Retro Game of the Week – Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1990)

For those of us who remember well the 1980s, the phenomenally endowed Elvira – the campy TV persona of Cassandra Peterson – was and is much loved. Accolade tapped into this cult following with the 1990 release of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, a horror-themed PC adventure game with RPG elements. The developer was the aptly named HorrorSoft…

The Best Classic Board Games – Escape From Atlantis (1986)

The best version of Survive! was never published by Parker Brothers at all, and came four years later. That game was the 1986 classic, Escape From Atlantis, by Waddington-Saunders, the same folks who gave us Land Grab and Ratrace…

The Best Classic Board Games: This Game Is Bonkers!

Bonkers! was actually titled, “This Game Is Bonkers!” and it certainly was. True to form, Bonkers! would go on to be another classic childhood memory for many gamers…

The Top Ten TurboGrafx-16 HuCard Games

When gamers look back at the heyday of the Genesis/NES wars, NEC’s TurboGrafx-16 is often overlooked. That’s a darn shame – as big a shame today as it was back in the 1990s, as the TurboGrafx video game system had some quality games that are still fun to play today. Just for kicks and giggles, here are what I consider the Top 10 huCard (in no particular order) games for this forgotten system.

TurboGrafx-16 Failure Due to Box Art Disparity?

The following blog article gives such an interesting argument on why the TurboGrafx-16 failed that I needed to share it! Back in the early 1990s, the Internet was barely born and hadn’t been commercialized yet, so you had to depend on good, old print media to inform you about the latest video games. This media [...]