Retro Reviews

Developed by Konami and created by Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear blends action and adventure games with stealth elements to tell a story about a special forces unit named FOXHOUND and…

The arcade classic twin-stick shooter created by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar Robotron: 2084 has the player fight off waves of robot enemies as they move around trying to rescue…

Developed by Konami and created by Hitoshi Akamatsu and Akihiko Nagata, Castlevania for the NES was an action platformer whose layout and mechanics helped spawn a subgenre of games called…

Developed and published by Konami and designed by Shigeharu Umezaki, Contra was originally an arcade game designed by Koji Hiroshita before being reimagined for the NES and Home Computer. It…

One of the launch titles for the original Gameboy, Super Mario Land, developed by Nintendo R&D1 with producer Gunpei Yokoi and designed by Hirofumi Matsuoka, was the first main mario…

Developed by the legendary Nintendo R&D4 and Shigeru Miyamoto, Super Mario Bros is a masterclass in creating an engaging 2D platformer. Scored by Koji Kondo the entire experience helped cement…

Designed by David Crane for the Atari 2600, Pitfall! was an early example of a platformer where the player had to navigate enemies and environmental hazards to score as many…

Developed by Capcom and designed by Tokuro Fujiwara, Commando was a vertically scrolling run and gun action game originally created for Arcades, but eventually finding its way into home consoles…

Designed by a super team of Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy), Akira Toriyama (Dragonball Z), and Yuji Horii (Dragon Quest), with composer Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) Square's Chrono Trigger is considered…

A real time strategy game for DOS developed by Patrick Wyatt and Blizzard Entertainment. Taking inspiration from early real time strategy games like Utopia and Dune II, Warcraft's unique fantasy…