Look, I need to establish my credentials upfront – I’ve been playing Street Fighter II since it hit arcades in 1991. I spent quarters I should have been using for lunch. I practiced dragon punches until I could do them blindfolded. I learned frame data before I knew what frame data was called. So when the Balding Gamer crew started debating our SNES rankings, I came prepared with tournament footage, win-rate statistics, and a seventeen-page…
Coming to Donkey Kong Country without 1994 context means I missed the “holy crap look at these graphics” moment that…
Coming to retro gaming without childhood nostalgia means I judge games purely on how they play today, not how…
Super Mario Kart nearly didn’t make our SNES rankings list because Joe called it “just a racing game with shells.”…
I need to confess something upfront – I nearly quit the Balding Gamer crew over Earthbound’s placement on our SNES…
Right, full disclosure – I spent most of the 90s playing Sensible World of Soccer and Speedball 2 on my…
I need to be upfront about something – I’m a Sega devotee. Always have been. Master System, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast.…
Right, I need to get something out of the way immediately – I’m an Amiga guy. Always have been. Grew…
I came to Chrono Trigger embarrassingly late. No childhood nostalgia clouding my judgment, no rose-tinted memories of Christmas morning 1995.…
We need to tell you something unprecedented happened during our SNES rankings debate. After three weeks of arguments about Chrono…
Look, ranking the ten best SNES games nearly ended friendships. Carl had to mediate arguments that got genuinely heated. Joe…
