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Revisiting Childhood with Star Wars on Game Boy
Star Wars has a lot of great, memorable games that bring the exciting saga to new places. The Game Boy port of the NES game however leaves a bit to be desired
End 2020 on a High Note with Upbeat Quarantine Simulator “Beyond Your Window”
Wind down from 2020 with the most 2020 game ever: an indie visual novel about isolation, human connection, and people watching from your bedroom window.
The Firemen: A Christmas Video Game
Yuletide logs should be kept in the fireplace. In the Firemen however, the fire is a six-story building, and you have to rescue Christmas. Unfortunately it isn’t always nearly that exciting.
The Perfect Airship
In preparation for Black Skylands lets talk a bit about some of the best airships RPGs have to offer.
Rise to Ruins: A Relaxing Retro Time
Rise to Ruins is a RTS that blends more than one type of game into its gameplay. There’s also something endearingly calm and minimal about it.
Escapism in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Perhaps the most final of the Final Fantasy titles, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance questions the reality of not just its characters, but also that of its players.
You Play the Girl: Decoding the Mysterious PAGAN Trilogy
Oleander Garden’s PAGAN trilogy explores dead MMO’s and eerie nightmare cities, but also opens up a discourse on gaming, queerness, and how the two can meet to explore identity.
The Stellar Core of Tezuka’s Stars in Astro Boy: Omega Factor
Anime adaptations are a tough sell in games, especially for beloved franchises. Astro Boy: Omega Factor manages to fly past the pitfalls and do justice to its historic legacy.
We’re Back!
Welcome to Retroware! We’ve got a little bit of the old, a little bit of the new, and a fresh direction we’re taking the site.
10th Annual NES Marathon Supporting Feeding America
For the past decade, the NES Marathon has raised money for children’s hospitals. This year they are putting those efforts to making sure people stay fed by benefitting Feeding America