Sega's (or maybe I should say Climax Entertainment's) Landstalker is one of a small handful of games that really defined the 16-bit...

Although I've been a fan of Sega's 16-bit console--the Genesis in North America, and the Mega Drive elsewhere--since it first came o...

Although I began the 16-bit generation favoring NEC's and Nintendo's machines over Sega's, that's not how I ended it. OK, ...

As you should have heard by now (I mentioned it in my very last post, after all), last Friday marked the 56th anniversary of Sega's exis...

Although the company that eventually became Sega first opened its doors 76 years ago (as Standard Games), it didn't change its moniker t...

How's this for a silly, game-related tidbit that's likely to shock at least a few of you: back when I was a junior or senior in high...

In my last post , I discussed a handful of PC Engine platformers that I think would be well worth playing as part of Anne "apricotsushi...

As much as I love many of Nintendo's games and systems, I'm no "Nintendo fanboy." After all, I also love many of Sony'...

You know what I'd do if my husband and I ever won the lottery? Well, besides retire and buy my family and closest friends anything they ...

Game: Escape Goat Genre: Platformer/Puzzler Developer: Magical Time Bean Publisher:   Magical Time Bean System: Xbox 360 R...

Sorry, I couldn't help myself while coming up with the headline above--which is my tongue-in-cheek take on the old chestnut that used to...

Those of you who read this post from yesterday afternoon will know that I recently discovered a bunch of game-related treasures while diggi...

Yesterday , I wrote about five retro games and systems--like Chack'n Pop for the Famicom and the Sega Game Gear--that I'm looking f...

I can't take credit for the quote that appears in the headline above, by the way. That honor belongs to NeoGAF user Fine Ham Abounds . ...

I mean, why is the NES in the t-shirt design seen below high-fiving a Genesis? Shouldn't the NES be high-fiving an SNES instead? I know ...

Actually, it arrived on Saturday, but since I rarely publish posts on the weekend this is the first chance I've had to say anything abou...

Shortly after publishing this post earlier this year, I went ahead and pre-ordered a copy of the homebrew Genesis/Mega Drive game, Pier Sol...

Artist Curtis Bathurst recently CC'd me on the following tweet: "When I was twelve, Earnest Evans was my 16-bit heartthrob....

That's what one person over on  neogaf.com is calling Pier Solar , a Genesis/Mega Drive RPG (recently) created by a team of coders that...

I know this probably seems like a silly and even stupid waste of time, but when has that stopped me in the past? Anyway, as the header abo...