Yes, this is a retro video game publication, but I find plenty of time for new stuff, too.
The best of the games I played for the first time in 2024, that weren't from 2024.
If you've never played a beat 'em up with a baby riding mechanized power armor delivering jumping piledrivers to space ninjas, then you've never played Captain Commando.
The actual first game in the Shining series was a first-person dungeon crawler filled with budget-conscious design decisions.
Re-releasing Meteos, a Nintendo DS game that relied on the stylus to work as well as it did, would be tough. But there's one possible way.
Or, Super Shell Monsters Story. Either way, this role-playing game from Birthday and Hudson never made its way out of Japan, at least not officially.
Snow Bros. is back, in 3D, and even developed by Toaplan's successor studio.
Mindware's latest game is a more expansive take on the gameplay concepts introduced in 2023's D Life.
The Data East arcade platformer featuring a yo-yo, a captured girlfriend, and a treasure map.
A Tetris variant you won't find in Tetris Forever, despite Tetris' creator himself working on it.
Or, Rush 'n' Fire Megadas. Either way, it's an oddball Kenji Eno joint.
