Gradius — Build Your Ship, Bar by Bar
Konami's seminal shmup and its iconic power-up meter....
Metroid — Alone on Zebes
Atmospheric isolation, nonlinear exploration, and a famous reveal....
Licensed to Thrill (or Kill) — NES Movie & TV Tie-Ins
Which way it landed came down to who made it, not whose face was on the box....
Bubble Bobble — Two Dragons, A Hundred Rooms
Trap, pop, and chase the true ending with a friend....
Super Mario Bros. 2 — The Beautiful Mistake
Pluck a vegetable, float as Peach, and meet the oddest Mario....
Orbital Mechanics in Julia: Solving Kepler's Equation
Recovering the true anomaly from an orbit, in a few lines of Julia....