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Gamest Ten Year Best Selection

Before Arcadia, Gamest was Japan’s leading arcade-game magazine, back when people still went to arcades. In 1996 they did a…

I don’t know where I got the impression that this game was a good one. Perhaps I thought, you know,…

Konami’s Castlevania is an unusual series. For the longest time it was a consistently poor seller in its native Japan,…

It’s not well known that Hudson, the game developer, created the chips that powered NEC’s TurboGrafx-16 console. After an astonishing…

In just about every game ever made scores, instructions, alerts, and the gentle invitation to insert some currency and play…

Korea hates Japan, but they do love making money off their stuff. Korean companies released several Japanese consoles, including most…

The Neo Geo CD pad is typical SNK: it’s strong, impact-resistant, supremely comfortable and utterly unique in its manufacture. It’s…

I’ve never really been comfortable with modern game thinking. A lot of people I know subscribe to this idea that…

The problem with Geometry Wars 3 is that it tries too hard to be better, without understanding what made the…

The nineties were a time of weird and wonderful experimentation in Japan. Flush with bubble-era cash and without a clear…