New blog post! Let's see what Atari's new Yars Rising is all about ..read more

Are there some old games that you just never really…”got?” I mean, for classic gamers, of course we can’t all be experts at every single game (oh really? You’re a world champion at Donkey Kong and Tranquilizer Gun and Digger and ..read more

New blog post! Let's visit Vintage Vault Arcade in Mukwanago, Wisconsin ..read more

New blog post! Will we ever see Nintendo's Popeye again? I'm kinda worried ..read more

This year’s Metroid Marathon, the annual month-long livestreaming event, is happening a month early this year! Due to some scheduling issues, the marathon is taking place in September instead of October — meaning it’s already underway! Also this year, the ..read more

At last! A project I started back in 2021 and have picked away at little by little is finally finished, and I’m so excited to show it off to you now! I give you…Laser Game SuperHyper! LGSH was born out of my unabashed love for laserdisc arcade games which I have babbled about ad nauseum over the years; specifically, my want — no, my need, my burning desire — to play them in an arcade-style format, thus bringing my Golden Age arcade nostalgia just a bit more into my current reality. If you read issue 4 of the Retro Game SuperHyper fanzine (and if you haven’t, why the heck not?!), you saw my pr ..read more

Tim Lapetino is the author of one of my absolute favorite video game art/history books, Art of Atari (read my effusive post about that book in the link). Announced on Pac-Man’s 40th birthday (under the tentative name 40 Years of Waka-Waka), his and Arjan Terpstra’s follow-up project, Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon, was published a little over two years ago by Cook & Becker, purveyors of luxurious video game-based art books and prints. Though I pre-ordered it and received it upon its release, due to my regrettable lack of free time it’s only been just recently that I have finally had a chance to ..read more

As I wrote in a post this past summer, Taito is releasing the Taito LD Game Collection in Japan later this year, including HD remasters of their three animated laserdisc arcade classics Time Gal, Ninja Hayate, and Space Battleship Yamato. It was also noted that the collector’s edition would include a serial code for a bonus game, called Time Gal Reverse. But what is it? Actually, the kana for this bonus game is タイムギャル リバース, or “Taimu Gyaru Ribaasu,” which auto-translation services (*cough*GoogleTranslate*cough*) have been translating as “Time Gal Reverse.” Based on this title, I presumed this ..read more

Today is Retro Game SuperHyper’s 7th birthday! Woohoo! It has admittedly been a very light year for the blog — I think this is only my 10th post of 2023. I am constantly thinking about posts to make and things to talk about, but my life’s schedule this year has been absolutely packed full and exhausting, and the blog is suffering for it. However, I have been keeping busy in other ways — I’ve been doing plenty of gaming, and livestreaming over on Twitch and occasionally Kick too! Please follow me on those platforms for retro gaming hangs! In fact, that leads into the events of tonight, October ..read more

The Metroid Database — the website I started in 1996 — is beginning its annual Metroid Marathon today, and for the first time, I am making my return to the MDb to participate! With this being the anniversary month of the MDb (launched on October 16, 1996), each October they do a marathon in which they livestream every game in the Metroid series. With the franchise now totaling 14 games, and some of them requiring quite a few hours to complete, that provides plenty of daily content to last throughout the month. This year, they have graciously invited me to be a part of it, and I am honored to h ..read more