Back when flannel-wearing grunge rockers were lighting up the music scene, I remember browsing through the video game section at Video Maniacs — a local Blockbuster competitor in Reno — and seeing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Arguably one of the finest games of the 90s was the original ...

The mobile arena is subject to a high volume of retro ports. Sometimes, when a console or arcade favorite of yesteryear goes wireless, the result can be quite satisfying, such as in recent cases of ...

Some game series stand the test of time, seeing new, high quality releases every generation, sucking back in old fans while gaining new ones. However, for every Mario, Zelda, and Sonic, there are ...

ActRaiser, the classic Super NES god game, returns in ActRaiser Renaissance, an HD remaster that launches today on Nintendo Switch. Announced during the September Nintendo Direct, ActRaiser ...

Not speaking any Japanese, I was forced to wait until the North American edition of the game was released, at which point I promptly purchased a rather flimsy converter cartridge and booted it up on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Rebooting the original Actraiser is not exactly a straightforward ...

These two two distinct styles of gameplay were tied together with Yuzo Koshiro's fantastic soundtrack. The famed composer's music from the game and some unreleased pieces are getting a lovely vinyl re ...