Monday, June 17 2013

Willy Moon: Here’s Willy Moon

By Brice Ezell

Even if the Elvis by way of trip-hop premise of Here’s Willy Moon is a gimmick, who cares when it’s this fun?

Monday, June 3 2013

Hercules and Love Affair: DJ Kicks

By Darryl G. Wright

This record's vintage house goes on so intolerably long that you become nostalgic for the present.

Monday, August 8 2011

‘Retromania’: You’d Throw It Against the Wall If You Weren’t So Immersed in It

By Timothy Gabriele

Retromania is about the anxiety of influence; how our present moment is feeding into it, how it emerged framed as a historical inevitability, and how its necrotic collateral is any futurism that may have the audacity to disregard the past.

Wednesday, May 26 2010

You Say Apocalypse, I Say Retro Chic

By G. Christopher Williams

Much like telling an erotic story within a Victorian backdrop seems ever so sexy, human depravity juxtaposed against a seemingly golden age of good, moral values is darkly comic and that much more disturbing.

Monday, April 26 2010

3D Dot Game Heroes - “The Hero Your Hero Could Be”

By Mike Schiller

Tuesday, May 13 2008

Ming & Ping: Causeway Army

By Mike Schiller

Finding a synth-pop CD with this much polish and straight-up style feels like an utter breath of fresh air.

Tuesday, April 22 2008

Kamera: Resurrection

By Mike Schiller

Kamera is as pure a retro throwback as you may ever find.

Thursday, January 17 2008

Contra 4

By Arun Subramanian

Games like Contra presented a sort of difficulty that, while extremely demanding, was what offered those games longevity to begin with.

Friday, October 19 2007

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

By Cole Stryker

Much more than a gimmick, the controls of Metroid Prime: Corruption eventually gel into the definitive FPS experience.

Monday, September 17 2007

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

By Arun Subramanian

Metroid has always been akin to waking up in the eye of a storm.