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Top Secrets The year is 1988, and Badds, an evil empire, has declared war against the Federal States of America. But that’s not all, the leader of the imperial army Generalissimo Killt plans to resurrect the empire’s long dead founder, Master-D. Why? Because the master is the only one who can...

Kids’ Stuff ATLUS Co., Ltd. makes video games for teenagers. No, I don’t just mean that they make video games about them. Their target audience has almost always been teenagers, especially ones going through high school. They have games like Persona, which are practically all about high school...

Square’s Final (Fantasy) Game The year was 1985 and Square Co., Ltd. was beginning to develop their most ambitious video game yet. They had insider knowledge from Nintendo that they would release a new add-on for their Famicom that greatly expanded the system’s possibilities, and Square wanted...

“To be this good takes AGES.” Quick ports are a classic tactic by publishers to make some extra dough from their properties. Sometimes, they call them remasters; sometimes, they are republished on the next console generation; and sometimes, they are just emulated copies of nostalgic titles. SEGA...

A Hydlide History Virtual Hydlide was released in 1995 and is the last game in the Hydlide series. There hasn’t been a game in the series since and people often blame that on this. Of course, that’s ignoring the history surrounding Hydlide and the company that made it. Hydlide is a bit of a...

Everyone Wants to be Part of a Club From around the beginning of the Wii’s life cycle until the death of the Wii U, Nintendo used to have a special service called Club Nintendo. It was a rewards system for all those loyal Nintendo fans to earn points, or coins as they were called, with every...

An Introduction Street Fighter II is one of the most popular fighting games of all time, with eight iterations and dozens of home computer and console ports. With such a massive selection of possible ways to play, there would inevitably be terrible versions. Fans often argue about how the...