What if Pong featured American Gladiators-esque characters?
Groundbreaking? No. Fun? Yes!
New developers and a new era, but same old Aleste, in a good way.
Does anyone want to get me a Super Hang-on arcade cabinet and also a place to put it?
Wario's first go of things as a protagonist is only part of the Super Mario Land series because he hadn't yet proven he didn't need the connection.
Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West is available now, and I spoke to the author about it and JRPGs.
When is pretty good not good enough for some?
"Rod Land" is a thing you can name a video game, yes.
A Wario and Bomberman crossover event that made a whole lot of sense for everyone involved.
Metal Gear? On the Game Boy Color!?
A Super Famicom-exclusive game that used the system's mouse peripheral, where Wario stars as a plane-riding villain.
A cross between revisiting a world and characters you already know with planted seeds that wouldn't begin to sprout for some time yet.