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…

  As a wee whipling, I remember being both enamored and terrified by Castlevania’s creepy crawlies and haunted halls. Sure, by today’s horror standards and advances in technology that may seem difficult to imagine, but I was tiny, the world was scary, and the simple idea of fending off some…

  Challenge in games can take many forms. Sometimes these come from the deliberate game design choices, sometimes they’re thematic flavor based on what story is present, and other times it’s because the developers just might secretly hate you. I have a strong feeling that the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series…

  There were only two games available on the Super Nintendo when it released in Japan, both of which are making their way to the SNES Classic. Super Mario World was undoubtedly the star of the show, supercharging an established series and eventually going on to become the best-selling game…