Retro Roulette #22: Track & Field (NES, 1987)
At last, a chance for one my favorite pastimes … *checks notes* … pressing A about…
Retro Roulette #21: Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes (N64, 1999)
War is hell. Weird, plastic-y hell. The Army Men series was created by The 3DO Company, a…
Retro Roulette #20: Friday the 13th (NES, 1989)
Holy crap, I’ve now done 20 of these! Thanks to everyone who has read one or…
Retro Roulette #19: Hoops (NES, 1989)
Who’s ready for some HOOPS?! One of my favorite weirdly specific old video game genres is “weird…
Retro Roulette #18: Gyruss (NES, 1989)
We’ve made our way back to the NES library! That’s always nice. This week, we’re talking…
Retro Roulette #17: Spider-Man 2 (Xbox, 2004)
Not all movie adaptations are created equal. Video games based on movies trend very strongly towards…
Retro Roulette #16: Pac-Man (Atari 2600, 1982)
Oh. Oh no. Oh dear god, no. In the early 1980s, Pac-Man was big. Really big. It was so…
Retro Roulette #15: Tekken 2 (PlayStation, 1996)
In early 1996 or thereabouts, I went on a middle school trip to Valleyfair, an amusement…
Retro Roulette #14: Guardian Heroes (Saturn, 1996)
HELL YES. Treasure, a company founded by a team of disgruntled former Konami employees, was one…
Retro Roulette #13: Def Jam: Fight for N.Y. (Xbox, 2004)
Ohhhhh yessssss, this is a good one. The Def Jam series debuted in 2003 with Vendetta, a…