I’m about to get personal for a minute, but I promise it is relevant. Decades ago, my family moved to a tiny village in Ontario — it was in the middle of nowhere, it covered less than a square kilometre of land and the population was only a few hundred. With nothing else to do after school, I would lock…
Tetris Forever is, in one sense, not really a collection of games for Tetris fans. The game library includes multiple different versions of Tetris, which is more like a Tetris spin-off than actual Tetris. There are also three different versions of Hatris, which is categorically not Tetris at all. There’s…
Tetris Forever is, according to the developer, “a love letter to the…
For those wanting to relive Tetris’ whopping 40-year history, Tetris Forever is…
Gaming history is important – if you don’t think so, you’re reading the wrong site, I fear – but all too often, collections of important gaming archives boil down largely just to dull lists of simply emulated games, robbing them of their all-important context. It’s the cultural equivalent of displaying…
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When I think back to my early efforts in game criticism, things get a bit hazy (I’ve reviewed thousands of games since, give me a break), but I’m pretty sure that La Pucelle, on the PlayStation 2, was the very first JRPG I was ever given the opportunity to review.…
Read MoreTaito Milestones is undeniably cynical. The publishers have the gall to claim that it is a compilation of some of Taito’s most important historical work, and yet there are some absolutely massive, glaring omissions in the library. More than that, though, it’s disappointing that one of the best retro arcade…
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