A random afternoon in 1995, four bargain-bin SNES games from Sears, and a whole lot of nostalgia. Retro WedNESday revisits Super Off Road: The Baja, a modest but enjoyable desert racer with truck upgrades, pixelated pedestrians, and plenty of personality.
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Did Home Improvement need a video game? Absolutely not. But somebody made one anyway, complete with Tim Taylor, stolen power tools, mechanical dinosaurs and enough terrible platforming to make me quit on the first level. Welcome back to Retro WedNESday.
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The Lion King looks innocent enough. Then Level 2 introduces precision jumps, hippo asses, monkey puzzles and one absolutely infuriating ostrich. I made it through Aladdin just fine. Simba broke me before I even reached Level 3.
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Harry Du Bois wakes up with no memory of who he was and gets the chance to decide who he'll become. Disco Elysium offers a strange picture of the fresh start many of us wish we could have—but 2 Corinthians 5:17 promises something better than forgetting the past.
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I got Donkey Kong Country at launch after the hype VHS and it became my Thanksgiving game for years after. Thirty years later it's still one of the best games ever made.
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This week, on Retro WedNESday #10, we're looking back at Super Mario Bros. 2. This is the weird one in the NES Mario trilogy, and there's a strange reason why. Princess Peach's float, the Doki Doki Panic origin, and why I still love it.
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A Tips and Tricks magazine guide in 2000 introduced me to Harvest Moon 64 and I never fully recovered. The Sunday Sermon looks at what Ecclesiastes 3 has to say about a game built entirely on seasons.
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Hades is a game about dying over and over. The Sunday Sermon looks at what Zagreus's story says about Romans 5:3-4 and what happens when you refuse to stay down.
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Top Gear on SNES was my first console racing game and one of the best multiplayer experiences of my childhood. Simple, fast, and still a blast. Here's why it holds up.
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Titan Quest is one of my all-time favorites, and it's part of why this site exists. The PS4 version has real problems, but the game itself is the greatest ARPG ever made.
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Super Mario Bros. is the first game I ever played and my first gaming memory. This week's Retro WedNESday game review looks back on the all-time classic. Forty years later it's still just as fun as it ever was. Some things don't need improving.
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Mouse P.I. For Hire is exactly the kind of game the industry used to make before everything had to be a platform. Gorgeous visuals, a genuinely funny noir story, and the heart of a PS3-era gem.
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Retro WedNESday finally features an actual NES game. Gun.Smoke swaps the spaceships for cowboys and the result is one of Capcom's best early shooters. Here's why it still holds up.
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Ship combat is the heart of Black Flag, and the Jackdaw is only as good as what you've put into it. Here's the upgrade order that actually matters and where to farm the resources to get there.
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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launches July 9, 2026 with a full visual overhaul, reworked combat and stealth, new Jackdaw customization, additional story content, and enhanced naval combat.
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007 First Light gets a new Rules of Spycraft trailer from IO Interactive showing off stealth, gadgets, combat, and the Tactical Simulation replay mode ahead of its May 27 launch.
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One course, not many modes, but hundreds of hours played. Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics is a simple N64 golf game that earns its legacy through memories as much as gameplay. Read the review in the third installment of Retro WedNESday!
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WWE 2K26 Ringside Pass Season 2 adds Demolition, Kelly Kelly, an updated Oba Femi Persona, three Borderlands wasteland Personas, and a stack of new CAS parts and moves.
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WrestleMania week calls for a look back at the best wrestling game ever made. WWF WrestleMania 2000 brought the AKI engine to the WWF roster and nothing in the genre has topped it since.
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Harvest Moon 64 is one of my all-time favorites. A year of waiting for it, a Christmas surprise, and a farming sim that somehow turned me into a real-life gardener. Here's why it still holds up.
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