I realize that I spent a rather large amount of virtual space bemoaning the decline of the Japanese RPG and highlighting all the ways the genre is not a game at all, but, as I implied in that article, I
RETROSPECTIVE: Pirates! Gold
Long before Pirates of the Caribbean tapped into our collective pirate souls, there was a little game called Sid Meier’s Pirates!. Originally released in 1987 for the Commodore 64, the game was ported to eight different platforms over the ensuing
Video Game Music: Remixed, Reloaded, Redux
Once upon a time, five or six years ago, one of the websites I checked every day for updates was not a news site, a game review site, or a web comic but a web site dedicated to video game
Genre Breakdown: Steampunk
Introduction: As with many genres, the exact origin and nature of steampunk is open to debate. It is believed that the term was coined by author K. W. Jeter as a way to describe his own oeuvre as well as
RETROSPECTIVE: Bubble Bobble
Back when I was a wee tyke, no more than seven, there weren’t a lot of cooperative game options available to gamers. To give some sort of perspective, my childhood was back in the days of NES, so while I