Blaster Master — A Tank, A Frog, and No Mercy
Side-scrolling tank exploration meets top-down dungeon crawling.
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Beyond Zelda — NES RPGs You Forgot Existed
The NES had a deeper RPG bench than its reputation suggests.
A Complete Run: Collecting Animerica from Issue #1
Why a full magazine run is a month-by-month time capsule of fandom.
Kid Icarus — Pit's Brutal Climb
Metroid's sibling sent an angel on a punishing climb.
SpaceDB: Querying a Million Space Objects
A local, queryable database of near-Earth objects and asteroids.
Faxanadu — The Moody Action-RPG in the World Tree
Hudson and Falcom's atmospheric platform-RPG.
Final Fantasy — The Gamble That Named a Franchise
Square's 'last' game that saved the studio and brought JRPGs west.
Double Dragon — The Brawler That Started It All
Billy Lee, Abobo, and the birth of the beat-'em-up boom.
Running a Modern BBS with ENiGMA½ and Docker
A real bulletin board system, containerized, as part of FlameNet.
Ghosts 'n Goblins — Cruelty as a Design Philosophy
Arthur, his armor, his underwear, and your shattered patience.