Despite taking place in the distant year of 20XX, Mega Man and I go way back. In fact, ever since my first mechanical steps as a bionic busting botling, I’ve been positively obsessed with the titular Man of Mega. I played all his games, bought most the action figures and…

I’ll never forget the sense of awe and wonder felt when first booting up Secret of Mana’s superpowered cart back in 1993. Instead of being greeted by the electronic blips and pleasant pings I’d long been accustomed to, my senses were sullied by a deep, ominous bellow of a dying…

Every once and awhile, a game comes out that absolutely pushes a console to its limits. It might be difficult in this age of stunning high definition 3D graphics and surround sound to look at a game like Star Fox and see something extraordinary, but all the way back in…

  When it comes to series outside of Nintendo’s own collection of classics, there’s none I’ve spent more time on than Street Fighter. This is the game that made me love fighting games and it’s managed to maintain a presence in the world for 30 years now. While most will…

  I’m a comparatively young whelp on the Nintendo Wire team — while many of my cohorts grew up with the old 2D NES and SNES eras, most of my youth was spent on the GameCube, which means I didn’t really touch retro games until I entered my teen years….

  Time and time again, with each new entry in The Legend of Zelda series, fans reminisce about their start into the franchise. Depending on when you picked up a controller or handheld during your journey as a gamer, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past might have…

  Back in a time when muscular men boasting buzz cuts and bazookas rained a hellfire of bullets down upon arcades, there was one testosterone-infused series that stood defiantly atop the trash heap of battered meat carcasses and crushed skulls left in its wake. Part Aliens, part Terminator, and featuring…