Review: Final Fantasy IX (60 hours, PlayStation)

This game took me forever to beat, but not because of its difficulty. Basically, I owned it in my teenage … More

Review: Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto’s Rampage (10 hours, Game Boy Advance)

This is the final platforming game in the Crash Bandicoot series for Game Boy Advance. It’s more of a mini-game … More

Review: Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced (9 hours, Game Boy Advance)

I started playing the Crash Bandicoot games for Game Boy Advance because I was getting a little sick of Super … More

Special Feature: Improving the Graphics of an Old Game

Introduction There are a number of ways to make a retro video game look new again, though in truth, not … More

Review: Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (~12 hours, Game Boy Advance)

I thought I’d venture out of my comfort zone, and so I started playing Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure. In … More

Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II (~8 hours, PC)

Sonic 4: Episode II does a really good job addressing my concerns from the first episode. Yes, the character models … More

Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I (~7 hours, PC)

Sega did good with Sonic 4 in 2010 by reminding Sonic fans that they hadn’t forgotten the original Sonic games, … More

Review: Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure (~2 ½ hours, Neo Geo Pocket Color)

This is from quite a time in Sega’s history. It shows a willingness to be third-party a good while before … More

Review: Sonic the Hedgehog CD (~5 hours, PC)

Of all the Sonic the Hedgehog remakes done by the great Christian Whitehead in his Retro Engine, this is the … More

Review: Sonic 3 and Knuckles (7 hours, Sega Genesis)

It pains me slightly not to call this two games, because I remember Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic and … More