Josh Wirtanen

N64 Games Were Ridiculously Expensive When They First Came Out

Sonic the Hedgehog for Game Gear Feels Like a Knockoff Flash Game

Ocarina of Time Could Have Been the Ugliest Zelda Game of All Time

Sonic Fan Remix Was Prettier Than Sonic 4

Jurassic Park for Sega CD Was the Best Jurassic Park Game You Never Heard Of

What Is Nonlinear Content?

One of the Highest Rated Video Games of 2013 Was a Re-release of a Remake

Super Mario 64 Is Not the Best Video Game of All Time (But Don’t Tell 1996 That)

Remember When Crash Bandicoot Was a Shill for Pizza Hut?

Was the Game Boy the First Gaming Console to Travel to Space?

Mega Man Boss Orders Make for Mediocre Punk Rock Lyrics

Cool Spot Had Some of the Best Music on the Sega Genesis

An Analysis of Pixel Gaming, or How I Learned to Love the Pixel

Link’s Awakening Was the Ultimate Battery Killer

The Contra Code: Konami’s “One Size Fits All” Approach to Cheat Codes

Remember When Parents Thought the Super NES Was a Marketing Scam?

The Sega CD Was Basically a $300 Sonic CD Machine

Pumpkin Online Is an MMORPG for the Harvest Moon Demographic

Have We Forgotten The New Games Journalism?

DuckTales Remastered Fulfills My Childhood Dream of Swimming in Scrooge’s Money Bin

Scrooge McDuck’s Cane Is One of the Best Weapons in Gaming History

Denny’s Atari Remix: Denny’s Reaches out to the Hungover Atari Demographic

This 90s Grunge Chiptune Mashup Is 8-Bit Nirvana

Strike Force Foxx Has No Aspirations to Be Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf

NES Cartridge Prices Are on the Rise, But That’s Not a Bad Thing

Portal, When Sped Up to 2,000%, Takes Less Than 4 Minutes

ToeJam & Earl Defines 90s Game Design in a Weird Yet Charming Way

Shovel Knight Is Mega Man Meets DuckTales

The DuckTales Moon Theme Is the Best Piece of 8-Bit Music Ever Written

D.C. Douglas and Jonathan Klein Explain Why Resident Evil 1’s Voice Acting Was Awful