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April 1st, 2019It's the Rad Voice Dads of Gaming that are coming in hot with their Retro Replay quasi-lets-play hangout series. With Troy Baker and Nolan North goofing off with old-school video games, you can't help but have the craziest of times. These guys have had voices in most of your current favorite titles, such as Uncharted, The Last of Us,...
March 18th, 2019You can thank the fine folks at Dorkly for putting together this rad Best-Of video with their tastiest Mega Man shorts just this past weekend! Sure, I had some super interesting but kind of fact-heavy video ready for you but when my notification hit and it was Mega Man, I lost it! Check this and more out over at Dorkly, but don't...
January 15th, 2019FMV games, aka Full Motion Video, started getting somewhat popular back in the late eighties, early nineties. With people wanting to explore the space of video games a bit more, we saw a unique upcropping before disappearing for quite awhile. A resurgence started taking place and Netflix, of all places, brought that into their Black...
December 3rd, 2018It's been over 40 years since the Atari gaming system first debuted and kicked off the golden era of home gaming, and still it's one of the most recognizable names in the video game universe...
The Art of Atari is an incredible book that deep-dives into the designs and iconography that made Atari such an indelible part of the genesis of...
August 30th, 2018When you think of the most iconic first person shooters ever made, there aren't many that come to mind more often than ID Software's 1993 classic, DOOM. Since the game's initial release, the DOOM legacy has included several other video games (sequels, remakes and "clones"), comic books, novels, and a 2005 live-action film.
Along...
August 20th, 2018It's one of the most beloved games of the early home console era: Space Invaders! For those retro fans out there, Slate has some tips here to get your games going strong to defeat the one and only O.G. Invaders... they've even got the name right there in the title!
And while you're aiming for that sick high score, you can...
April 30th, 2018I've mentioned it in articles in the past, but the Super Nintendo era of games is probably my favorite, and many argue one of the best generations for gaming ever. However, there is a game that doesn't always get talked about in the same conversations as these 16-bit Titans, and I think it should be: and that's the third installment in...
March 15th, 2018It is so easy for me to get caught up in nostalgia as I reminisce about some of my favorite eras in gaming. I talk often of the Super Nintendo era, as many of my favorite games were featured on Nintendo's SNES.
But a system that is almost as near and dear to my heart, is the Sega Genesis - with my favorites including Streets of Rage,...
August 30th, 2017This past June, everyone’s FAVORITE box-crushing Bandicoot spun his cooky self back into our living rooms!
For the first time since the game’s initial release in 1996, Crash Bandicoot was re-released for Playstation 4 users in a three-game collection called the, “N.Sane Trilogy.”
In honor of Crash's return, Loot Gaming's...