Ninja Gaiden — Cinematic and Cruel
The game that told a movie's story and broke a thousand controllers.
Paul Hitt
Re-creating AOL Instant Messenger for Vintage Clients
Sign a 20-year-old AIM client in and watch the buddy list come alive.
Disney's DuckTales — That Moon Theme
Capcom + Disney + Scrooge's pogo cane = an all-timer.
Run-and-Gun — The NES Action & Shooter Shelf
If you wanted to shoot things, the NES had options.
Mega Man 2 — The One That Made the Blue Bomber
Eight Robot Masters, a perfect weakness loop, and that soundtrack.
Life Force — Two Players, Into the Beast
The co-op Gradius spin-off that flew through a living creature.
Paperboy — Deliver, Dodge, and Smash a Window
The arcade oddity where the route is the whole game.
Anime Insider — Inside 2000s Anime Fandom
Wizard's anime magazine for the Toonami and DVD-boom era.
Mega Man 3 — Proto Man, Rush, and the Slide
The sequel that added a dog, a rival, and one essential move.
AstroNN + TensorFlow on Apple Silicon: A Setup That Works
Getting deep-learning astronomy tooling running on an M-series Mac.