Review by Matt S. Square Enix was quite strategic about the release timing of Collection of SaGa Final Fantasy Legend. The company released this late into the year so they can pick up some easy cash from the nostalgic with what is a very cheap retro collection, without too much…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. On the one hand, the Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection brings three of the greatest examples of the 3D platformer to the Nintendo Switch. Mario 64, alone, is such a monstrously influential, powerful, important game that it will be found in the art galleries of the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Competition around the “retro compilation” space has become surprisingly fierce. It’s no longer enough to simply drop emulations of a handful of random arcade titles from the backlog and call it a day. As the likes of Capcom, Konami and SNK have shown, players are really…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The latest compilations of classic games to land on our consoles comes from Namco, the makers of some of the most beloved retro classics of all. As you’ll see, these packages (there are two volumes) show an impressive range and even some treasures that we haven’t…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Space Invaders is my game. In fact, were it not for Space Invaders I may have never become so invested in video games as I am today (though the jury’s out on whether that’s a good thing or not). I had played other games before Space…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Set one-hundred years after the events of Mega Man X6, Zero is awakened by a scientist named Ciel in order to help save a group of reploids from being “retired” by the current tyrant… none other than the once hero, Mega Man X. Running away from…
Read MoreReview by Priscilla M. Spyro Reignited Trilogy has been released on the Nintendo Switch in September 2019. This is over twenty years past the release of the original games on the PlayStation One. Developer, Toys for Bob, clearly considered this a labour of love and as a result has given…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. By the numbers, the Collection of Mana that Square Enix dropped on our Nintendo Switches as part of the E3 festivities last week is one of the most limited “retro packs” of all. Street Fighter had a dozen or so games, the SNK collection even more,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I bought Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection – a compilation of some of Konami’s classic arcade releases (circa 1981 though 1988) for one game alone: Haunted Castle. The arcade take on Castlevania is brutal, brilliant, and an absolute masterpiece of classic arcade platforming action. Sadly, as good…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. In the long run, Nintendo’s decision to bottleneck the Switch’s Virtual Console to three or four NES games per month did have its benefits. While the Wii and 3DS leveraged third-party Virtual Console titles to bridge gaps between first party releases, the Nintendo Switch has the…
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