It’s always interesting when a game tries to clone another game. This isn’t a new thing in the gaming industry, it’s been going on since the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision, probably earlier than that. Usually the result is a blatantly inferior derivative work. Sometimes they’ll do a slightly different take on a successful formula, […]

Ah, Saturn. I feel like we hardly knew you. As we all may know, the Wii U is due out soon, and there’s also rumblings about other new consoles on the way. It makes me look back at some of my older consoles that I’ve enjoyed very much. Some of them I think went before […]

Ys has always been one of my favorite game series. The series began in 1987 on the NEC PC-8801, and was later ported to literally over a dozen different consoles and computer systems, ranging from the NES and Apple IIGS to even the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS. Most of these contained subtle differences in […]