Suicide Guy (PC)
In the film Inception, characters are able to enter deeper and deeper layers of dreams as they seek to either
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Asteroids (Arcade)
While releasing in 1979 does make Asteroids one of the earliest well known video games ever made, it always felt
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Just Dance (Wii)
Just Dance may just be the most prolific series on Nintendo’s Wii console, producing multiple spin-offs and yearly installments well
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Fix-It Felix Jr. (Arcade)
The 2012 animated feature Wreck-It Ralph featured many loving homages to classic gaming and cameos from major characters from video
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Pirates PlundArrr (Wii)
Sometimes you just want to turn your brain off for a bit and revel in the mindless violence of a
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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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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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