Top Games

Look, I know what you are thinking: boxing on a 16-bit console, in a living room lit by the bluish glow of a CRT and the existential dread of rent due, is either a classic microgenre or a strange regional cult ritual. I vote both. In my book, Genesis boxing is an odd little treasure […]

I am old enough to remember when cartridges smelled like burnt plastic and victory, and young enough to still get misty-eyed over a looping FM tune that sounds like someone composing a symphony in a blender. So yes, I will rank the best action-adventure games on the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive), and yes, I will

I have to confess something up front, because honesty looks good on the internet and on me, a tired 1979-born game critic who still hears the Genesis power-up chime in his sleep: this category is a deliciously weird intersection, equal parts brilliant and a little bit criminally overlooked. Strategy on the Genesis, you say? Yes,

I write about games for a living, and I grew up in the warm, buzzing glow of a CRT that thought it was a window to another world. I am a shooter addict, guilty as charged, and I will confess right now, in the only way this genre allows, with a flourish and a loss

I am old enough to remember when the Sega Genesis, the Mega Drive for the people with taste and better accents, was a living room saboteur of productivity, and I say this with the conspiratorial grin of someone who still hides a cartridge in a sock drawer (why do I have it? Nobody’s business, except