I grew up in the era when the word “simulation” still meant “we put the scoreboard on the CRT and called it real,” and I will tell you in a conspiratorial whisper, the Sega Genesis hockey library is both classic and slightly insane. Classic because EA basically invented the template for console hockey – teams, […]

I will be blunt, because I am tired of spreadsheets pretending to have emotions: Sega Genesis football is one of those video game categories that is simultaneously essential and slightly ridiculous, like wearing a leather jacket to a PTA meeting. Classic? Yes. Underrated? Sometimes. Overrated in internet listicles? Also yes, because nostalgia will do things

I write about games the way a sleep-deprived archaeologist writes about pottery, with too many feelings and a suspiciously well-thumbed field guide. I was born in 1979, which means I played my first cartridge the same year my hair was still suspiciously voluminous and the word “pixel” sounded like a promise. So when someone asks

I have a confession, and if you are reading this you are either a fellow retro obsessive or someone who clicked a link at 2 a.m. because the algorithm knows you too well. I collect video-game wrong turns, the arcade curiosities where a pixelated elbow can feel decisive, and the Sega Genesis basketball library is

I have an embarrassing soft spot for belt-scrollers, which means you should probably distrust everything I say from paragraph two onward (I do, and I wrote it). Are Sega Genesis beat ’em ups classic, over-hyped, essential, or an oddly specific nostalgia trip for people who still own a cosmic toaster that only heats 8-bit bread?