Dig Dug (Arcade)
Pac-Man, Galaga, and Dig Dug. These three are practically the holy trinity of Namco’s early arcade offerings, often cropping up
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Consoles
Quality Time: Banjo-Kazooie (N64)
It’s very rare you can find a game that perfectly encapsulates the appeal of its genre. Sure, you can usually
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The Simpsons (Arcade)
When you ask people what the best old school beat ’em ups of all time are, you wouldn’t be too
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Pokémon Dash (DS)
The Pokémon series is brimming with potential for a racing game. So many of its weird and wonderful creatures are
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King and Balloon (Arcade)
If you had a winning formula for a video game, how often would you recycle it? And in those reuses
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Pressure Cooker (Atari 2600)
Cooking can be a delicate process in real life, the quality of a dish easily impacted by how long something
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Hat Trick (Arcade)
The rules and structure we apply to sports are what give these tests of physical skill their appeal, for without
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Beautiful Katamari (Xbox 360)
As Microsoft continues to take great efforts to make the Xbox back catalog available on the Xbox One and other
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Qix (Arcade)
Visualizing progress well goes a long way towards making a game feel satisfying, and for many of the early arcade
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Yoshi’s Crafted World (Switch)
With Yoshi’s Woolly World, developer Good-Feel took Yoshi’s platforming adventures to a world made of yarn where the cloth aesthetic
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Tokyo Tattoo Girls (PS Vita)
While there is definitely nothing wrong with focusing heavily on appealing character designs for a title, Tokyo Tattoo Girls puts
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12 Games of Christmas: Xmas Shooting – Scramble!! (PC)
The shoot ’em up subgenre known as bullet hell is certainly a niche one, the screen getting crowded with deadly
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12 Games of Christmas: Christmas Adventure of Rocket Penguin (Wii U)
It seems at some point penguins managed to work their way into Christmas iconography despite having no true connection to
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12 Games of Christmas: Santa’s Workshop (PC)
The box-pushing puzzle is quite common in video games, from a side activity in a more action focused game to
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12 Games of Christmas: Disney’s A Christmas Carol (DS)
A Christmas Carol has been adapted to film so many times before that you pretty much need some twist or
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12 Games of Christmas: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (GBA)
While perhaps not a modern Christmas classic like the film Elf, The Santa Clause is well known and follows a
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12 Games of Christmas: Elf Bowling (PC)
Elf Bowling is perhaps the most famous Christmas-themed video game of all time, and that all comes down to it
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12 Games of Christmas: Who’s Your Santa!? (PC)
Christmas is a holiday about peace on Earth and good will toward men, but comedy will latch onto whatever it
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12 Games of Christmas: Elf: The Movie (GBA)
Many Christmas classics, both in music and in film, seem to have come from before the 80s, so it’s always
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12 Games of Christmas: The Grinch (Game Boy Color)
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas lends itself quite easily to a video game adaptation. The player can delight
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12 Games of Christmas: Stop Santa – Tower Defense (PC)
The tower defense genre is one of the easier game formats to design a decent game for. All you need
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