I’m playing through Mario Kart 7 with a ferocity I haven’t had with the series in some time. Part of that was for this review, but the other is because I’m actually enjoying Mario Kart once again. I’ve made it no secret over the past few years that I hate Mario Kart Wii. There was a...

The internet shut down again yesterday over some mammoth news. It finally happened… Shigeru Miyamoto is retiring…. except he’s not. No, Miyamoto is not retiring to the rocking chair to sit in that legendary garden of his to smoke the Pikmin pipe into his old age, but rather is retiring...

Since the 80s, Sega has been renowned for their musical legacy. The musical output of the publisher is nothing but classic, and they are by far among the top Japanese publishers when it comes to releasing their premiere works on soundtrack CD. However there has long been one glaring hole in their soundtrack...

When Super Mario 64 was released in 1996 for the Nintendo 64, it took Mario out of his flat screen roots and placed him squarely in the third dimension. What is rarely spoken of is all the things that were lost in the transition. Many of these things were staples of Mario’s identity. Gone was the joy...

I’m going to be honest. I’ve been a big Sonic fan since 1991. The Genesis classics were platforming perfection. I also enjoyed the Dreamcast years with Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, as well as Sonic Heroes. While none were perfect, each tried to capture the essence of a Sonic game. When Sega...

“Roolllliiinnnnggggg Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart!” For such an arcade classic, Daytona USA has a complicated history with consoles. For being the highest grossing arcade game of all time, you’d think it would be easy to port home. Sega tried to do it on Saturn in 1994, but the hardware couldn’t...

Disclaimer: I know nothing about MMA. I’m not even really a MMA fan (I’m a wrestling guy really), never paid for a pay-per-view event, and can’t think of any MMA fighter off the top of my head outside Brock Lesnar (who came form WWE), Kimbo Slice, and Gina Carano. But in reality, this...

We’ve had the Xbox 360 since 2005. Yes, it’s been that long. Somehow hard to imagine seeing as console generations traditionally have lasted far shorter spans of time, yet here we are. The 360 has managed to evolve through software updates that add new functionality and features throughout the...

1998 was the last truly great year of video games that were dedicated to solely the original 1977-1983 classic Star Wars Trilogy. The Phantom Menace would launch the next summer, and while you can debate the merits of the prequels until you’re blue in the face (I love them to death. Feel free to send...

Elevator Action is a classic 1983 arcade game from Taito that showed up right at the dawn of the great arcade crash, which pretty much decimated the industry from over-population. This has made Elevator Action one of the more obscure classics of the era. Since that day, it hasn’t seen a whole lot of...