Welcome to the first Retrograde Column for 2012! We ended last year talking about the marvelous Wonder boy series for Sega consoles. We covered a good variety of retro...
Welcome to the first Retrograde Column for 2012! We ended last year talking about the marvelous Wonder boy series for Sega consoles. We covered a good variety of retro...
TITLE: “Monster World IV” GENRE: Action/Platformer/RPG PLATFORM: Sega Mega Drive (Japan-only, 1994), PlayStation Network (2011), XBox Live Arcade (2011), and Wii Virtual Console (2011). RATING: Everyone ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE:...
EDITOR’S NOTE: I realize that somehow in the past few weeks we skipped over “Wonder Boy in Monster Land” (Sega Master System, 1987). This was not our intent and...
TITLE: “Wonder Boy III: Dragon’s Trap” DEVELOPER: Westone PUBLISHER: Sega PLATFORM: Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, and TurboGrafx-16 GENRE: Action/Platform/RPG RATING: Everyone ORIGINAL RELEASE YEAR: 1989 “Wonder Boy...
TITLE: Wonderboy DEVELOPER: Sega of America PUBLISHER: Weston Co, LTD GENRE: Action Platformer PLATFORM: Sega Master System RATING: Not Rated. RELEASE YEAR: 1986 This is side scrolling adventures of a caveboy fighting the...
The Wonder Boy series of games is certainly one that is highly underrated in video game history. This probably shouldn’t be surprising, however, as they heyday of the series...
TITLE: Shadowrun DEVELOPER: Bluesky Software, Inc PUBLISHER: Sega GENRE: Action/RPG PLATFORM: Sega Genesis RATING: MA-13 RELEASE DATES: 1994 When I first played Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis, I...
TITLE: “Shadowrun” DEVELOPER: Beam Software PUBLISHER: Data East GENRE: Action/RPG PLATFORM: Super Nintendo Entertainment System RATING: “Everyone” RELEASE DATES: May 1993 (North America); August 1993 (Europe); March 25, 1994...
This week on Retrograde we bring you a brief history of the Shadowrun series. Since AS will have retro reviews of both the SNES and Genes versions online today,...
Over the last month, Jessica and I have brought you an exploration of the early days of the Castlevania series. It has been a fun romp through the past,...
TITLE: Final Fantasy XIII-2
DEVELOPER: Square Enix
PUBLISHER: Square Enix
GENRE: Role Playing Game
PLATFORM: Playstation 3, XBox 360
RATING: Teen
RELEASE DATE: January 31st, 2012
So let's assume this edition to our beloved series is not…
Telltale Games and Robert Kirkman ( Eisner Award-winning creator/writer of The Walking Dead) have teamed up to bring us some zombie related hotness for your enjoyment. Firstly they've delivered up…
A recent conference call with ArenaNet and NCSoft has let slip a few more details about the upcoming MMORPG "Guild Wars 2."
Apparently, the game will be entering a more open…
TITLE: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
DEVELOPER: Bethesda Game Studios
PUBLISHER: Bethesda Softworks
GENRE: Action RolePlaying, Open World
PLATFORM: Windows PC, Playstation 3, XBox 360
RATING: Mature
PRICE: $59.00
RELEASE DATE: November 11, 2011
Bethesda’s now iconic game…
TITLE: "Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals"
DEVELOPERS: Neverland and SquareEnix
PUBLISHER: SquareEnix and Natsume
PLATFORM: Nintendo DS
GENRE: Action RPG
RATING: Everyone 10+
RELEASE DATE: October 12, 2010
The Lufia series of games may not be the…
TITLE: "Quarrel"
DEVELOPER: Denki
PUBLISHER: UTV Ignition
GENRE: Turn-Based Strategy & Word Game
PLATFORM: XBox 360 via XBox Live Arcade
RATING: Everyone
PRICE: 400 Microsoft Points ($5.00 USD)
RELEASE DATE: January 25, 2012
"Quarrel" is a unique game…
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