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April 18, 2008 - For a system that tanked against the NES, the Sega Master System sure has some fans. After Tuesday's RetroCity podcast, I heard from a lot of listeners and readers that harbor nothing but good will toward Sega's 8-bit console. The Master System is also now on the Virtual Console, getting some long overdue love from gamers that may have passed over the console due to the vastly superior marketing of the NES or, well, the awesome-ness of Super Mario Bros.

A Trip Down Memory Lane to Remember the Best of the NES

There's a lot of PC Engine pages out there, and if you really wanted to read the same old history with the same old pics you'd probably have stopped there and never found this page. I'd rather go over some other stuff, and to that end I present to you 101 Secrets of the PC Engine! Irreverent trivia and technical tidbits tonight!

From Nintendo to XBox and More

Five of the Classics for the Nintendo NES System Remembered and Reviewed

Some of you reading this are going to remember weekends and summer vacations spent in front of the living room TV with the clickity-clack of your Super NES controller buttons firing away as you fought desperately against the friend sitting next to you, the insults that your mother never quite understood flying between you, and the victory slam of your fist in the air accompanying the shouts of superior skills. Others may remember lining up a string of quarters along the top of the machine at the arcade you passed on your way home from school, and willing any skillful challenger to step into the ring.

The punches, the kicks, the body slams... does anything quiet compare to the thrill of old school wrestling? The answer is no, and if you answer was "yes lots of things" then I would recommend you move along to another article (preferably one of my own).

In 1991, a storm swept over the international arcade scene.  Street Fighter II swept the world, invigorating the arcade scene, determine the future of the ongoing home console war, and bringing a small genre fully into the public eye.  Much like Doom's effect on the First Person Shooter, Street Fighter 2 was followed by a legion of knock offs and clones, some mere travesties, and some with innovative and original ideas that would go on to further define the 2D VS. Fighter genre.