50 Years of Video Games: Soulcalibur (Dreamcast)
9/9/99 is a day remembered fondly by American Sega fans, as that was the day the ill-fated swan song of
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
50 Years of Video Games: Half-Life (PC)
Valve may be the biggest name in PC gaming thanks to the Steam storefront and launcher making purchasing and playing
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50 Years of Video Games: Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
Final Fantasy VII was a game changer not just for the series, not just for role-playing games, but for what
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50 Years of Video Games: Super Mario 64 (N64)
With the Nintendo 64 being pushed back to 1996, it ended up being a little late to the party of
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50 Years of Video Games: Tekken (PS1)
1995 was a huge year for 3D gaming. The Sega Saturn released to markets outside of Japan, the Nintendo 64
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50 Years of Video Games: Super Metroid (SNES)
While the exploration-focused platformers known as Metroidvanias derive their genre name from two different series, there’s one game they’re all
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50 Years of Video Games: Doom (PC)
With some games, their impact on history is simple enough to summarize, but 1993’s Doom is something else. PC games
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50 Years of Video Games: Mortal Kombat (Arcade)
Violence has been part of video games from the very beginning, but back when you were blowing up black and
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50 Years of Video Games: Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis/Mega Drive)
It’s a tale told often in the retro video game world. The dominance of Nintendo with its plumber mascot dressed
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50 Years of Video Games: Bonk’s Adventure (TurboGrafx-16)
By 1990, Nintendo’s NES had not only revitalized the home gaming market in the United States, it had comfortably asserted
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50 Years of Video Games: Tetris (Game Boy)
Tetris wasn’t first released in 1989, but its release on the Game Boy that year might have ended up being
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50 Years of Video Games: Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)
One of the most often repeated pieces of video game trivia is that the game America received under the name
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50 Years of Video Games: The Legend of Zelda (NES)
The Nintendo Entertainment System certainly isn’t lacking when it comes to groundbreaking titles, Nintendo kicking off many of their iconic
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50 Years of Video Games: Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Master System)
While Sega’s early years were defined by their arcade output, a slump in the market in the early 80s lead
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50 Years of Video Games: Excitebike (NES)
The North American video game market was in a rough spot between 1983 and 1985. A boom in the amount
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50 Years of Video Games: 1942 (Arcade)
1984 was a huge year for Capcom, primarily because that was the year they entered the video game market. Their
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50 Years of Video Games: Mario Bros. (Arcade)
While many people know of the 1983 Mario Bros. arcade game, primarily because Nintendo has constantly republished its NES port
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50 Years of Video Games: Pitfall! (Atari 2600)
I wasn’t always the guy who wanted to play every video game ever released. I was still pretty much willing
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50 Years of Video Games: Galaga (Arcade)
In 1981 Namco was riding high on the success of Pac-Man from the previous year, but Pac-Man was only the
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50 Years of Video Games: Pac-Man (Arcade)
Video games had been slowly finding their footing during the 1970s, but it was 1980 that would give the burgeoning
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50 Years of Video Games: Lunar Lander (Arcade)
In 1969, mankind took its first steps on the moon, and with video games rising in popularity fairly shortly after,
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