Re:Retro

Adventure Island: Accessing the secret level

Three-year-old children will go to great lengths to make their parents do some preposterous activities. My three-year-old daughter, Cesky, is no different. Fortunately, today, she has chosen to...

Not-so-super Mario Brothers

No, I’m not talking about the game and the myriad video game sequels and spin offs it has spawned over the years. I’m talking about the movie … yeah, that 90s flick that...

Asteroids: It may be ancient but it’s still loads of fun

Is this what you’re talking about, Mike? I’m writing this post in reaction to shiny happy person (read: my boss) Mike’s comment on the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial article. Let me...

Do the Mario! Tried and tested tips and tricks

I envy today’s generation of video game players. Why? Well, it has something to do with having and eating cake. They not only have the latest and greatest video games ever produced by mankind,...

Do the Mario! Why not do the Luigi?

For some reason, when I woke up this morning, I had this burning desire to prep the ol’ Nintendo Family Computer and play Super Mario Brothers all day. Unfortunately, my eyes—and my fingers—had...

E.T. go home? I think not

No! Not another E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial bashing session! Oh, wait, I haven’t based E.T. in ages. Hmmm, come to think of it, I never bashed E.T. at all. This can be attributed to the fact...

Adventure Island: Ace your first attempt with these handy tips

The good thing about playing old video games is that you get to sift through a lot of FAQ sheets, tips and guides, and come up with solutions of your own to some gaming problems. Recently, I...

Total Annihilation: General strategies

I’m going to wrap up my Total Annihilation series (at least for the meantime) and focus on coming up with guides for older video games. I apologize for letting it drag on for about three days....

Total Annihilation: Beat the AI (and unsuspecting players) in five minutes

Whew! All that talk about real-time strategy games and Cavedog’s Total Annihilation got me so het up that I decided to dig up my old copy of the game and play it. And with the opening sequence...

Same country, (almost) same experiences

You realize that I’m talking about video games here, particularly old (and not-so-old) video games. I just took a partial survey 20 to 30-something friends about what video games they played as...