The year is 1998 and I am a senior in High School, and instead of going to school on a daily bases I stayed home leveling my characters up. It got so ridiculous that I would make all my characters thieves and when it got to a scenario battle they would be so strong I would just pick away and steal pieces of there armor before killing the enemies on the battle field. For me this is the best tactics type game I have played. Another... 

Capcom used to make some of the most kickass beat-em ups in the arcade. What I mean by beat-em up is that you have a side-scrolling landscape, a collective of heroes and three buttons for punch, kick and jump – the rest is up to you and three other gamers to hash out. While games like Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and Dungeons and Dragons – Tower of Doom gave you cool moves and combos, Shadow over Mystara did you one better and... 

When I was a young gamer (showing my age here) the arcades were nothing like they were during the high times of the 90’s etc. Instead of big fighters like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat etc. there were games like Kung Fu Master, Galaxxian, Galaga and Frogger. Back then you could be worshiped by little kids like myself as a god-gamer if you could flip the score on Defender etc. Well one guy in our local arcade was a god, I ... 

Here is a game that took hours of my life, but I do not regret a moment of it; staying home from school doing the squat challenge and performing CPR on a NPR to get an item. The game really takes off when you meet Cid and jump in his airship, you could then travel anywhere in the world of Final Fantasy 7. A very exciting time in the game is when your materia maxes out and another piece of the same type is born. Another fun part... 

A gem of yesteryear, Alisia Dragoon is one of the greatest action games ever to have graced the Genesis.  You are a sorceress named Alisia, who has the ability to conjure lightning to kill your foes.  But what made this game unique was the ability to call out pets to aid you in battle.  As the game progressed you would find power ups to level up your pets and lightning ability.  My favorite pet I dubbed the “Thunder... 

Super Mario 3 really showed what the NES could do. I remember seeing Super Mario 3 and saying wow, games can’t look any better then this. We now know this is not the case but before Super Mario 3, nothing looked like it before. The backgrounds and the sound were much better quality then any game pre-dating it. You could tell that Nintendo put a lot of time into this game. There was nothing better graphically after this game. With... 

Before the aspect of super emo romance stories and 5 minute long cinemas of summons, Final Fantasy was king of the standard, simple RPGs. My first experience with the legendary Squaresoft franchise came in the shape of a Nintendo cartridge of Final Fantasy. Having been a hardcore RPG player at the time, I expected the little game to be a fun distraction but it turned out to be one of my favorite RPGs of the time. Final Fantasy had... 

Probably the most popular shooter to ever grace the arcades, Galaga was unlike Galaxxian, Defender and other shooters due to the fact that EVERYONE played it. I am not sure what the draw was for non-gamers to play the hell out of this shooter but if people weren’t on Pacman challenging their girlfriend, they were on Galaga getting decimated by a kamikaze killer bee or blue beetle ship. If not for the fun aspect, I cannot offer... 

When people used to ask me what game I thought was the greatest RPG that I have ever experienced, I would not hesitate to say Panzer Dragoon Saga. The problem with this claim is that only a few people who have experienced the game in its entirety would agree. Cursed to be presented on a platform that struggled horribly with full motion video (the Sega Saturn), many gamers couldn’t get past the ugly intro and midgame cinemas therefore... 

Every once in a while an unknown game goes unnoticed but turns out to be such a true gem. Slap Happy Rhythm Busters was one such title that has come and gone, left on the dusty shelves of the past. SHRB was a cel-shaded polygonal fighter on a 2D plane. Yeah yeah we’ve all seen that, but what made this game unique is the fact that there was a rhythmical element to the game where you type out your combos in a rhythm. At first glance...