When Retro Rick started his YouTube channel, it was a side hustle, mostly reviewing retro games. He then saw other people on YouTube were making videos of hunting for retro nostalgic items at garage sales and flea markets. Once Retro…

By 2023, one YouTuber named Paraspectre has become known for his Pokemon Trading Card Game challenges on Game Boy Color and his Pokemon video game retrospectives, But, his channel started with a 007 James Bond games retrospective series. While the…

Back in the days of Windows 95, PC baseball video games were just starting to come into their own as something more than a simple spin-off of the console versions. As a kid, I wasn’t even that avid of a…

When Smoliv was one of the first new Pokemon revealed for Scarlet and Violet, one monster that came up for comparison often was Sawsbuck, the only other dual Normal/Grass type in the entire Pokemon franchise. While even by late October…

Raptor: Call of the Shadows was one of my favorite PC games growing up. It was a top-down vertical scrolling shooter by Apogee Software & Cygnus Studios from 1994, running on DOS. It’s similar to another classic shooter PC game…

Moraff’s World was an obscure, yet classic PC role-playing game developed by Steve Moraff and first released in 1991 for DOS. It was a follow-up to a very basic dungeon crawler called Moraff’s Revenge in 1988. The version of Moraff’s…

While I’m certainly not as down on Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (aka BDSP) as it seems so much of the Pocket Monster fandom is, I’m rather surprised that the 2021 titles combined to win two Japan Game Awards….