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Once Upon a Time

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We go back to the titles that defined an era and play them now, with no easy nostalgia: what still holds up, what time has worn away, and why some thirty year old ideas still work.

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The legend of Zelda Collector's Edition, the definitive legendary edition!

Hyrule is a land of dreams and exploits, a world where anything is possible and the boundary between Good and Evil is traced by the weary but never surrendering shuffle of boots worn by warriors ready to return to life once more, if necessary.

by Simon Larocca

The Tower of Shadows

When I was little, it really didn’t take much to have fun: inventing claustrophobic dungeons with traps and monsters in the shadows was easy; the important thing was playing together, and with a little imagination you could create incredible worlds. My friends and I, scraped knees

by Simon Larocca

Animal Crossing: Zen Fun and Gardens!

I still remember it as if it were yesterday, the clatter of the train that took me to the village, the final destination of my video game outing.

by Simon Larocca

Advance Wars 2 - Black Hole Rising

The clashes between opposing intellectual properties from development and production houses, yet similar in content and themes, are now an everyday occurrence: just think of The Last of Us and the unfortunate (but rather noteworthy) Days Gone, or, going a little further back in time, we cannot forget the epic battle of lightning-fast dashes and brick-smashing jumps between Sonic and Mario, aided by his mustachioed brother Luigi. And still Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, for example: titles that are similar in category and yet present significant differences, just like Fire Emblem and Advance Wars, often grouped together in reviews by industry insiders, and yet they are diametrically opposed worlds: after careful reflection I believe, from my very personal point of view, that the purely strategic aspect of Advance Wars stands out a little more compared to its counterpart, but let’s proceed in order.

by Simon Larocca

Missile Command War Games

I don’t think I’m risking the stake for heresy if I say that Atari was perhaps the first video game brand capable of bringing the adrenaline of arcade titles into our homes, until the early Eighties relegated to the inside of heavy, cumbersome,

by Simon Larocca

Fire Emblem: love, glory and great battles

Nintendo has always created legends.

by Simon Larocca

Golden Sun 2! From Foes to Heroes.

As a rule, the period spanning the late Eighties and the entire following decade is considered the golden age of JRPGs, the “Japanese-style” role-playing games as they are commonly known around here. Peculiar titles that make turn-based combat their main selling point and, almost without exception, random encounters.

by Simon Larocca

SPECIAL - KINGS OF THE BEACH

KINGS OF THE BEACH

by Mauro Corbetta

NES Edition, when MrN invented eSports!

An emotional bond transcends time, erases space, and tears down every barrier. What connects two people, usually, withstands any attempt at oblivion: the stronger the love that binds them, growing in their hearts day after day, the more intense the memory becomes whenever it resurfaces in everyday life.

by Simon Larocca

FF Tactics Advance! Strategy and Refinement in Final Fantasy

The most famous legend in role-playing video games of all time is probably the one we all know: Hironobu Sakaguchi gave the title Final Fantasy to his latest videogame effort because he intended to stop creating pixel dreams

by Simon Larocca

MS-DOS Special - Screamer

By Antonio Farina – Graffiti (now Milestone) (1995) – MS-DOS

by Mauro Corbetta

Zelda: A Link to the Past, when the past is tied to the future!

I don’t know about you, but I’ve often imagined what life in Hyrule would be like. You know what I mean? A vast land, made up of countless continents, with all kinds of creatures and unexplored places hidden in plain

by Simon Larocca

Golden Sun Between Classicism and Innovation When There Is Alchemy

Magic in role-playing games is perhaps the most important element: indispensable for depicting the reference world at its best, both a blessing and a curse, used to stage spectacular battles and cast heroes into the clutches of relentless enemies.

by Simon Larocca

40 Winks: goodnight and dream platformer

For those of us who were born and raised on classic Christmas movies, masterpieces like A Christmas Carol and prickly, disillusioned characters like the misanthropic Scrooge belong to our childhood just as much as “Trading Places” belongs to Christmas Eve.

by Simon Larocca

The Terminator

You can’t talk about Terminator without hearing the film’s rhythmic drumming theme in your head, as dark as it is propulsive in its evocative crescendo.

by Simon Larocca

Eternal Champions, Eternal in Every Sense

In my memory, steeped in recollections, the opening screen of Eternal Champions still stands there, proud and combative, just like the characters who would soon step into those evocative arenas to fight. Warriors and gladiators, indomitable female fighters

by Simon Larocca

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker

Talking about Moonwalker for me means hopping into a DeLorean and traveling back in time, finding a chest packed full of bittersweet memories: adolescence was just around the corner and video games kept me company every afternoon after school, just as pop music did, cradling dreams and carrying them away.

by Simon Larocca

Dino Crisis 2: Natural Selection According to Capcom!

Capcom likes to surprise its audience, and that’s certainly not something we’re discovering today. It terrified us by throwing us into Raccoon City in Resident Evil, sent us into dusty streets with a red headband and plenty of punches to throw in Street Fighter, and loaded us with epic scale by giving us a gun and a sword to annihilate ever more gigantic demons in Devil May Cry. So when disturbing images of blood-soaked flesh and razor-sharp jaws began spreading through videogame magazines with the advertising tagline “You are food,” we all understood that Capcom was up to something big: Dino Crisis immediately became a must-play, with its successful mix of action and exploration, in effect a “Resident Evil with dinosaurs,” reductive but effective.

by Simon Larocca