SNES

Every retro library hides at least one sports title that feels like it arrived from a parallel universe, recognisably “football,” yet wired together with quirks no FIFA or Pro Evo committee would dare ship. On the Super Nintendo that honour belongs to World League Soccer, a cartridge Mindscape released in North America in April 1992 (Japan had […]

Some games age like wine, a few age like milk, and then there’s Pit-Fighter on the Super Nintendo, a bruiser that ages like a forgotten gym sock: questionable aroma, oddly nostalgic if you were there, and somehow still useful when you need a quick laugh. Is it a misunderstood relic or an archetype of “so-bad-it’s-good” brawling? Both, but only

The 16-bit wrestling boom was a lawless carnival of Lycra and latent glitchery. In June 1993, LJN’s WWF Royal Rumble somersaulted onto the Super Nintendo promising 16 megabits, twelve superstars, and the first console Battle Royal that could crowd six beefcakes on screen without turning the framerate into confetti. Classic or clunker? Depends on whether you grade

There’s a special corner of the ’90s game-scape where pastel dinosaurs moonlight as ballistics engineers and basic trigonometry masquerades as Saturday-morning candy. Welcome to Bust-a-Move on the Super Nintendo, the cartridge that taught an entire generation how to eyeball 45-degree bank shots long before they could spell “isosceles.” How weird is it that two knee-high dragons,

Is World Heroes 2 for the Super Nintendo a mere footnote in the 16-bit arms race, or a lost Rosetta Stone that proves fighting games could be both impeccably weird and mechanically sharp? (Rhetorical, of course it’s both. And neither. Schrödinger’s Cartridge, baby.) Picture a Viking who sneezes icebergs at a Muay Thai legend, while a spectral pirate