retrospective

I've been doing this for awhile now, and I've unfortunately gotten a pretty good nose now for sniffing out the quality of Marvel games just by the general look of ‘em. Looking at the four games before us today in this article, my ‘middling game’ sense is a tingle. We have two games that are...

Once again, for the fifth time, we are on the dawning of a new age; a new epoch, and a new console of cape**** of the Marvel persuasion to play through. We’ve gone through the primitive 8-bit home consoles, the even more primitive 8-bit handhelds, the arcade games (hell yeah), and finished the...

16-bit Marvel games, the final frontier. These are the last games that closed out this historic era of gaming. Part One and Part Two have been a very interesting ride score wise, as we have had some of the greatest licensed Marvel games along with one of the worst and, as the joke that keeps on...

Once again we dive into the sea of 16-bit licensed Marvel games in part two of our journey. We’ve covered the early 8-bit world, the time of the ancient third gen handhelds, almost all wondrous arcade games, and the first 5 of the 16-bit games. Last time we covered what turned out to be the real...

Chrono Trigger: The Dream Team slam dunks a JRPG gem. The JRPG dream team. Who cares about basketballs when you have 3 video game MVPs? Akira Toriyama (left, RIP), Yuji Horii (top right), Hironobu Sakaguchi (lower right). After a long hiatus, the Squaresoft retrospective is back! I took a...

Well, folks, it’s time for another retro gaming session! This evening started on a bit of a rough note due to some not-so-great news, and honestly, it was hard to focus at first. But retro games are like a warm blanket for the soul, so we decided to go ahead with our plan and dedicate the night...

Hi! Haven't posted or been posting on any forum sites for like almost 12 years now? I've been an active member of forum sites before (Otaku streamers, animax-asia, anime planet etc). Due to the growth of social media platforms, forum sites has almost been inactive. BUT, as we all know, social...

I remember the first time I became aware of the existence of the whole Dungeons and Dragons concept. One of my uncles was a bit of a nerd and had a bunch of cool stuff in his library. Star Wars novels, Star Trek memorabilia, sketches, fan art of fantasy characters, you name it. A smorgasbord of...

The gaming industry has grown into one of the most influential cultural forces in the world, but beneath its glittering surface lies a growing threat. The danger isn’t just about market saturation or the rising costs of game development. It’s about something more fundamental: the loss of our...

We’re back again, and primed for some Marvel goodness. I’m chipper, excited, maybe even ‘giddy’. Why? It’s time for the arcade era, baby. This was nothing but bangers, absolute units of quality. Just from thinking about this next set, I haven’t even had a single recurring nightmare spiral of...

We’re back with the next batch of 6 early handheld Marvel games in this ongoing series. I've seen some dark, nebulous pits of bad quality control already- from the consistently always terrible Captain America and the Avengers to the not so ‘amazing’ Amazing Spider-Man trilogy on the Game Boy...

When I was planning out the handhelds I came to realize I just missed out on the Nintendo DS, which is considered being in the seventh generation having first debuted in November of 2004. Curious, I decided to look up how many Marvel games came out on that console. I remember a Marvel Nemesis...

It’s time to finish the 8-bit generation of Marvel games. Some of you may have even read the first article (https://retrogametalk.com/threads/marvel-games-in-the-third-generation-part-one.53/) and I know you’ve been chomping at the bit to see the epic conclusion to these games of the utmost...

Like every child of the 90’s obsessed with superheroes, I would routinely browse the shelves at my local Canadian Blockbuster or local game store, ‘GAMES- BUY, SELL, TRADE’ (seriously, that place was great despite not having a name) and often I would be searching for something specific. A bounty...