Category Archives: Retro Games

Cover Art: Wipeout (Playstation)

Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy. 

The first Wipeout game was developed by Psygnosis, whom later got renamed to Studio Liverpool when Sony bought them as a first party game developer for their thriving Playstation console. Despite being an English developed game, it has a very futuristic, Japanese … [ Read More... ]

Nintendo Announces New Games & More for Wii U (Mario! Zelda!)

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Nintendo has really gotten better at communicating with its fans.  For over a year now Nintendo has been delivering video presentations, known as Nintendo Direct, showing off upcoming software and hardware releases. In North America these videos are generally presented by NOA president Reggie Fils-Aime, but for some larger announcements Nintendo’s head honcho Satoru Iwata would step in. For example, Iwata was the presenter when the final Wii [ Read More... ]

Skrillex’s Video Game: Skrillex Quest

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This is not the newest game, but it’s free. I know thats good news for you cheap gamers out there. It’s also not bad at all. EDM superstar Skrillex has taken the world by storm with distorted take on the dance music subgenre, dubstep. He’s also got a video game. Cheesy, retro and crappy by design,  Skrillex Quest takes you on a Legend of Zelda style adventure to save the … [ Read More... ]

Cover Art: Heretic (PC)

Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy. 

From the Publisher of DOOM” and a rating of “Violence“. Those were selling points in 1994. While those things were both true, the Raven Software developed Heretic certainly didn’t need to rely on those things.

Heretic Box Cover Art DOS

Heretic is a fantasy … [ Read More... ]