I came to Super Mario 64 late, which probably gave me an unfair advantage in understanding it. Most people who grew up with this game have it wrapped up in nostalgia – their first experience with 3D gaming, their first memories of the N64. I first played it…

I remember the exact moment I realized what Ocarina of Time was doing, and it wasn’t when I first booted it up. It was about three hours in, standing in the Lost Woods after figuring out the path wasn’t random but actually followed specific musical cues, realizing that…

Look, ranking the ten best N64 games nearly ended friendships again. Carl had to mediate arguments that got genuinely heated. Joe kept trying to downrank everything because he’s still bitter about the Genesis not getting these games. Tim discovered the N64 late and started making fresh-perspective arguments that…

My buddy Mike showed up at my place last weekend with this battered Saturn console he’d rescued from an estate sale, and man, watching him fire up Guardian Heroes on my basement CRT brought back all these memories of why Sega’s weird dual-CPU machine deserved so much better…