahl
Chrono Trigger magnum opus: addressing questions of interpretation, authorial intent, hype/nostalgia, if the GOAT really exists.
“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.”
-Dave Ramsey
Hey, listen, NPCs! Happy October and happy anniversary to the love of my life,…
No blogger is an island, NPCs! We help each other. We need each other. That’s…
“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes ofman.”
-Proverbs 27:20 [ESV]
A Link to the Past is often considered the best game in the entire Legend of Zelda series, but why? What makes this SNES title so good?
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ―Edmund Burke
“The suspense is terrible! …I hope it’ll last.”
-Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
