Category Archives: Retro Games

Cover Art: Metal Gear Solid (Game Boy Color)

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.

With all the MGS talk, we thought it would be cool to feature the cover art of Metal Gear Solid for Nintendo’s Game Boy Color. Under guidance from Hideo Kojima & his staff, the game was developed by TOSE, who are … [ Read More... ]

Watch this high speed video show the creation of a “Megaropolis” in SimCity SNES

SimCity Megaropolis SNES

I came across this video while looking up some SimCity info a couple weeks back. It’s a cool video that shows you the process of building a Megalopolis (Megaropolis) in SimCity on the SNES. The video is mostly played at 3000% speed of the gameplay. That combined with the awesome music playing makes this quite entertaining. The music sounds like some crazy techno, cyberpunk music but is actually the … [ Read More... ]

Cover Art: DuckTales (NES)

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.

What better time to showcase the cover art of the NES classic DuckTales. Hilariously, in Japan it’s called “Naughty Ducks Dream Adventures.” DuckTales was developed by Capcom and released in 1989 for the NES followed by a 1990 release on … [ Read More... ]

Capcom announced Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara at PAX East

Capcom Dungeons & Dragons Chronicles of Mystara PAX East 4

As many should know, Capcom has an epic history with side scrolling beat’em ups (brawlers). Although their most well known beat’em up is Final Fight they also made a pair of Dungeons & Dragons games which included all the frills you could want plus RPG elements. Originally arcade games, they were only ported for home play in a collection released in Japan on the Sega Saturn and on PC in … [ Read More... ]